Bringing your listings over from Etsy

If you sell on Etsy, you can bring your listings into your Plukio shop without retyping them. You upload the listings file Etsy makes for you, and each listing comes in as a draft. Nothing goes live until you publish it.

The import is on the website only.

Get the file from Etsy

1. In Etsy's Shop Manager, go to Settings, then Options, and open Download Data.
2. In the first box, Currently for Sale Listings, click Download CSV.
3. Keep the file as it is. Etsy names it EtsyListingsDownload.csv.

Upload the file just as Etsy made it. Opening it in a spreadsheet app and saving it again can change it so it can't be read.

Etsy's file only holds listings that are for sale right now. Drafts, sold-out and expired listings aren't in it. If your Etsy account isn't set to English, set it to English and download the file again: the import reads the English column names.

Upload it

On Your products, open Import / export and choose Import from Etsy. If your shop has no products yet, there's also a link under the empty list.

Choose the file, or drop it on the box. Nothing is saved yet: first you see every listing in the file.

• One file can hold up to 2,000 listings and be up to 10 MB.
• You can upload up to 5 files in 10 minutes.

What comes across

• Titles and descriptions, word for word.
• Prices and stock.
• Tags, and materials as more tags. A tag that isn't plain words, or that doesn't fit after the first 20, is left off, and the listing says which.
• Every photo, up to 10 a listing. The photos are copied from Etsy to Plukio.
• Option names, like Size and Glaze.

Etsy's file doesn't carry shipping or categories. Drafts that ship get your default shipping profile, and you set categories on the drafts, many at a time if you like.

Answer the questions

Before anything is saved, the page shows each listing, sorted into Coming in and Staying behind. It asks two things Etsy's file doesn't say:

• Which listings are downloads. Listings that look like downloads are marked digital. Change any that ship. A listing's kind can't change once it's made, so check these. A digital draft needs its file uploaded before it can go live. See Selling digital products.
• Stock and price for each option. Etsy gives one stock number for a whole listing. Fill in what you have for each option. A box left empty comes in at 0, and that option shows as sold out until you set it.

A listing holds up to 10 options. A listing with more option combinations than that comes in with one option, and you add the ones you sell in the editor. See Variants.

If your Etsy prices are in another currency, each price is converted to your shop's currency at the newest exchange rate and rounded to a whole unit. The Etsy price sits beside the new one, and you confirm the prices once before you import. You can change any price on the draft later.

Listings that stay behind

Some listings don't come in. The page says why for each one:

• It has no title, or its price can't be used.
• Its title names something Plukio doesn't list. See What you can sell.
• It's the same listing as an earlier row in the file.
• It's already in your shop from an earlier import.

Import

Press Import. The page shows the drafts being made, then the photos being copied from Etsy. The drafts come in quickly. Photos come across a few at a time, so for a shop with many photos they keep arriving for a while after the drafts are done.

You can close the page. The import keeps going, each draft shows up in Your products as it's made, and its photos arrive on their own. When every photo has been copied, we email you.

When it's done, the page and the email say how many drafts are in your shop. The page also says what's left to do on them: files for downloads, options for listings that came in with one, and any photos that couldn't be copied.

After the import

Your listings are on the Drafts tab of Your products. Buyers can't see a draft. Check each one, then publish them one at a time, or many at once. See Editing in bulk and exporting a CSV and Why can't I publish?

Added listings on Etsy since? Upload a new file at any time. Only listings that aren't in your shop yet come in, and your edits to the earlier drafts stay.

Plukio knows a listing it has already brought in by its title and its first photo. If you change either on Etsy, a new file brings that listing in again as a new draft.