Store Score Team
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Scaling a Stationery Business Beyond Etsy: A Realistic Roadmap
At roughly $500-700 in monthly sales, the fee math between Etsy and a self-hosted store like Shopify tends to cross over – below that range Etsy’s percentage-based fees are typically cheaper, above it a flat monthly subscription plus lower processing…
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Scaling a Bath & Beauty Business Beyond Etsy: A Realistic Roadmap
Bath and beauty is one of the only Etsy categories where scaling beyond the platform triggers real regulatory obligations, not just business ones. A soap or skincare brand that outgrows Etsy has to think about labeling law and formulation stability…
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Etsy Algorithm Changes Over the Years: A Timeline for Sellers
Etsy has never published a single, complete changelog of every search algorithm adjustment it has made. What exists instead is a series of Seller Handbook articles, official announcements, and documented policy shifts that together sketch the platform’s evolving approach to…
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What Selling on Depop or Poshmark Teaches You About Multi-Channel Retail
An Etsy seller who lists the same item on Depop or Poshmark for the first time usually assumes it’s a copy-paste job: same photos, same price, same description, different platform. Within a few weeks, most of them find out how…
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Etsy Seasonal Spikes: Planning Inventory Without Overcommitting
For many Etsy shops, the fourth quarter alone can account for somewhere between 40% and 60% of a shop’s total annual sales. That concentration is an opportunity and a real planning risk at the same time: understock and you leave…
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Etsy Return on Ad Spend: Is Offsite/Etsy Ads Worth It?
“Etsy Ads” and “Offsite Ads” are two entirely different programs with different cost structures, different opt-out rules, and different ROAS expectations, and conflating them is one of the most common sources of confusion when sellers ask whether “Etsy advertising” is…
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Building a Wholesale Line From Your Best-Selling Etsy Products
A wholesale buyer isn’t the same customer as an Etsy retail buyer, and treating a wholesale line as “the same product, just cheaper” is the single most common reason a promising Etsy bestseller fails to translate into a sustainable wholesale…