Ecommerce Industry News
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 kicked off new tests this month to measure the effectiveness of new features. One test tries different ways to highlight a shop’s sale when buyers are shopping on Etsy, such as letting buyers know […]
Etsy has begun making seller return policies more prominent as part of a test it initiated this month. Management has been focused on improving conversion rates, and according to Etsy, it describes the goal of […]
Etsy is running twice the number of tests as previous years as it seeks to improve its marketplace, according to the company’ CEO Josh Silverman, and now there’s a new way for sellers to keep […]
Etsy announced it is running a new series of tests to highlight popular items. Sara Kassatly posted the announcement, writing that “giving shoppers more information about what’s trending on Etsy will help them discover and […]
There’s not only fan fiction, there’s fan merchandise as well, and Etsy is testing a way to allow its sellers to participate in an approved manner. Etsy Director of Business Development Morgan Blake said the […]
Connecting one’s technology customers with new features presents a balancing act for such companies. Many factors associated with testing and delivering may present issues at other points in a service’s lifecycle, something vintage/handmade storefront firm […]
Etsy continues to run tests of various design and navigation changes, and sellers continue to object to some of the changes they and their buyers are being exposed to. Etsy has said it exposes only […]
Many Etsy sellers fiercely complained about a test the marketplace ran last month that hid shipping costs on product listing pages. After completing phase one of the testing, Etsy has now resumed a second phase of testing. […]
Etsy tried a test in which it omitted shipping costs from sellers’ listing pages, instead requiring shoppers to place items in their shopping carts in order to see shipping. After running the test for 2 […]