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Here's the truth. Most people actually never open their Etsy shop, even after watching tons of YouTube videos all about Etsy and print on demand because they're stuck in overthinking mode. They convince themselves that first they need to have the perfect logo, a flawless brand, and tons of great listings before they can even open their shop in the first place. Sound familiar?
Well, let me save you some time. You don't need to be perfect to start. You just need to start. Think of it like learning how to ride a bike. You didn't read a 30-page manual or watch tons of YouTube videos to learn how to ride it. You just grabbed the handlebars, hopped on, wobbled around, and figured it out. Opening an Etsy store is just like that. You'll learn so much more by actually opening your shop and getting your first item listed than you ever will over obsessing on the right way to do it.
So, if you've been waiting for a sign, then this is it. In this tutorial, I'm going to give you the full actual step-by-step beginner's guide. No fluff, no confusion, just action. First, let's get started with busting the two most common Etsy myths that I see hold up new Etsy sellers from actually taking action in their business. And then we'll hop into the full step-by-step, screen-by-screen guide of getting started as a beginner.
The first Etsy myth to bust is that you need to have a product launch with 15 to 20 listings in your product library before you actually make your shop live. The truth is though, you only need one product to launch your shop. The really beautiful thing about having an Etsy store is that most shoppers aren't looking for Etsy shops. They're actually coming to Etsy and searching for a specific item, looking through the search results, and then purchasing one of those. And that's because Etsy is a search engine-based website. So again, people aren't coming there just being like, "Oh, I'm just going to look around today," like you would at maybe a department store. You're actually looking for something really purposeful. Like you might come to Etsy and type in "Mother's Day mug" and then you look through the Mother's Day mugs and you purchase one. And so you can actually have just one item in your store and get sales.
Myth number two is you need to pick the perfect one niche before you can get started. If you're not familiar with what the word niche is, I know some people pronounce it a little different, but I like to say niche is a niche is just a category of products. So, one niche might be pickleball, one niche might be mom, one niche might be dad shirts or piano player shirts. There's so many different types of niches. So, these just think of them like different interests that people might have. So someone might tell you that you need to have say a golf-themed store and that's all you can sell. But that is absolutely a myth. If you really look at the top sellers on Etsy, almost all of them are going to be what I call a general store where either one they sell lots of different niches on the exact same type of product. So like let's say they sell just t-shirts, but they sell t-shirts for moms, dads, aunts, nurses, teachers, etc. or they might sell lots of different products for those different niches as well. Like they have shirts, they have mugs, they have tumblers, they have ornaments, and for all those different niches. And so the proof is always in the pudding. If you look on Etsy at the top sellers, really take a moment and ask yourself, do you need to pick one niche or not? Because almost none of the top Etsy shops did, and so I don't think you need to either.
So, stop stressing about finding the perfect niche or building a massive product line before you launch. Your store will evolve over time. Just get it live and let the market tell you what it wants.
Now, what should you actually sell in your Etsy store as a beginner? So, there's really three main options of what types of things that you can sell on Etsy. There's handmade items where you actually make the items at home by painting them, making them, etc. And then when a customer orders, you have to go to the post office, package those, and ship those each time. The second most popular option is digital downloads where you actually create something on your computer, and then when the customer purchases it, they just download it and get it right away. This might be something like party invitations or even a PNG designed to put on top of an item that they themselves print at home. And the third option is something called print on demand. And if you are here and you have not heard of print on demand or you don't know exactly how it works just yet, this is actually the strategy that I have used to become a top 1% Etsy seller myself. And this is the print on demand method. So the whole idea with print on demand is that it's a very low barrier entry way to start a business because you will work with a printing company. So let's say a company like Printify is my favorite print on demand company to use. You'd connect your Etsy store with a company like Printify and they have hundreds of different products that you can put your own design on and sell. So you'd post these items for sale on Etsy. They don't actually get printed and made into the item until your customer orders them. So you don't have to order hundreds of items of stock and figure out where to store them or then ship them because after you get an order from a customer, Printify will actually print that item and ship it to your customer for you. So, all you have to do is worry about creating the great designs, getting them listed in your store, and handle the customer service. But this is a really great option as well because you can make anywhere from $5 to $15 or even more per item depending on what you decide to sell. Whereas something like digital downloads, a lot of times you're only making $1 to $3 an item. So, there are higher profit margins that you can make with these print-on-demand items.
