Etsy seller guides: tags, titles, photos and bulk editing
Etsy’s rules for titles, tags, photos and bulk uploads, and how to work within them.
Watch it work
How to connect to Etsy
Click Connect shop, then allow SpeedList access on Etsy. Your shop and its listings then sync in.
How to create a template
Name the template, tick the parts it should set, and fill those in. Everything you leave empty stays as each listing has it.
How to create a collection
A collection is a set of photos you reuse, like a size chart or a colour guide. Upload them once and add them to any listing.
How to create one listing
Photos, title, tags, price and variations on one page, with the Etsy rules checked as you go. Publish it as a draft or live.
How to apply a template
Pick a template on a listing, or on a whole selection at once. Only the parts the template sets are changed.
How to apply a collection
Choose a collection while editing photos and its images go into the listing, before or after the ones already there.
How to generate titles and tags
Generate reads the cover photo and writes a title and thirteen tags. Review them, change what you want, then save.
Guides
Two ways to edit many Etsy listings at once: Etsy’s Shop Manager tools, and a bulk editor for what Etsy can’t do, like find and replace or photos.
The rules for Etsy tags (13 tags, 20 characters each), how Etsy search uses them, and a simple method for filling all 13 with phrases buyers actually type.
Etsy titles can be up to 140 characters, but only the first few words show in search. How to structure a title, what Etsy rejects, and how to fix titles.
Etsy has no bulk upload or CSV import. The ways sellers add many listings at once: copying, the Etsy API, and tools that build listings from photos or CSV.
How many photos an Etsy listing can have, the size Etsy recommends, video limits, and how to add or reorder photos across many listings at once.
How Etsy draft listings work: what they cost (nothing until you publish), how to publish drafts in bulk, and why drafts are the safe way to add many listings.
Raise or lower prices across an Etsy shop: Etsy’s own bulk price tool, what it leaves out, and how a syncing editor changes prices by a percent, rounds to .99 and covers variations.
Move hundreds of Etsy listings to a new shipping profile: with Etsy’s editing options, or with a syncing editor that also sets processing time, return policy, weight and size.
Etsy’s bulk editor does not change variations. How to give many listings the same size and colour grid, prices and SKUs with a template, and how to clear variations in bulk.
Step by step, with screenshots: add a product photo, press Generate, get a title under 140 characters and 13 tags under 20 characters, check them, publish or copy them into Etsy. Free plan, 10 a month.
What SpeedList does
Edit hundreds of Etsy listings at once: find and replace in titles, add or remove tags, change prices by a percent, update photos and shipping, then publish.
Get all 13 Etsy tags from a product photo, each under 20 characters and written as the phrases buyers search. Edit them and apply them across listings.
Write Etsy titles that fit 140 characters and lead with what buyers search. SpeedList writes the title from your photo, with 13 tags and a description.
Etsy has no CSV upload. SpeedList’s is free on every plan: import a spreadsheet, map the columns to Etsy fields, review each listing, then publish as drafts or live.
Save a listing’s setup (category, attributes, shipping, variations, prices, tags, photos) as a template and apply it to any number of listings at once.
Upload a product photo and get a complete Etsy listing: title, 13 tags, description and attributes. Add the price and shipping, then publish to Etsy. Free to start.
Write Etsy product descriptions from a photo: what it is, materials, size and use, in plain sentences buyers read and Etsy search can match. Edit, then publish.
An editor for Etsy listings that syncs your shop: every field Etsy has, photos, video, variations and shipping on one page. Edit one listing or bulk edit many, then publish.
Etsy has no way to move listings between shops. How to copy listings from one Etsy shop to another with SpeedList: sync, copy to Studio, switch shop, publish as drafts or live.
List printables, templates and other digital downloads on Etsy faster: title, tags and description written from the preview image, files attached, published in bulk.
For print on demand sellers: turn a folder of mockups into Etsy listings with titles, tags and descriptions, apply one template for sizes, colours, prices and shipping, publish in bulk.