Etsy announced today it is closing Etsy Studio and Etsy Manufacturing later this year. Significantly, it made no mention of any plans to close Pattern, its store-hosting service for sellers. The announcement comes as Etsy’s new CEO Josh Silverman continues Read more
Etsy launched a new tool to help sellers work with manufacturers on its Etsy Manufacturing platform. Note that sellers who use outside manufacturing help to produce items must apply for outside manufacturing approval prior to listing the items for sale Read more
Etsy has loosened its restrictions on sellers of handmade goods over the past several years, so much so that it has now launched a directory of approved manufacturers they can use to help produce their goods. Etsy plans to monetize Read more
Etsy will launch a new Manufacturing marketplace in the fall, it announced on Monday. Etsy sellers will be able to search for manufacturing partners and contact them through its messaging system (Etsy Convos). But isn’t Etsy a marketplace for handmade and vintage Read more
Interested in ramping up your Etsy business by using an outside manufacturer? Did you even know you could do that under Etsy’s handmade rules? Etsy is holding a session today, December 12th, at 2 pm EST to answer questions from Read more
In advance of today’s Town Hall meeting (January 28), Etsy posted an announcement that it was clarifying guidelines on outside manufacturing that it had announced in October at the company’s last Town Hall meeting that broadened the definition of “handmade” Read more
