Etsy Launches Groups to Support Member-to-Member Communication

Etsy has launched Groups in an invitation-only beta test. The first phase of Groups offers minimum abilities to edit and moderate a collection of members on Etsy. Eventually Groups will include discussion forums, marketplaces and communication features.

The Etsy Groups are designed to help members and Etsy Teams (formerly called Street Teams) to communicate with each other. The marketplace currently has 39,337 members in 796 teams and receives applications to create more almost everyday. Etsy said the Groups feature would make it easier to create, maintain and promote an organization on Etsy, whether it is called a Team or goes by another name.

Etsy is rolling out Groups in three stages, at which point anyone on Etsy will have the ability to create a group, write a description and create membership guidelines.

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