Observers paying attention to Etsy’s Q2 2015 conference call may have picked up on a little tidbit in CEO Chad Dickerson’s remarks. Etsy is capitalizing on mobile commerce and crediting it to the experience offered by their mobile app – Read more
Most sellers of handmade goods on Etsy are barred from using manufacturers – a policy that a majority of sellers seem to approve. But last year, the company launched a program to open the doors to what it calls “responsible Read more
The financial press are saying Square has plans to go public. In writing about the reports, the Wall Street Journal cited “a person familiar with the matter” who said Square has already filed its prospectus confidentially. The move calls to mind PayPal. Read more
Etsy revealed some data about buyer-seller disputes, intellectual property takedowns, and requests for member information. The marketplace said its first ever Transparency Report provides an in-depth look at how Etsy integrates its company values, responsibility to members, and legal obligations. Read more
The Internet provides sellers with new ways to raise funds to grow their business. One is a type of financing called “working capital advance” made popular by Kabbage, which assesses risk by looking at sellers’ activity on ecommerce platforms, payment-processing Read more
Etsy continues to encourage its sellers who sell locally – for example, shoppers who use the Etsy mobile app can receive notifications about Etsy Local events. In a new announcement, the marketplace said it has made creating and joining Etsy Read more
Now that Etsy is a publicly traded company, it must file quarterly earnings reports with the SEC. On Tuesday, the company revealed Gross Merchandise Sales were $531.9 million, up 28.2% compared with the first quarter of 2014. The growth was Read more
Online sellers say scammers and spammers are continuing to use redirects to siphon Google traffic away from their Etsy listings. In April, EcommerceBytes reported that scammers were exploiting Google by using doorway pages to drive shoppers to their own websites. Scammers copy Read more
Sellers are caught in the middle of two companies, Etsy and PayPal, and have said they’ve gotten few answers over missing funds. EcommerceBytes has been following the problem since May 12th and has also received cryptic answers from the two Read more
Etsy passed along a message from PayPal in a discussion thread about missing payments from sellers’ accounts. PayPal said the problem was resolved, but refused to disclose if the problem was on its end. For well over a week, some Read more
