New in Sold Listings: Three Currently-Available Shop Items Also Featured

July 16, 2008 at 3:44 pm · Filed under Featured Listings, Features, Listings · By GreenMamba

Admin marymary announces, in this thread, a terrific new addition to all Etsy ‘Sold Item’ pages.

marymary says:

Dear Sellers,

We’re happy to announce a new feature on Etsy: your sold listing pages will now show available related items from your shop. This means whenever shoppers come across one of your sold items, they’ll see up to three items currently for sale from your shop. So if a shop is featured on a blog or website and your items sells out, the buyer is immediately shown other items from that seller still available for purchase. And if there’s an item that has the exact same title, that one will be shown first to make it easy for buyers to find.

FAQ’s

Q. Where will I see related items?

A. Related items will appear on the listing and transaction pages of sold items. So any way a buyer gets to a sold item’s page, they’ll see related items from that shop. The only place you won’t see related items is if you are a seller looking at your own sold listing, or if there are no other items in a shop.

Q. How many items will show in the related items?

A. Up to three related items will show on your sold listings pages at one time. If there are less than three items to show, we’ll show as many as are available. If there are no items to show, then the page will appear in the same way sold listings originally appeared — without this new feature.

Q. How does Etsy choose which items to show for each sold item?

A. First off, we search the shop for an item with the exact same title as the sold item. If there is an exact title match, we’ll show that first. If there’s more than one match, we’ll just show the first one. After that, we pull from the seller’s featured items; this will help give the seller a little control over what may appear on their sold listings pages. Finally, if there are no featured listings in the shop, we show the seller’s most recently listed items.

Q. What if there are no active listings in a shop?

A. No related items will appear on the sold items page if there are no active listings in the shop at that time.

To see a screen shot of what it might look like, please see the official Storque announcement for this feature:
http://www.etsy.com/storque/section/etsyNews/article/tech-update-related-items-on-sold-listings/2233/
Hope you enjoy and thank you for your feedback,
Mary

Posted at 3:13 pm, July 16 2008 EST

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Guest picks for Etsy Finds?

December 3, 2007 at 5:22 am · Filed under Featured Listings, Miscellaneous · By quirke

In this thread, admins daniellexo and anda say Etsy is testing the idea of having guests choose items for the Etsy Picks email.

anda says:
We’ve also been testing the idea of having guest Finders in the future so its not always the same people choosing. I am really excited about their potenial.

daniellexo says:
Monday’s picks are already planned out and were picked by EtsyFinds readers! woot!

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New feature - Edited featured items stay featured

June 13, 2007 at 11:03 pm · Filed under Featured Listings, Features · By starrydesigns

If you haven’t yet made the interesting discovery, edited featured items now stay featured after you edit it. Before, whenever you edit a featured item, you have to go back and feature it again.

Go test it out!

Hoooray!

Talked about here.

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Problems With Featured Listings Feature

June 12, 2007 at 10:19 am · Filed under Bugs, Featured Listings · By Elizabeth

From this thread:

Etsy Admin
haim says:
There is an issue with featured listings showing up out of order/not bumping correctly. We’re aware of it and it is being worked on. I will hopefully have an update for you tomorrow with some more details.

- H
Posted at 4:53 am, June 12 2007 EST

EDIT:

RevolvingDork
Etsy Admin says:
We believe we’ve finished cleaning up the featured listings problems. You should be able to add and remove featured listings at your leisure now.

You may have some listings that you featured in the past coming up as re-featured now — you can clear them back out and feature only what you want again.

Let us know here if you have any further issues!
Posted at 8:14 pm, June 12 2007 EST

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Having Trouble Ranking Your Featured Items?

May 11, 2007 at 6:29 pm · Filed under Bugs, Featured Listings, Site Use · By Elizabeth

In this thread, where people report that the ranking the featured items in your shop feature is not working properly, RD responds:

RevolvingDork
Etsy Admin says:
It may help “clear” things out if you un-feature all of your listings, then re-feature them.
Posted at 10:37 pm, May 9 2007 EST

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