So, the first part I'll be showing you is how to actually open your Etsy shop. Then I'll also take you through how to set up your Printify account and get it connected to Etsy. So, this can be your one-stop shop on actually getting the store just opened and set up and ready for business.
So, step number one in creating your Etsy account is making a brand new email. Now, you're welcome to use a personal email if you'd like, but customers can email you at the email on your account. So, I would recommend having a professional email. If you're not sure what your Etsy shop name is going to be just yet, then you can just use your personal email to get started. And then you can always update this after you choose your Etsy shop name and get logged in. It is very easy to change the email later if you need to. And it doesn't need to be a fancy email. I would just open up a Gmail account so that everything for your business goes to one email.
Step two is to actually open your Etsy account with this email. So, if you already have an Etsy account that you like to make purchases on, I would leave that as your personal Etsy account and create a brand new Etsy account with your business email or your new email. But before you go actually open up the Etsy account, I do have a link for you down in the description that if you click that link and then open up your Etsy shop, you will get 40 free listings. Now, listings on Etsy cost $0.20 to post for sale. And so that is about $8 in savings if you open it with that link. So if you haven't opened up an Etsy shop just yet, click the link down in the description and then open up your Etsy shop.
Once you open your Etsy account, you'll see their home screen and you can click this button on the top right and click "Sell on Etsy" to actually open up your shop. Since at first what you did was just open up your actual account. Now if you use the link down below, this page will look just a little bit different, but it'll have that same "Get Started." It'll just say that you were referred by me right above it. So, I'll walk you through steps by step on what all these different pages look like. I didn't actually open a brand new shop, but all of these pages are up to date until I get to the payments portion. So, here you'll just say, "Let's do this."
Now, it is important to know that there has been an update within the last 6 months to a year with Etsy where you do have to pay a $29 setup fee. They've been changing this. Sometimes it's $15, but now it seems to really be set at $29 for a little while. And so if you see a different number, if you're watching this in a few months, don't panic. It is normal. The reason why it costs money to open up an Etsy shop is there was a lot of kind of fraud on Etsy. So, this is Etsy's way to try and combat that and get people to stop opening up fraudulent Etsy accounts just to scam other sellers or customers. So, you'll say, "Let's do this," and go to the next page.
Now, I would say you do want to answer the next questions in the rest of the pages. It doesn't really matter exactly what you answer, but I do think that it helps Etsy's bot system realize that you are not a bot. So, with Etsy, they do have automated systems because of the issue I was just talking about to make sure that your shop is real. And so, sometimes shops do wrongly get flagged and suspended after opening. So, just a heads up there. You can appeal it and get your shop back. It doesn't happen near as often as it used to. I think they've made big strides in getting that fixed. But if you go through this whole process and your shop gets suspended, don't panic. Just file an appeal. I've seen people have to file two appeals before, but almost everybody gets their shop back as long as they are truthful with their application on where they live and all of their information. So, I would say, "I'm just starting to sell for the first time." You can say, "Is there anything I'd like help with?" Feel free to pick one of these and then go to the next page.
Just now time for the fun part. Start your shop. So here it'll bring you to the actual checklist of what it's going to look like. Opening your shops, your preferences, naming your shop, stocking your shop, how you'll get paid, billing info, and your shop security.
