Customer Care Tip: Creating a Reserved Listing
Dear Sellers, Wondering how to reserve a listing in your shop for an inquiring buyer? It's easy as pie! Here's how: 1) Edit your item listing by going to Your Etsy>Currently For Sale>Edit 2) Click the edit icon (pencil) next to your item's title to change the title. Here you want to boldly state that this listing is …
Tech Update: Alchemy Recent Custom Creations
If you take a look at the Alchemy main page you'll notice something new: Recent Custom Creations. Similar to the Time Machine, Recent Custom Creations shows off recently created Alchemy items, giving those items their moment in the sun. Check it out to see some of the awesome things people are buying …
The Very First Alchemy Request
While Etsy engineer Jorge Lopez coded Alchemy, he was daydreaming of the his ultimate Alchemy request. As soon as we released the new site feature on Etsy, he was the first one to post a request! He ended up choosing artist Emily Balivet's bid and getting the most amazing painting. Watch the video to learn …
Etsy Pets: Personal Pet Portraits
It's pet week here at the Storque! Keep tabs on the Etsy Pets featured column for all the cute pet stuff you can handle. Here's VerreEncore's take on the art of pet portraiture. Pets ahoy! When you look to your digital archives and fumble through stacks of pictures, who do you most often see? Chances are that many …
Customer Care Tip: Building a Better Alchemy Listing
Dear Sellers: Alchemy is a feature on Etsy where members can post requests for custom handmade items, and sellers then bid on the opportunity to make the goods. Alchemy is another way to buy and sell an item through Etsy and, like a regularly listed item, an Alchemy transaction eventually generates a sold …
Economics 101: Alchemy
JJMFinance, a Certified Public Accountant, sees the world through green-tinted glasses and he's out to help Etsy sellers with their businesses. He looks at Etsy site features and sees economic case studies. And we love it! Below you'll find his useful interpretation of Alchemy. Do you remember your …
Tech Updates: New Features for Alchemy
Alchemy is almost a month old now, and after gathering feedback from a variety of places we have released a round of updates that should make your Alchemy experience even better. Changes include: RSS feeds for Alchemy searches A new "Batch Decline" option at the bottom of the bid list, allowing you to …
Etsy Finds: Home Sweet Home
I've always had a strange fascination with houses. Whether it's an abandoned country house with possible ghosties inside, my childhood home of long ago or a dollhouse just asking to be furnished, houses are my thang. When I saw JDavisStudio's beautiful house rings, I knew I'd have to start thinking about my …
All about RSS
Curious about the little orange RSS links you see all over the web? RSS feeds are a great way to keep tabs on websites that update frequently, like blogs and Etsy shops. Word on the street is that RSS stands for "real simple syndication." Check out this video on how to use RSS with Alchemy: [Music by Barry London] To …
