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This Week on Etsy: Shipping Profile Tweaks
Another round of small shipping profile adjustments this cycle, worth a careful check given how close we are to the season’s highest-volume shipping weeks. What changed Etsy made further refinements to how shipping profiles calculate costs for orders with mixed item types or quantities, building on similar shipping profile adjustments from earlier this year. As…
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This Week on Etsy: New Category and Attribute Additions
A round of new subcategories and attributes rolled out this cycle, timed right as holiday gift-shopping traffic starts building in earnest. What changed Etsy added new subcategories across several gift-relevant areas, along with expanded gift-occasion and recipient attributes in categories where these fields hadn’t previously existed, continuing on from an earlier round of category and…
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This Week on Etsy: Search Filter Additions
New buyer-facing search filters rolled out this cycle, timed conveniently right as holiday shopping search behavior starts to build. What changed Etsy added new price-range filter options for buyers, showing clickable price brackets directly on listings, building on the category and attribute expansion rolled out earlier this cycle. Expanded style and occasion filtering in several…
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This Week on Etsy: Shop Manager Dashboard Tweaks
A round of small interface adjustments to the Shop Manager dashboard this cycle, mostly organizational rather than functional, but worth a quick orientation pass so you’re not hunting for things that moved. What changed Etsy reorganized several dashboard sections this cycle, adding a new Top Tasks section and policy-violation history to Shop Manager, apparently to…
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This Week on Etsy: Messaging and Inbox Changes
A small refinement to Shop Manager’s messaging interface this cycle, relevant to anyone tracking Star Seller response metrics closely. What changed Etsy made a minor adjustment to how message threads display in the seller inbox, improving how multiple messages from the same buyer within a short window are grouped and labeled. This builds on the…
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This Week on Etsy: Listing Photo Requirement Changes
A small adjustment to photo requirements this cycle, worth understanding given how much weight Etsy’s search puts on photo quality as a ranking signal. What changed Etsy’s current listing-photo guidance calls for higher-resolution images (at least 2,000 pixels on the shortest side) and more complete visual coverage of a listing (multiple angles, in-use shots, scale…
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This Week on Etsy: Shipping Profile Tweaks
Small changes to how shipping profiles work in Shop Manager this cycle — nothing dramatic, but worth understanding given how much weight Etsy’s search algorithm now puts on shipping cost. What changed Etsy adjusted a few details in how shipping profiles handle multiple item quantities within a single order, refining how additional-item shipping discounts calculate…
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This Week on Etsy: New Category & Attribute Additions
The small, unannounced changes that quietly reshape how buyers filter and find your listings. Here’s what moved this week in Shop Manager’s category and attribute structure. New subcategories added Etsy periodically splits broad categories into narrower ones as buyer search behavior shifts, and a handful of listing types picked up more specific homes around this…