Canva Create 2025 is officially underway, and if you’re a small business owner who relies on Canva to stay visible, consistent, and organized, this is the day to pay attention.
This year’s event is once again being held in Los Angeles, and Canva just unveiled a massive lineup of more than 40 new features, all designed to help you work faster, look more polished, and (finally) keep everything in one place.
If you’re not familiar, Canva Create is Canva’s biggest product event of the year, where they introduce their most impactful new features and share their vision for the future of creative work. The 2025 theme is “Uncharted,” and it’s all about stepping outside the box and reimagining how you create, collaborate, and manage content across your business.
In this post, I’m highlighting some of the most useful releases specifically for small business owners… things that will help you save time, stay consistent with your brand, and simplify your Canva workflow.
And in the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing tutorial videos to walk you through some of the most valuable new features—especially the ones that make content creation easier and more efficient.
The All-In-One Visual Suite (And Why It’s a Big Deal for Staying Organized in Canva)
This is a feature that’s been at the top of many wish lists for a long time, and I think a lot of Canva users are going to be really happy to see it finally roll out. The ability to include multiple design dimensions in a single file has been requested for years, and it’s easy to see why, because it addresses one of the biggest friction points when trying to stay organized inside Canva.
If you’ve ever had to juggle multiple Canva files just to get one project out the door, this update might be your favourite yet.
With the new All-In-One Visual Suite, you can now combine different design types and page sizes (like social posts, spreadsheets, and whiteboards) into a single Canva design file.
Here’s what that looks like in practice:
- Your Instagram square, Story graphic, and Pinterest Pin? All in one design.
- A content calendar spreadsheet to track your posts? Add it right into the same file.
- A presentation slide deck or marketing document? You can embed that too.
Instead of having to name and store four or five different files for every campaign or project (and then remember where you put each one), you can group everything into one organized, tidy home. One file. One shareable link. One place to find all the pieces of your project.
From an organization standpoint, this is a major shift. You no longer need to create:
- A folder just to hold three different versions of a single campaign
- Workarounds like duplicating files or linking between designs
- Separate files for content planning vs. content creation
You’ll be able to create self-contained, multi-format hubs, so each client, campaign, or product has a single file with everything it needs.
If you’re someone who’s been trying to stay more organized in Canva (or maybe just feeling overwhelmed every time you open your homepage), this feature is going to make a big difference. It offers a much more streamlined and thoughtful way to manage your content, and I think it’s going to quickly become a new favourite for anyone managing multiple types of designs.
Canva Code: Bring Interactive Tools to Life, No Coding Needed
Next to the All-In-One Visual Suite, the feature that had me going “oh wow, that’s huge” is Canva Code. With just a simple text prompt, Canva can now generate dynamic, functional tools—like calculators, widgets, and other interactive elements—that you can embed directly into your Canva designs.
That means you can now build interactive experiences right inside Canva without ever touching a line of code.
So what does that look like for a small business owner?
You might create:
- A custom pricing calculator for potential clients to estimate the cost of your services
- A scratch-to-reveal discount widget for your next product launch
- A spin-the-wheel giveaway to generate excitement during a promotion
- Or even an interactive checklist or quiz that delivers a personalised result based on the user’s selections
All of these can be created by typing what you need into a prompt. Canva will do the rest, and the final interactive tool can be embedded in your website, digital guide, or social content.
I’m already brainstorming how I might use Canva Code to build a “how much time are you wasting in Canva?” calculator, and I have a feeling that’s just the beginning!
If you’ve ever wished your Canva designs could do a little more heavy lifting when it comes to audience engagement, Canva Code is going to open up all sorts of new possibilities.
Canva Sheets + Smart AI Tools
Canva just introduced their own spreadsheet feature, and it’s not just a prettier version of Excel.
- Canva Sheets brings your data and your designs together in one space, with a bunch of time-saving AI tools built right in:
- Magic Formulas enables you to ask questions like “What month had the most sales?” and get answers without writing a single formula.
- Magic Insights will automatically detect trends and patterns in your data.
- Magic Charts allows you to turn any dataset into branded, professional visuals you can drag into a presentation, report, or social post.
It’s a perfect option for planning content, analysing performance, or creating reports, especially if you usually find spreadsheets a bit intimidating.
For example, a small business owner could use Canva Sheets as a content planner, laying out topics, platforms, and publish dates in one tab, and then automatically turning that schedule into visual content using Magic Studio tools.
Or you could use it to track your monthly revenue, expenses, and KPIs in a way that’s not only functional, but easy on the eyes too.
Magic Studio at Scale
If you’ve ever wished you could clone yourself to get your content done… this feature comes pretty close. (Okay, not quite—but it’s pretty good.)