So this page here, you're going to choose your language. You're going to use your shop country and your shop currency. This part is really important. I know only about 50% of my YouTube channel is in the US. So, if you don't live in the US, this is where you want to be honest about where you actually are. Later on, we can say your shop is located somewhere else. If it's shipping from somewhere else, like for the customer-facing, you can do that. But for this page here, it is really important that you tell Etsy where you're actually located. Unfortunately, Etsy isn't available for sellers in every single country. But you will see, I think over here, I just accidentally blocked it, um, what countries it is and isn't available in. And then as far as your currency, you do want to make this currency the same currency as your bank account. If you say don't have US dollars in your bank account, but you make your shop currency USD, then you will be paying up to a 2.5% conversion fee for that money to get paid to you when you make money from Etsy. So, we don't want that. I do also recommend opening up a credit card with 0% foreign transaction fees if you can find one. I know Canada at least has a good one. Uh, but if that's not an option, then it's not an option. So, fill out this information here.
And then on the next page, you'll be naming your shop. So, if you haven't already chosen an Etsy name, you will put it in here. And you can put in any ideas that you have. This really I would recommend not overthinking your Etsy shop name. You can even change it, I think, just once later on. So, it's not something you have to be tied to. But the other really good part about Etsy is that Etsy is a search-based platform where most people aren't coming and typing in your store name and finding you and then looking through your shop. 99% of the time, people aren't even looking at your shop name. They're just typing in "gift for mom," looking through the search results, and buying one. So, don't overthink this step. If you do need some inspiration though, you can go to just etsy.com is the best place to get inspiration and look through other people's shop names. You'll see most of them are real generic or don't even make a ton of sense and that's totally fine. You can even name it after a paint color you like or after something that people call you, whatever makes sense. And then when you put that in there, they'll give you some name generator ideas down at the bottom um for like adding "boutique" or "store" or "shop" or whatever at the end of it. And so, you know, come up with a name and go ahead and keep going.
The next step in the process is stocking your shop. So, for us print on demand sellers, this is going to be a fake listing that we're going to delete later. If you get to this part and you actually have a product that you're ready to sell in your store, like a digital download or a handmade item, then go ahead and actually fill out all this information and then this will be a real listing for you. For any print on demand sellers, when we're selling print on demand items through Printify, we're actually going to be adding the design to Printify and then publishing that design to Etsy. So, we won't be making the listings here on Etsy in most cases. There are some ways that you would or reasons that you would. Um, so this is for us in print on demand space going to be just a fake listing that we'll delete, but I'm going to walk you through the whole process so you're not confused on what you need to set up. And this will also help you later when you set up your very first listing. And now is actually a great time to actually like this video and subscribe because I will be making another video very soon, hopefully next week, where I'll actually walk you through the full process of a listing from finding a design to making the design, the research, actually listing on Printed by, publishing to Etsy, doing the SEO, and the mockups. So, that will be a super in-depth, really great video. So, subscribe if you want to check it out.
So, this is the page that you'll see once you scroll down. So, you want to choose a category. So, here you can see I typed in t-shirts. You can type in whatever category that you're selling, but t-shirts is a real easy one. And then you'll say it's a physical item. You'll say another company or person made the item since with print on demand, we are not the ones actually physically making the item. And then for the next part, you'll say what is it? It's a finished product. And then when was it made? Made to order. The last thing you need to do here since you chose another company or person is you need to add a production partner. So Etsy does require that if you're not the one hand-making your items or digitally making your items, then you do have to tell Etsy who your printing partner is. That does need to be put in here. So click "Add Production Partner." And you would just want to choose one print provider from say Printify to make one of these for. And then if you're not sure, you can just use Swift POD and that's what I'll show you how to do here on here. So you would just Google in this case Swift POD is one of the printers on Printify. So Swift POD location. You can see their address here in San Jose, California. And so then you'd use that information. So on the "Create a Production Partner," you can put "Production Partner Name," Swift POD. Um, I choose to not show the production partner's name to my buyers. And so then you give it a descriptive title. And this will actually appear instead of the production partner's name. So I just say "Print Production Partner." Something really generic. For "About this Partner," I say, "I make all of the designs. And they help me add these designs to the physical items." And then for the location, again here you can see we used San Jose, California. And then at the last part at the bottom, you'll say "About our partnership." Why are you working with them? "I don't have the technical ability or the equipment." Uh, what is your role? "I design everything myself." And then third, what is the partner's role in the production process? Which is they do everything for me. Now, this is just an important just like little note. If you're selling on Etsy, this "I design everything myself." You do need to make sure you give that answer because technically Etsy is still trying to be like a unique marketplace or handmade marketplace. They do allow print on demand partners like this with the caveat that you have to have designed the products. So, you can't sell print on demand and purchase all the designs already pre-made. That's technically against their terms of service. So, you do need to be making the designs to be able to sell print on demand, if that makes sense. So, go ahead and save that. And then this will be ready if you use Swift POD in your listings. And then this is what you'll see, the production partners created. You'll see Swift POD and you can click "Done."
