Ecommerce Industry News
On January 31, 2018, eBay announced its plans to take over payments and explained: “Most sellers can expect their costs of payments processing to be reduced after they transition to eBay’s intermediated payments model, and […]
Etsy published two new posts on its Seller Handbook, one offering guidance on search, the other on Promoted Listing ads. In March 18th’s “Your Search Questions, Answered,” Etsy published answers to search questions from Sam […]
Etsy has begun rolling out a new search analytics tool for sellers to provide them with insight into how their listings perform in search; note that Etsy is keeping the existing Stats feature. Etsy said […]
Etsy is readying a search analytics tool for sellers along with other resources it will launch in the coming months to support sellers. It also released today a new guide called the Ultimate Guide to […]
Etsy continues to test ways to highlight sales taking place on its marketplace. Just as rival eBay encourages its sellers to run sales through Promotions Manager (and formerly Markdown Manager), Etsy now offers individual sellers […]
Etsy launched new tools on August 1st that allow sellers run and manage sales and coupons for their Etsy shops, and as of Tuesday, shoppers can search for sales on Etsy with a new “on […]
Etsy told sellers on Wednesday it is conducting some tests of its search engine with the goal of making search more intuitive in time for the busy shopping season. The series of tests will “slightly” […]
The same day Bloomberg revealed eBay was on the hunt for companies that make spell-correcting algorithms to improve search, Etsy revealed it had acquired one such company. Blackbird Technologies is a Silicon Valley-based company that uses advanced machine […]
Etsy is making two changes to search. In one change, visitors can no longer click on a link to a seller’s Shop when viewing search results – instead, clicking on a Shop name in a […]
Etsy announced some enhancements to its store-hosting site, Pattern by Etsy, which it launched in April. Sellers can choose to pay $15/month to have every one of their Etsy listings appear on their Pattern site […]