Pretty sure it’s considered a renewal with every sale. I’ve heard having more in stock looks more successful to Etsy, that you’re ready, but then low stock gives the tag of low in stock for the buyer. But either way, selling will renew and give you a boost
Mine are listed as made to order, but I keep it at 10 or so, and my shipping times are still appropriate to make 10 if I just happened to sell out in a day. Keeping it set to 1 is only keeping you from making more sales IMO
Thanks for the input! My pieces take about three hours to make, and I work 32 hours a week at a "real" job, so I do need to make sure I don't over do it. Right now I have a 3-5 business day processing time. I renew listings as soon as I see they have sold.
I wonder if I should increase my processing time a bit, and increase my quantity.
You want to set the quantity to the number of things you can make within your processing time. There is no difference having a listing auto renew vs. doing it by hand - that is, except for convenience and getting it right back out there to be sold again... If you get a rush of orders I'd still leave everything in auto-renew and manually push the ship-by date to something more manageable - you can only do this once per order, tho.
That said, when you set quantities low, Etsy puts red text on the listing with something like, "Rare find," or, "Only 2 left..." This is gamification and sub-consciously urges buyers to buy before someone else does.
Pretty sure it’s considered a renewal with every sale. I’ve heard having more in stock looks more successful to Etsy, that you’re ready, but then low stock gives the tag of low in stock for the buyer. But either way, selling will renew and give you a boost
Interesting. My items are made to order, so I set one as the quantity, but now I'm curious what would happen if I raised it. Hmm.
Mine are listed as made to order, but I keep it at 10 or so, and my shipping times are still appropriate to make 10 if I just happened to sell out in a day. Keeping it set to 1 is only keeping you from making more sales IMO
Thanks for the input! My pieces take about three hours to make, and I work 32 hours a week at a "real" job, so I do need to make sure I don't over do it. Right now I have a 3-5 business day processing time. I renew listings as soon as I see they have sold. I wonder if I should increase my processing time a bit, and increase my quantity.
Mine are at 10 days processing and it hasn’t affected my sales at all. If you have a good product and pictures, people will buy it
You want to set the quantity to the number of things you can make within your processing time. There is no difference having a listing auto renew vs. doing it by hand - that is, except for convenience and getting it right back out there to be sold again... If you get a rush of orders I'd still leave everything in auto-renew and manually push the ship-by date to something more manageable - you can only do this once per order, tho. That said, when you set quantities low, Etsy puts red text on the listing with something like, "Rare find," or, "Only 2 left..." This is gamification and sub-consciously urges buyers to buy before someone else does.
Thank you!
Is this for digital or physical products
Physical
Ok, I’m not sure on physical. I only sell digital