Most handmade shop owners start their businesses by selling on Etsy. It’s easy to set up, and if used right, selling on Etsy can put your store in front of thousands of potential customers. But there might a time where you find yourself at a crossroads, wanting to spread your wings and grow your shop beyond Etsy.
If you’re selling on Etsy and ready to start your own website but feel a little overwhelmed by the idea of setting up your own online shop, don’t worry!
Keep reading to find out how you can easily integrate your Etsy shop onto your own website.
This free website planner will help you create a simple yet professional one-page website for your handmade shop.
Note: Etsy Mini no longer works. Please scroll down to learn about Etsy360 instead.
Etsy Mini is a quick and simple tool made by the developers over at Etsy. It lets you select products from your shop items or from your favorites and then display it onto your own website by copying and pasting a code. Don’t worry, you don’t have to have any coding skills at all to use it, it as simple as embedding a youtube video!
This is how it looks like on Shopify:
And this is how it looks like on WordPress:
It is a good option if you’re just getting started with your own site and are not ready to launch your own online store yet but it is in no way similar to having people buying from your website and should not be considered as a long-term option. Eventually, I recommend you build your own store with Shopify or Woocommerce instead.
Related: How to transition from Etsy to your own website, pain free.
Etsy360 is a plugin for WordPress that let you use your Etsy listings and display them on your site as if it was a full e-commerce integrated website… while still only using the Etsy platform. The plugin displays your items per categories and lets your website visitors browse your site as if they were on your own online store. Etsy360 starts at $45 and goes up to $85 if you also want the “cart extension”. This extension lets your visitors add items to a cart page on your site before checking out to Etsy for checkout. This allow for a better shopping experience as your customers can stay on your site and view/add different products to your cart.
Here is an example of a website using etsy360 with the cart extension: https://undercoverotter.com/
The set up is fairly easy, you just need to purchase the plugin and install it on your WordPress site as you would with any other plugin. You can also get helped by the developer and have it installed for you for $18.
The bottom line: If you’re not thinking of using something like Woocommerce or Shopify anytime soon but still want to display your products on your site and offer a “shop-like” experience to your customers, then Etsy360 might be right for you. But if you’re thinking of opening an online shop (for example with Woocommerce or Shopify) sometime soon, then I would save my money and simply use Etsy Mini in the meantime.
I hope this helped, if you have any question feel free to let a comment and I’ll do my best to answer!
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I’ve done this before but link no linger works and I can’t find anything in the Etsy admin that makes a reference to ‘Etsy Mini’. Is this a feature they removed?
Hi Deb,
Great article. Have you tried and tested Etsy360? I was interested based off all the features listed on their website, however after visiting the plugin page on WordPress.com I discovered it has mostly bad reviews. If it works as they describe it would be the perfect solution, it would be nice to get a critique from someone who has used the plugin with more success.
Best wishes,
Be
I have used it without much issues but in all transparency that was a few years back, it might have changed a lot since then. What were the problems mentioned?