Plenty of makers sell in both places. Etsy is good for being found in a big marketplace. Your own shop gives you your own address, your own look, your own list of customers and lower fees. Handsold works alongside Etsy or instead of it: it’s your choice.
What helps todayLink to What helps today
- Bring your listings across from Etsy’s download, without changing anything on Etsy.
- Link to your Etsy shop from your header or footer.
- See how many visitors came from Etsy in Analytics.
- Compare the fees from Plan & fees.
Compare the feesLink to Compare the fees
Compare with Etsy’s fees is under Choose a plan on Plan & fees. It opens Handsold’s side by side comparison for the same sale.
Visitors from EtsyLink to Visitors from Etsy
In Analytics, Where visitors come from lists the sites that sent people to your shop, when their browser says. Etsy shows there by name.
Watch your stockLink to Watch your stock
The two shops don’t talk to each other. If a one-off piece sells on Etsy, it stays on sale here until you change it, and the other way round. For one-offs, update the stock in both places as soon as something sells.
Your Etsy orders stay in Etsy, and your orders here stay here.
Linking a shop here to an Etsy shop, with orders and stock kept in step, isn’t built yet.