So, then it'll ask you to add some more details. So, it'll ask you to add some photos and details about your item and your title. So, going to the next page here, you can just do something really simple. So, title, I just pretended like it was a gift for a teacher, but again, because we don't want to get flagged by the bots, we want to try and make sure this listing looks as realistic as possible. So, for the title, I said "Teacher Shirt, Gift for Teacher." You can do "Gift for Mom." Just put in two or three different keywords like that, something that looks like an Etsy title, and you'll be good to go. As for the pictures, I do think it would be a good idea if you have product photography of some kind, like pictures of what you're selling to upload it. Now, if you don't and you're a brand new print on demand seller, then what I'll have you do is actually make something in Canva just really quickly. If you're not familiar with what Canva is, Canva is a design software that makes it really easy to add text, change colors, add graphics. This is where I put together most of my designs if I'm not using something like AI to make the designs. And so, I do have a 30-day free trial for Canva Pro down in the description. So, you can use it completely for free to do what I'm about to show you. And then you can use it to make all of your designs for your first month to really get started for a low, low amount to get started with your print on demand business. Coming over to Canva to make just a quick product photography. You can click "Create a Design" and then you'll come down to "Custom Size." For this, I'm just going to put 2700 by 2700 since that is the size photos that I like to use for my Etsy images for like the photos of the product. And click "Create New Design." Again, this is just a quick thing to do to make this fake listing. This isn't how I actually want you to do it in the future, but you can feel free to skip to the next part if you already have product photography. And I'll have all of the timestamps down below. So, here I'm just typing in like a picture of a shirt, for example, and go to photos. And let's just use something like this one. This is great. Um, you can right-click it and set it as the background. Nice and great. And then we're going to add some kind of text to it. You can even use some of these font combinations that are already created down here. Try and make sure it makes sense for, you know, the fake kind of title that you gave it. But again, we're not actually posting this for sale. We're just using this for our um, you know, product photos to make it look very realistic. So, let's say like "First Grade Teacher." Now, again, I probably wouldn't actually sell this in my store. This is just a real quick, quick thing to get you some product photography. Kind of place it on the shirt like it would actually look. And then there you go. That's all we have. If you want to do two or three, I think that's fine, but I also think one photo would probably cover it for opening your shop. Um, then you'll click "Share" and "Download." And then here you can just save it as a JPEG file and click "Download." Then now you can use one of these images for your fake listing.
Scrolling down on the page, you can add in a description. So again, I would just add in some kind of quick thing about like, "This would make a great gift for a teacher for Teacher Appreciation Day." You can add in something about how, you know, it's custom order. You don't take any returns or exchanges. Um, just add in some stuff in the description to make it sound like, again, it's a real product. If you don't have your full real description ready yet, you can even just go to Etsy really quick, find a shirt, and just copy and paste some of types of things that they have in their description, just because we want this to look as realistic as possible.
