How to Leave Feedback for Your Etsy Buyer
Etsy relies on feedback to facilitate trust among buyers and sellers. At the conclusion of a sale, both the buyer and the seller leave feedback about the transaction. Other Etsy users can then view this [more…]
How to Pay Your Etsy Bill
Etsy stays afloat by charging sellers a listing fee (currently 20 cents) for each item listed on the site. In addition, Etsy collects a commission from the seller for each item sold — currently, 3.5 percent [more…]
How to Move Etsy Funds from PayPal to Your Bank Account
When someone uses PayPal to pay for an item from your Etsy shop, the funds for that transaction land in your PayPal account. Although you're free to leave them there, at some point, you'll likely want [more…]
Collecting Sales Tax on Items You Sell on Etsy
Odds are, you need to collect sales tax for the items you sell in your Etsy shop at least some of the time, (Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and New Jersey are the big exceptions that don't require [more…]
Improving Search Results for Your Etsy Shop with Keywords
Short of purchasing Google or Yahoo! outright, you can improve your search results by doing a little research to determine whether the keywords you're using for your Etsy shop are appropriate or whether [more…]
Choosing a Camera for Photographing Your Etsy Products
Because a picture speaks a thousand words, the photos you take of items for your Etsy shop need to be great. Choosing the right camera is central to taking great photos of your work to post on Etsy. [more…]
Great Photo Backdrops for Your Etsy Products
The photos you take of your Etsy merchandise can make or break your business. Choosing the right background can make your photo pop. Although white is the background color of choice for many Etsy sellers [more…]
Using Props for Great Etsy Photos
When you are creating photos of merchandise for your Etsy shop, using props is a great way to add interest to your shot or convey something about the item you're selling. One trick to using props to make [more…]
Hints for Getting the Lighting Right in Your Etsy Photos
No doubt about it, when you're photographing your work to post on your Etsy shop, good lighting is essential. Without it, your camera simply can't capture the color and texture of your piece. [more…]
How to Compose Appealing Photos of Your Etsy Merchandise
Just because you aren't Annie Leibovitz doesn't mean you can't compose some really swell photos of your own for your Etsy shop. The pointers in the following sections can help. As you shoot your pieces [more…]
How to Upload Your Etsy Photos to Picnik
It's important to make the photos you take of your Etsy wares look as professional as possible. After all, your images sell your merchandise. Picnik is a free tool you can use to edit photos you take of [more…]
How to Adjust Etsy Photos in Picnik
You are a craft-person or artist selling goods on Etsy, not a professional photographer, but if you take photos and upload them to Picnik, you can make adjustments to your photo's exposure. After all, [more…]
Creating a Banner for Your Etsy Shop with GIMP
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free, downloadable image-editing tool that is perfect for creating a banner for your Etsy shop. GIMP is also great for performing essential image-editing tasks [more…]
Pricing Your Etsy Merchandise for Wholesale and Retail
When you open up your Etsy shop, you become the proprietor of your own small manufacturing business. That means you need to establish two prices for your goods: the wholesale price and the retail price [more…]
How to Set Currency Preferences in Your Etsy Shop
Because most Etsy sellers hail from the U.S.A., the site's default currency is the U.S. dollar. However, when you set up your Etsy shop, you can change your settings to accept payments in other currencies [more…]
Setting Up an Etsy Policies Page for Your Customers
After you decide on your Etsy shop policies, like how to ship items and what sorts of payments you will accept, all that's left is to create a Policies page to share them with your buyers. Your Etsy shop [more…]
How to Set Up Your Etsy Shop's Return Policy
Obviously, you want all your customers to love the items you sell in your Etsy shop. But — no disrespect — sometimes they won't. On your Etsy shop's Shop Policy page, you need to set up a policy for returns [more…]
How to List a New Item in Your Etsy Shop
Listing a piece in your Etsy shop is surprisingly painless — provided that you've composed your item title and description, captured a few gorgeous pictures of your piece, set its price, established your [more…]
How to Post and Tag Your Etsy Listing
When you post an item on Etsy, you have the chance to describe how fabulous that item is. Etsy listings must include an item title and description. Adding tags makes your listing more visible on Google [more…]
How to Use PayPal to Ship Your Etsy Products
If you use USPS as the shipping carrier for your Etsy shop, you can ship through PayPal, even if your buyer paid using another method. Not only does PayPal not charge extra for this service, but it's cheaper [more…]
How to Create an Etsy Widget for Your Website
Do you maintain a blog or some other type of personal website? If so, you can use it to host an Etsy Mini, a wee widget that displays items in your Etsy store. People who visit your site can click an item [more…]
How to Add a Title and Announcement to Your Etsy Shop
Looking for a way to tell visitors what your Etsy shop's about? Look no more. Etsy lets you include a shop title on your shop's main page. Think of your shop title as a tagline. It needs to briefly sum [more…]
How to Divide Your Etsy Shop into Sections
Etsy enables you to organize your items by section. For example, if you sell different types of items — say, magnets, notebooks, and picture frames — you can use sections to organize your shop by item. [more…]
How to Fill Out Your Etsy Profile
Part of the reason people shop on Etsy is that they want to feel a personal connection with the living, breathing artists and craftspeople who make what they buy. That's where your Etsy profile comes in [more…]
Tips for Writing a Great Etsy Bio
A succinct, clever, well-written profile is essential to the success of your Etsy shop. Your bio lets buyers see who they're buying from. Through your bio, you become a bona fide human being in your buyer's [more…]
