How to Pay for Your Etsy Purchase
After you add an item to your Etsy shopping cart, you have to decide how to pay for your purchase. Etsy offers PayPal, credit card, money order, check, or other as payment options. If you chose to pay [more…]
How to Price Your Etsy Merchandise
When you begin selling items in your Etsy shop, you may wonder how to determine how much your customers should pay for them. If you hope to run a profitable Etsy shop, you need to get comfortable with [more…]
Tips for Adjusting Merchandise Pricing in Your Etsy Shop
When pricing your Etsy merchandise for sale, take some time to scope out your competition, both on and off Etsy. If their prices are roughly in line with yours, you're probably in good shape. If they're [more…]
How to Edit Your Etsy Listing
If for any reason you need to change you Etsy listing, you can. Editing an Etsy listing is a breeze (and free). You can edit any part of your item listing — the item title, item description, price, images [more…]
How to Copy Your Etsy Listing to Use Again
If you have created multiple items that are the same to sell in your Etsy shop, instead of building a new listing for each item from scratch, you can create one listing and then copy it. Here's how you [more…]
What You Can't Sell on Etsy
There are some items and services that Etsy doesn't allow you to sell. Because you can sell items you've made by hand, vintage goods, and supplies, you may assume, then, that as long as your item fits [more…]
How to Track Your Etsy Sales
Hallelujah! You've made an Etsy sale! When you sell an item in your Etsy shop, Etsy notifies you via e-mail straight away. This e-mail details which item you sold and its quantity and price and includes [more…]
How to Contact an Etsy Customer after a Purchase
Etsy sends you a notification e-mail when someone purchases an item from your Etsy shop. When you receive this e-mail, you need to contact the buyer to thank her for her purchase and to confirm that you've [more…]
How to Communicate with Your Etsy Customers
Communication is the single most critical factor to ensuring the success of your Etsy business. After your fabulous inventory catches your buyers' attention, your prompt and friendly communication — whether [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 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…]
