How do I set up shipping with Etsy?
As our Etsy integration uses shipping profiles, you won’t need to manually set up shipping for your products. The correct shipping rates will automatically be assigned to the product upon publishing if you’re selling in United States Dollars (USD). Alternatively, you can set up free shipping.
Publish the Printify shipping rates to Etsy
All you need to do is select the shipping methods you wish to make available for your product and publish it to your Etsy store.
Since the rates for each product and Print Provider can vary, ensure that you select the “Automatically assign a new shipping profile” option each time you publish a new product:
Please note that, due to an Etsy limitation, there are a few cases in which the Etsy customer may be charged a slightly lower or higher shipping rate than they should have been.
Set up free shipping
Free shipping (with costs included in the retail price) attracts customers and is ideal for products with shipping costs over USD 6.00. Etsy’s algorithm favors items with lower domestic shipping costs, so products with shipping fees above USD 6.00 may rank lower in search results. For products with higher shipping costs, we highly recommend this approach.
You can easily set up free shipping for your Etsy products by using the “Free shipping” toggle in Printify:
When you enable free shipping, the cost of the cheapest shipping option will be subtracted from your current profit margin. For example, if you enable both Economy and Standard Shipping, the cost of Economy Shipping will be subtracted from your profit margin, as it represents the lowest shipping cost.
The Buyer shipping cost column shows the amount the buyer pays for shipping. This amount is not included in the retail price. When free shipping is enabled, only domestic shipping on Etsy will be marked as free. The shipping rates to other destinations will have the domestic shipping cost subtracted from them, resulting in the shipping cost shown in Etsy’s shipping profiles.
Due to a limitation on Etsy, there may be rare cases where the cost of international shipping could slightly exceed the rates indicated on the Shipping Rates page.