Scrolling down a little bit more, you'll set your price and your quantity. So, a good price for a shirt, we'll say $24.99. And quantity, the highest quantity you can ever make on Etsy is 999 in stock. So, I would just set it at that. And then you'll come down to the bottom. I usually just skip the tags and attributes. I don't think you really need to fill any of that out, especially for this. Um, and then coming down to the tags, I would just add in a couple. So tags, if you're not familiar, is part of your SEO, just search engine optimization. So how I've been saying that Etsy is a search-based platform. The way that customers find you is by searching keywords. And the way your listings come up for those keywords is you have those keywords in your titles, your tags, and your description. So, we'll go more into this in the next video and how that works. But you'll just say something like this. Super simple. "Gift for teacher," "teacher gifts," "teacher appreciation," "first grade teacher," like what do you think you would type in for the fake thing that you're making? And then we'll move on from there.
Last, you need to make a shipping profile. So you'll come down to "Shipping Profile" and click "Create Option." And then here when you are creating your shipping option, you do need to change this top one from "Calculate them for me." They recommend it, but don't do it because then it'll ask you like the dimensions of the item and the weight of the item. We just want to set a set price because with print on demand, we pay a set price per item. So you'll say "I'll enter fixed prices manually" and then you will add in the information. So for Swift POD, the zip code was 95112. Shipping from the United States and processing time. Just in general, I like to say about 3 to 5 days for the item to actually get printed and sent out is a pretty good estimate. Most print on demand items are really sent out within 1 to two days, but stuff does run late. Things do go out of stock. Stuff does happen. So I definitely think underpromising and overd delivering is always a good option. Then coming down to the shipping service, um, I would change that to USPS First Class Mail, 1 to 5 business days. And then here you can say what you'll charge is free shipping or you can put in there a manual amount, whatever you'd like. And then if you don't want to sell outside of the US, um, so here you can see "Everywhere else," you can actually just delete that here and leave just the United States. If you want to ship other places, that's completely up to you. But there are things that you'll need to know about shipping to other countries. Like some countries require you to take returns and exchanges or have extra fees that are going to be put on it. So personally, I would recommend starting, even if you don't live in the United States, start selling just to the US because they are the largest customer base on Etsy and it'll just be the simplest. You don't have to research everything else. But you can change this any day you want. This way, you don't have to know everything going into it. And I actually will link an interview that I did with one of my students, Andreas, who lives full-time in Sweden and started an Etsy shop and has now sold over a million on Etsy. I'll link my interview with him that we did talking all about what it's like to sell only to the US while not living here, how to avoid um different conversion fees, and different tips and tricks that he had. So, I will link that interview down below for any of you that don't live here in the US. And you can click "Save as a shipping profile." And that will be what it looks like here. Uh, for your returns and exchanges, I would just click the returns and exchanges policy that they have. Um, and you could even change it to 15 days if you want to take two-week returns and exchanges or you can say "No returns and exchanges." And I'll also put a video that I made down below about how to handle returns and exchanges for a print on demand business. So, I'll link a couple different resources and videos for you to watch next in the description since I can't cover everything in today's video all at once. And then down here at the bottom, you'll just change this to a manual renewal. So, what this means though, just so you know for the future for your renewal options, you can either do an automatic renewal or you can do a manual renewal. The difference is that you get charged $0.20 when you first list the item. If it doesn't sell, then in four months, they'll charge you $0.20 to relist it for sale. And if you want that, you can leave it on automatic or you could change it to manual. So, if it doesn't sell for 4 months, it will go into your inactive folder on Etsy. Um, so totally up to you. I personally like to let listings go two or three renewals before I deactivate it because even if it sells one time in the entire year and it more than pays for those fees and so I kind of gamble on if that ends up working out for me or not. But that's just a personal preference. Again, nothing with Etsy is set in stone. It's all kind of something that you have to kind of figure out and try different things over the time that you're selling on Etsy and you'll figure out what works best for you. So then lastly, you'll just click "Save and Continue." You'll get this screen that says "Great job on your first listing." And then don't click "Add more listings." Just say "Do this later."
