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Etsy took over payment processing on behalf of sellers and is now expanding that to more countries, it announced on Thursday. The announcement covers transactions in Turkey, Malaysia, and Mexico to start, with more countries […]
It’s hard to believe that just one year-and-10-days ago, it was business as usual at Etsy under a CEO who had happily reigned for 6 years. But on May 2, 2017, the company’s Board of […]
Etsy confirmed a privacy breach impacted about 1,500 sellers. The incident was caused by human error and was not related to any hacking or website vulnerability. The incident occurred on January 30, 2018, when an […]
Etsy is forcing sellers to use its payments service, which its rebranding from Direct Checkout to Etsy Payments. This week it extended the deadline to comply until May 31st, after which it will suspend selling […]
Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson wrote a letter to sellers who were impacted by the payment-processing problem the marketplace experienced last month. Those buyers and sellers who had been hoping for some form of compensation for […]
Etsy’s reputation is taking a bruising due to a payments processing technical disaster that is being blamed on its third-party partner Worldpay. Etsy sellers are concerned that their reputations are also being harmed as customers […]
This month, Etsy experienced one of the longest-duration marketplace payment problems we can recall, and now the situation has taken another ugly twist as Etsy charged some buyers a second time for single purchases made […]
Etsy sellers continue to struggle with certain types of transactions thanks to the widely-publicized payments processing problems that began on July 1st. No refunds and no cancellations were going through, one EcommerceBytes reader explained this […]
Over a week after Etsy buyers began seeing their orders hung up due to a major problem with Etsy’s payment processing system, the company announced that most of the issues were cleared up. In addition, Etsy expects […]
Etsy sellers are still dealing with a major payments issue that began on Friday, and nearly a week later Etsy said Worldpay was the cause of the problem. While Worldpay apologized to buyers and sellers […]