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 when a shop’s sale is Read more
Etsy is kicking off a week-long Spring Sales event on March 22nd, and invited sellers to participate. Running a sitewide sale is a fairly new marketing technique to draw new shoppers to the site and get existing buyers to return, Read more
Etsy redesigned the orders page to give sellers more control over their workflow and highlight information needed. Unfortunately there’s also a bug impacting the orders page that hampering sellers from searching orders for tax-reporting purposes. Etsy described the changes to Read more
Etsy’s new CEO found another way to streamline operations – the marketplace will retire its own credit card reader in favor of a deal with Square. Josh Silverman took over in May after Chad Dickerson’s ouster and is forsaking Etsy’s Read more
Etsy is celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8th by showcasing sellers in a global integrated marketing campaign. Etsy has 1.65 million women sellers – that’s 87% of its sellers – so it’s not surprising to see it embrace the Read more
In a blog post on Wednesday, “What’s Coming Up In 2018: More buyers, better tools, real talk,” Etsy discussed its plans for the year and invited users to submit questions for CEO Josh Silverman. The post came a day after Read more
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 grew GMS (Gross Merchandise Sales) by nearly 18% in the fourth quarter of 2017 to $1 billion, the first quarter to reach the billion-dollar milestone. Etsy CEO Josh Silverman said the marketplace was able to accelerate GMS growth by Read more
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 seller requested a copy Read more
There are 45 states that impose statewide sales tax, and some of them are now making things complicated for online sellers and the marketplaces on which they sell, as Etsy and its sellers are discovering. At least two states have Read more
