[LAUNCHED] Figma Slides custom templates should be available on all paid plans

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June 26, 2024
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Creating custom templates in Figma Slides is only available on the Organization and Enterprise plans per the Figma Learn article. This is a basic feature of any presentation design software, even for decks designed entirely by individuals.

As much as I would love to move our agency away from Google and towards Figma Slides for our pitch decks, this will be a non-starter without this feature. We can’t justify the huge cost increase when no other Organization plan features are relevant to us.

Please consider ungating this from the high-cost plans.

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Miles_Kemp

I agree. Should be able to publish Slides templates on pro plan.

Max34

Just as I thought Figma slides would finally put all the horrible presentation software to rest, this basic problem pops up. you could limit the amount of templates depending on the plan but having the ability to create them should be the absolute minimum.

Jack_Wiese1

This really slows down my process and makes me not want to use Figma Slides, despite its other great features. Now I have to spend a good amount of time recreating a branded proposal deck every time I need to make a deck, time that would be better spent getting the deck in the clients hand sooner.

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Carlos_Taborda

Fully agree with this. Figma slides is useless unless we can edit templates. Pretty, but less productive than just excel, which I have for free.

Kaitie_Chambers

Figmate

Hi everyone! Kaitie here as an Advocate from Figma. Thank you all for your excitement for Slides and for this helpful feedback.

I wanted to jump into the thread to share that we intend to make custom templates in Slides available on Pro! We wanted to get this functionality in users’ hands ASAP and to do that we had to mirror how we built this for FigJam, where custom templates are on Organization and Enterprise plans. We don’t have a concrete timeline yet, so stay tuned for updates here, and please keep your feedback coming about Slides.

Greg_VilleneuveAuthor

Wooohoo, thanks @Kaitie_Chambers !! Looking forward to diving fully once that is enabled. 😀

Peter_Bishop

New Participant

That is great to hear Kaitie and a great example of Figma listening to the community. We’re excited over here to finally have something to kick powerpoint out the door once and for all.

ToyFight_Hello

Agreed, it’s hard to justify spending time on this tool if I can’t create templates for my organisation. That was the entire point, and I expected this feature to be available even for testing in the Beta version – it’s essential when transitioning from templated files in other applications. We already have templated files within Figma that we use as slides, which is how we’ve created our presentations for clients and internal meetings. This feature needs to be enabled for me to justify the additional costs associated with adopting this software, and until then, I cannot afford to spend time in the tool in case it turns out to be a waste.

Michael_McCann

Hi Katie! Do you have an updated ETA for when custom slide templates will be available for Pro plans? This is currently blocking our team’s adoption of the product.