So now we're in the "How you'll get paid" section. So this you'll hear see up here at the top. It says, "To protect our marketplace and new sellers, a percentage of earned funds may be set aside in a temporary reserve for some new shops." Now in my experience, they put payment reserves on every brand new shop. And it is important to understand what payment reserves are before you get started so that you aren't surprised by this. So the way that print on demand works is when you get an order from a customer, you have to immediately pay Printify to print that item for the customer because Printify and Etsy are separate companies that are not technically related financially in any way. So, you'll be paying Printify to print the item and then Etsy is going to take out the Etsy fees from the item that they purchased and they'll give you the money. So, you pay Printify and then Etsy pays you back, but you are the middleman. But Etsy wants to protect against scammers. So, to protect their buyers, what they do is they keep a percentage of each sale until they get the tracking number proving that the item shipped to the customer. So, for a few days until that item ships, you've paid Printify, but Etsy hasn't paid you yet. So, for that reason, I would recommend having maybe a hundred or $200 saved up so that you can front some of that cost. But after 90 days, you can change it to where you get paid out daily on what your customers actually purchase. And so, it is just something good to know so you're not confused in how it all works once you get started.
So, then here you'll see "Where is your bank located?" So, for me, I said United States, but it is important to know that you cannot change what country your bank is located in. That's something that at least someone told me. I've never tried it myself, but I've had sellers try and change countries of their bank, and it hasn't worked. I think it's a security measure for Etsy, thinking that it's fraud of some kind. And so, just a heads up there if that makes any difference to which bank account that you actually connect to.
So, when you scroll down, it'll say "For tax purposes, what type of seller are you?" If you are just a seller and you're signing up with your social security account, you would be an individual. So, that is what is called a sole proprietorship here in the United States. You can open up a business without having to open up an LLC or a business bank account or any of that fancy stuff, which I do recommend for 99% of people. If you're just kind of checking this out, seeing what you think, just getting started, this is going to be a really good option. If you already have an LLC, which is a limited liability corporation with your state, if you've already paid for one of those, then you would select "Business" and instead of putting all your personal information, you'll also be putting in your business information as well. But what's nice is if you start out as a sole proprietorship and you start making a bunch of money with your Etsy business, hopefully that's the case, you can always switch it to an LLC later on down the line.
The last thing you need to do on this page is connect to your bank account. Now, if you work with a really large bank, like let's say like Chase Bank or Bank of America, then you can just connect it by signing into your bank account and confirming it and it'll be connected right away. That's the best option. But if you work with a smaller bank, like maybe a credit union or something really small, they might not be able to connect it immediately. And so this process might not be super fast. What they'll have to do is actually send a few cents to your bank account, like maybe $0.15, $0.45, and then you'll have to come back and tell Etsy how much money they had put in your account and then taken back to verify your account. So all the more reason to actually open your account today and get started. Sometimes it can take a few days for some of these verification processes. So, better to get it out of the way when you're feeling motivated to do this. So, that way as soon as you're ready to list items, you can just get going.
So, the next screens are going to be "Share your billing info" and "Shop security." I didn't actually open a brand new shop and so I didn't want to go through the process of connecting my bank account and everything, so I can't show you those screens, but it just be you filling out your information. Sometimes it's going to actually ask for photos of your driver's license or your passport to prove that it's you, but not always. And then I also recommend setting up two-factor authentication when you get to that step. So that way you have to enter in your code that you get sent to your phone if someone tries to log in on your device on a different account. Because the sad truth with Etsy is that there are a lot of people who try and scam Etsy sellers. When you first open up your Etsy shop, you'll probably get a bunch of fake messages pretending to be Etsy is a really big one, saying you haven't verified your account or some people will say they're a customer, but they just need your email. There's a lot of different popular scams and unfortunately they do target brand new sellers. But I would recommend watching the video I put in the description on how to tell if it's a spam message and what to do with those spam messages. So again, I'll link that video down in the description as well.
