If you’ve been thinking about closing your Etsy shop, now is the time to do it. Here are five tips to help make the process as smooth as possible:

  1. Make a plan. Before you close your shop, make a plan for what you want to do with the space. Do you want to keep the shop open as a gallery or archive? Do you want to sell any remaining inventory or give everything away? Once you have a plan, write it down and stick to it.
  2. Get organized. Once you have your plan, it’s time to get organized. You need to know how much money you have left in the bank, what items are still for sale, and which items are no longer available (or only available in limited quantities). If there are any fees associated with closing your shop (such as listing fees or shipping costs), be sure to calculate those too.
  3. Clean up your shop. Once you have all of this information handy, it’s time to start cleaning up your shop! Remove all of the clutter – including old listings, expired products, and unwanted donations – and make sure everything is in its proper place. This will help streamline the closing process and make it easier for customers to find what they’re looking for.
  4. Make a final sale/giveaway campaign. Once everything is clean and organized, it’s time for one final sale/giveaway campaign! This can be an exciting way to say goodbye (or thank you!)to your fans and followers while also clearing out some inventory at the same time! Be sure to set a date for this event and let everyone know about it so that they can join in on the fun!
  5. Close your shop properly. Finally – once everything is ready – close your shop properly! This means setting up an automated system that will send customers their final purchase receipts (and any other relevant ..

You can make your sold listings page inaccessible to customers by following these two steps. Go to Shop Manager > Settings > Options. Scroll down to the Sold Listings area at the bottom of this page. Under “Would you want visitors to be able to view these?,” choose the option for “No, hide them.”

When you’re on vacation, Etsy turns your store into a “closed” mode. You won’t be able to accept orders while in Vacation mode because the purchase button is disabled. During this period, your shop listings are also hidden from search.

Some Etsy store owners recognized that if they leave their business closed for more than 30 days, it is as if they are starting from scratch. Consider how difficult those initial four to six months were in establishing your Etsy shop.

Etsy has maintained that vacation mode has no impact on your shop or its ranking, but in the time you are on Etsy vacation mode, your store’s relevance and quality score will be lost.

If you don’t update the expiration date, this most often happens when it expires and you haven’t refreshed it. You will not get a deposit if it isn’t chargeable. In any case, you won’t be able to terminate the account until the payment account shows a zero balance.