Magic Studio at Scale lets you plan out your content in a spreadsheet and then bulk-generate multiple designs from that data. You can even translate, personalize, and resize them automatically.
Let’s say you’re an Etsy seller launching a new candle collection. You could:
- List each scent, description, and price in a Canva Sheet
- Upload your product photos
- Use the bulk design feature to instantly create product graphics for your Etsy listings, Instagram posts, and Pinterest pins
- Translate those into other languages for international customers
- Resize them all in just a few clicks
It’s a huge time-saver for launches, promotions, or anytime you need multiple versions of content at once.
A Simpler, Smarter Photo Editor
Canva’s updated Photo Editor is now easier to access and more powerful than ever. You can open it directly from the homepage (no need to create or open a design first) making quick edits faster and far more convenient.
One standout feature is the Background Generator. Describe the kind of scene you want (e.g. “a warm, rustic kitchen” or “a bright, modern workspace”) and Canva will create a new background that seamlessly blends with your subject, adjusting lighting and shadows automatically.
So how might a small business owner use this?
- A product-based business could update old product photos by generating a fresh background that better matches their current branding.
- A service provider might swap out the background of a headshot to give it a cleaner, more professional look.
- A content creator could reuse a single photo across different campaigns by giving it a new seasonal or thematic setting with just a few clicks.
These updates turn what used to be a time-consuming process into something quick, visual, and even a little bit fun.
Video and Audio Enhancements
If you’re making more video content this year (or want to start), Canva just made the process much more approachable—and even a little fun—with a set of powerful new tools:
- Record your own voiceover directly within your Canva project. This is great for small business owners who want to narrate a behind-the-scenes reel or give context to a how-to video.
- Or use an AI-generated voiceover to turn written text into audio, with a variety of voice styles to choose from. This is especially useful if you don’t have the time, ability, or interest to record your own voiceover. The next time I come down with one of those colds that wipes out my voice, I’ll definitely be keeping this feature in mind.
- Add animated captions that highlight each word as it’s spoken. This is ideal for anyone creating short-form educational content, step-by-step demos, or social-friendly explainers that benefit from a visual and accessible format.
- Balance audio volume automatically to smooth out loud or quiet sections in just one click, which is helpful when combining different clips recorded in various environments or adding music.
- Experiment with new video and photo animations like Shake Zoom, Whip Slide, Old TV, and Chroma Wave (plus new “Reveal” styles like Brush, Ink, Digital, Spray Paint, Sketch, and Gradient) to add polish and personality to everything from product promos to Instagram Stories.
Reimagined Websites
Until now, Canva’s website builder has allowed for some beautiful one-page designs, but with some significant limitations, with one of the biggest ones being restricted to a single page.
However, Canva’s website builder now supports multiple pages, so you’re no longer limited to one long-scrolling layout!
This is a step toward making Canva a more viable option for website creation, especially for those just getting started. And I say that as someone who ran a website development company for 20 years and tends to be a little (okay, a lot) picky about website-building tools.
That said, please note that some of the other important limitations still remain. For example, there’s no robust analytics or email marketing integrations, meaning you can’t, for example, offer a freebie on your Canva site that connects directly to a tool like Kit, Mailchimp or Flodesk to deliver it automatically.
So is this a full replacement for more traditional website platforms?
No, I wouldn’t say that it’s ready to replace a dedicated website platform, but this update definitely moves Canva closer to being a viable option for more people.
But realistically, while the platform is becoming more capable, it’s still not going to meet every business’s needs.
Before you decide to use Canva (or any platform) for your website, I strongly recommend starting with a clear inventory of your requirements. Do you need advanced analytics? Automations? E-commerce? Membership functionality? The answers to those questions will likely rule out certain platforms (including Canva, in some cases).
But if your needs are more simple and straightforward, and you’re looking for a visually-driven, easy-to-use solution to get a great-looking site up and running quiclky without another monthly tool to manage, Canva’s website builder is now a much more viable option than it used to be.
Final Thoughts & What’s Next
There’s a lot to be excited about in this latest batch of Canva updates! And yes, also a lot to take in.
While the headline features are certainly worth celebrating, Canva has also been quietly rolling out smaller “wish list” items from the community that help make your day-to-day Canva use just a little smoother.
If your head is spinning a bit trying to keep up with what’s new, you’re not alone. The important thing to remember is you don’t need to figure it all out right away.
In the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing practical, bite-sized tutorials to help you get to know these features one step at a time, particularly focusing on the ones that I think will be most helpful for small business owners who are using Canva to create content.
Some of these updates may also mean I’ll need to refresh parts of my existing trainings inside the Canva Training Library, so that’ll be on my radar for the coming weeks and months as well.
