How to Connect Your IndieMade Site with Etsy

IndieMade is your own shop on the web, not a replacement for Etsy. Many makers sell in both places, and IndieMade can keep the two in step: bring your Etsy listings in, send IndieMade products out as Etsy drafts, and keep stock numbers matched. You choose how much of that happens. Etsy sync is included on every plan.

Before you connect, it helps to have your shop set up: see Fast Start.

Connecting your Etsy shop

1. In your Dashboard, go to Settings → Integrations and click Etsy.
2. Click Connect to Etsy.
3. Etsy asks you to sign in and allow IndieMade to work with your shop. Allow it.
4. You come back to IndieMade, on the Import Etsy Listings page, ready for the next step.

To disconnect later, click Disconnect at the top of the same page. Your IndieMade products stay where they are.

Importing your Etsy listings

Go to Dashboard → Products and click Import Etsy Listings (you land here straight after connecting, too).

1. The first time, click Load my Etsy listings. IndieMade reads your shop and lists every listing.
2. Narrow the list if you like: Search listings, pick a listing status, or choose Not imported, Imported or All listings.
3. Tick the listings you want, or click the import button on one row, and click Import selected from Etsy. Listings you already imported are skipped.

Added listings on Etsy since? Click Refresh from Etsy and import the new ones. An import always copies the current Etsy listing.

Etsy categories come across with your listings. If yours do not match the categories you use on IndieMade, tick Do not import Etsy categories under Etsy import options on the Etsy settings page before you import.

The Etsy settings page, once you are connected

Settings → Integrations → Etsy now shows your shop and these sections. Click Save Configuration after a change.

• Listing Sync
  • Automatically list new products on Etsy: every new IndieMade product is posted to your Etsy shop as a draft. It is a draft because publishing on Etsy costs a listing fee, so you publish it on Etsy when you are ready.
  • Automatically update products on Etsy: when you edit a product here, its Etsy listing is updated too.
• Quantity Sync
  • Enable Quantity Sync: keeps stock numbers matched with Etsy, checked when shoppers view a product and again when an order is placed, so the same piece is not sold twice. Off until you turn it on.
  • When a listing is deactivated or expired on Etsy: set the IndieMade quantity to 0 (for one-of-a-kind work) or leave it alone (if you keep selling it here).
  • Update quantities from Etsy now: checks every linked product against Etsy straight away.
  See Syncing Etsy Listing Quantities.
• Product Defaults: the Etsy Category, Shipping Profile, Processing Profile, Who made it, What it is and When was it made answers new products start with. See Editing Etsy Product Defaults.
• Advanced: Refresh Shop reloads your shop details from Etsy, for example after you add a shipping profile there.

New shops on a free trial see a Heads up note beside the automatic options. These change your live Etsy listings, so while you are learning IndieMade it is safer to send changes by hand, with Update Etsy Listing on one product or the bulk actions on many.

Bringing your Etsy reviews

Etsy reviews are imported from Dashboard → Reviews, on the Import tab. See Importing Reviews.

Day to day

• Working with Etsy-Linked Products: updating one product from Etsy or to Etsy.
• Choosing What to Keep When You Sync with Etsy: keep your IndieMade title, price or photos when you pull.
• Pushing products to Etsy in bulk.

Questions? Email support@indiemade.com.