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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 adjustments we’ve flagged a few times already this…
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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. Given how much we’ve discussed recipient-first and occasion-based search…
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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 filtering options for buyers, including refinements to price range granularity and expanded style and occasion filters in several categories. From a buyer’s perspective, this makes it easier to narrow a broad…
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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, primarily around how stats and insights are grouped, apparently to surface performance data more prominently following…
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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 adjusted guidance around minimum photo resolution and made a small addition to recommended photo count for certain categories, nudging sellers toward more complete visual coverage of a listing…
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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 this week…