Once you're logged into Etsy and you've got your shop all open, first of all, I just want to say congratulations. You are doing amazing things opening up a business for the first time and you should be super proud that you took that next step. But if it doesn't take you to the actual shop manager and it just takes you to the Etsy homepage, then the way that you actually access your Etsy shop, like the back end of your store, is up here on the right. You'll see this button that says "Shop Manager." So, when you click that, it's going to bring it to the back end of your Etsy store. You can click "Listings." This will bring you to all of your listings, which right now you probably won't really have any, but you will see that fake listing that we made. So, I want to show you how to delete it really quickly. This is just my mockup store for an example. This isn't my print on demand store. You'll just click this button here and then click "Delete." So, real easy. You can also just click this little gear button and click "Delete" right here as well.
Now, I'm not going to cover branding your shop, like making a logo, making a banner, and setting up all your shop policies in this video, but you will want to eventually add your information for your shop, your logo, your banner, all this information here, and then some info about your shop down here at the bottom. So, this would be like your shop policies, about the owner, etc. So, I'm not going to make a video about that right at this moment cuz I do already have a video on my channel. So, I will again make you a whole list of the videos I think you should watch next down in the description so we can show you how to do that.
So, the last step is setting up your Printify account and connecting it to Etsy. Now, I do have a link down in the description that you can click to open up your Printify account. And this does really help to support my channel. So, if you are enjoying this video so far, you got a ton of value and I've really helped you open up your Etsy shop, then please consider using that link to open up your account or you can just go to printify.com. And if you actually got to this point and you opened up your Etsy store, say "I did it" down in the comments so that I can congratulate you and everybody else can go to the comments and congratulate you as well.
So, once you get to Printify, you're going to click this button that is "Sign Up." The best part about Printify is it is a completely free website. At one point, once you're selling enough, which is maybe like 10, 15, 20 items a month, you can pay for something called Printify Premium where you get a discount on all of their products. But until that point, it is completely free. So, here you'll just enter in your email, enter in your password, and click "Sign Up."
Once you're signed in, you'll see your dashboard here. I'll give you a quick little tour of Printify. Here is where you'll see the catalog of all the different products that they have to sell. If you're not sure what you want to sell on Etsy, then I would recommend starting with one of the Printify bestsellers because when you go through here, you can see all of the items that other print on demand sellers are currently having tons of success with that you can as well. There's only so many. So, you know, all of these are working really, really well, like candles, shirts, phone cases, and mugs. I would give my seal of approval to almost any of these items to sell in your store. When you come to "My Products," here's where you'll see the actual items that you have added your designs to and posted for sale. The "Orders" page is where you'll see any orders that you've gotten and the information there. Your "Wallet" is going to be where all of your financial information is saved. So then coming down here, you will want to go to your "Store Settings" and set up some settings there. And I will post a video down below of a bunch of the Printify store settings that you might want to set up. But the most important thing we're doing right now is connecting it to your Etsy store. So to actually connect your Etsy shop, you'll come up here to the top. You'll see a button here and you'll click "Add a New Store." So this will bring you to a page that shows you all of the different types of websites and applications you can connect to with Printify. But for Etsy, we're going to come right down here and click "Connect to Etsy." This will bring you to the Etsy login page. And then you'll enter in your Etsy email, your Etsy password, and click "Sign In." It'll ask you if you want to grant access to Printify to your Etsy account. You'll say "Yes, I grant access." And then boom, you'll be all set, and your Printify account will be connected to your Etsy shop.
So proud of you for getting your shop open and connected to Printify. I'm sure this felt like a bigger mountain than it ended up being. But if you are watching this and you haven't actually opened your shop yet, go back to the beginning, follow along, pause as you go, and get your shop up. What are you waiting for? It's only $30. Like, bet on yourself. That is less than a trip to Target or out to dinner. So, really put that money into investing in yourself and your future and your dreams. And you should be super proud of what you're doing. And I know I am super proud of you. And if you want help scaling your print on demand business, then I will link my free print on demand mini-course that goes a little bit more into depth of finding designs, making designs, posting them, and other tips and tricks down in the description. And then I'll post that video up next that I really think you should watch, which is how to avoid the common Etsy scams for new sellers.