We recently heard from Ian, founder and developer of Etsy Hacks, a great new site full of scripts that will help make running your shop a little easier:

Etsyhacks is a site for tips, tricks, and tools for helping make your Etsy experience faster and easier. At the moment, I’m writing a series of tools for the Firefox web browser that add extra features to Etsy pages.

Current tools include one that allows you to alter the appearance of the “printer-friendly receipt” page (add your shop logo, change colours, hide sections, etc.), one that adds quick links to convos, feedback, etc., to the buyer box on your receipt pages, one that adds links to items to convos, and a number of others.

I’ve had some good suggestions for new ones from other Etsy users (and would welcome more) so I hope to be adding new tools fairly often.

For more detail from a user’s perspective, you can read EtsyBitch’s review at http://etsybitch.blogspot.com/2008/11/etsyhacks-finally.html

Etsy Hacks works with Firefox, and requires you to download an add-on called Greasemonkey. So far available scripts include:

Subtotals
Adds item and shipping subtotals to your receipt pages.

Quote post
Adds a ‘quote this post’ link to each post in the forums.

Forum user links
Adds links to a user’s profile, the “heart this user” function, and links to send them a convo and see all the convos you’ve had with them.

Cancel transaction
Adds links to cancel transaction from the sold orders and view transaction pages.

Edit this item
Adds “edit item” and “delete item” links to the View Listing page when viewing an item in your shop.

Transaction id to url
Change the text “Transaction ID# …” for each item on the “printer-friendly” receipt page into a URL.

Printable receipt enhancer
Apply IDs and class names to elements on the printable receipt page, so that you can use stylesheets to change the appearance of the page. Change the font size, hide sections, change colours, add a logo - see the example stylesheets for examples.

Convo linker
Automatically turns the text “listing #…” or “transaction #…” in a convo into a link. Useful for when a customer uses the “contact the seller” link to send you a convo.

Buyer info
Add extra information to the “buyer” box on a receipt page - a link to convos with that user, a link to their feedback page, a link to send them a convo, and a link to their email address.

Printer-friendly linker
Add a link to the “printer-friendly” receipt view for each order on your orders page, next to the link to the regular receipt.

Many thanks to Ian! We’ll be adding a link to Etsy Hacks in our sidebar shortly.