Store Score Team
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What Etsy Category Price Medians Actually Tell You
A category’s price median is a snapshot of what already-listed sellers charge, not a verdict on what your specific item is worth. Treating it as a target instead of a starting point is how well-made, well-costed work ends up priced…
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Bundle Pricing on Etsy: When It Works and When It Doesn’t
Bundling three items at a 15% discount sounds like a straightforward way to raise average order value, until you calculate what that discount actually costs against Etsy’s per-transaction fees. Bundling is one of the most commonly recommended Etsy pricing tactics,…
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How to Price Digital Downloads on Etsy
Etsy charges the same $0.20 listing fee, 6.5% transaction fee, and payment processing fee on a digital download as it does on a physical item — the fee structure doesn’t change just because there’s no shipping involved, which means digital…
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Discounting on Etsy Without Training Buyers to Wait for Sales
Every discount resets a buyer’s sense of what your item is “really” worth. Run enough of them, and the sale price quietly becomes the price, while your listed price becomes something buyers wait out. Table of Contents Introduction A discount…
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How Etsy’s Offsite Ads Fee Changes Your Real Profit Margin
Offsite Ads can bring in sales a shop wouldn’t have gotten otherwise. It can also quietly erase 12-15% of an order’s value on top of the fees a seller already expected to pay. Whether that trade is worth it depends…
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Psychological Pricing on Etsy: Does $19.99 Actually Outsell $20?
# Psychological Pricing on Etsy: Does $19.99 Actually Outsell $20? A widely cited field experiment by MIT and University of Chicago researchers found a shirt sold better priced at $39 than at both $44 and the lower price of $34…
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Free Shipping on Etsy: Does It Actually Help or Hurt Your Margin?
“Free shipping” on Etsy is never actually free. The shipping cost doesn’t disappear, it moves. The real question isn’t whether to offer it. It’s whether moving that cost into your item price changes your fees, your search visibility, and your…
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How to Raise Prices on Etsy Without Losing Sales
Etsy’s own fee structure takes roughly 10-13% of a typical US sale once the $0.20 listing fee, 6.5% transaction fee, and payment processing fee (3% + $0.25 for US sellers) are combined – a fixed cost that doesn’t shrink as…
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Etsy Pricing Calculator: Materials, Time, and Fees Together
Etsy’s own fee schedule charges a 6.5% transaction fee on the full sale amount plus a 3% + $0.25 payment processing fee, before a single material or minute of labor is even accounted for. A price that ignores this combination…
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How to Price Handmade Items on Etsy (A Real Formula)
Etsy charges a $0.20 listing fee, a 6.5% transaction fee on the total amount a buyer pays including shipping, and a payment processing fee of roughly 3% + $0.25 for US sellers. Any pricing formula that doesn’t add those fees…