Store Score Team
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Should You Charge More on Etsy Than on Your Own Website? The Real Math of Cross-Channel Pricing
On a $54 order (an item plus shipping), Etsy’s transaction fee (6.5% of the full order including shipping) and standard US payment processing fee (3% plus $0.25) together take roughly $5.38, or just under 10% of what the buyer pays,…
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What Happens to Your Etsy Search Rank When a Listing Sells Out (And How to Get It Back)
Etsy doesn’t quietly demote a listing when it sells out — it flips the listing to “inactive” and pulls it out of active search entirely, the same as if you’d deleted it (per repeated Etsy Support guidance and confirmed seller…
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Selling Wholesale on Faire: What an Etsy Seller’s First Order Actually Nets After Fees
Faire takes 15% of a wholesale order’s subtotal, plus a flat $10 fee the first time a North American brand sells to a new retailer through the marketplace — after that, every reorder from the same retailer costs just the…
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Presenting a Multi-Niche Etsy Shop: How to Look Curated, Not Scattered
Etsy caps every shop at 20 custom shop sections beyond the default “All items” view, and each section name is limited to 24 characters. That’s not a lot of room to organize a shop selling candles, jewelry, and pet accessories…
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How to Price Personalization Add-Ons on Etsy (Without Undervaluing Your Time)
Etsy’s Open API lets sellers attach an add-on price of $0.20 to $500.00 to a personalization question, but only if that question is optional text input. Required personalization, dropdown options, and file uploads can’t carry a separate add-on price at…
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Etsy Image Alt Text: Does Writing Your Own Still Matter Now That Etsy Auto-Generates It?
Since late 2025, Etsy has been auto-filling any listing image’s alt text you leave blank with an AI-generated description, something generic like “handmade necklace on white surface.” The field itself has a 250-character limit and only appears when your shop’s…
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Scaling a Clothing Business Beyond Etsy: A Realistic Roadmap
Etsy charges roughly 10-12% in standard fees per sale for US sellers (Fees and Listing Multiple Quantities – Etsy Help), a manageable cost at low volume but one that compounds meaningfully once a clothing shop is doing real revenue. That…
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When One Marketplace Isn’t Enough: Signs You’ve Outgrown Etsy-Only
Etsy itself frames its Star Seller and growth tools around helping sellers scale within the platform, but nothing in Etsy’s own seller resources claims it should be a business’s only sales channel forever. For a growing number of sellers, the…
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How to Use Etsy as a Testing Ground for New Product Lines
Etsy’s built-in shopper traffic means a new product idea can get real market feedback without a seller first having to build an audience from zero — the same advantage that makes Etsy a strong starting platform also makes it a…