A typical Etsy seller is a female entrepreneur working out of her home to supplement her household’s income. The marketplace said expecting her to calculate, collect, and remit sales taxes on every single sale in nearly 10,000 different tax jurisdictions Read more
Etsy is trying to boost sales by making it easier for sellers to turn custom requests into orders on their mobile devices. The new feature is targeted at opportunities presented when customers are communicating with sellers through “convos,” its member-to-member Read more
Etsy will begin marketing its site as a source of Mother’s Day gifts in 2 weeks, and it will select “giftable” listings to promote in the campaign. Mother’s Day falls on May 13 this year. “We’ll select eligible ready-to-ship and Read more
Many sellers were caught off guard in January when some marketplaces including Etsy began collecting sales tax on purchases originating in Washington state thanks to its new law. Pennsylvania has fallen in Washington’s footsteps and is forcing marketplaces to comply Read more
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
