Shapeways Launches Etsy E-commerce Integration

Hello Shapeways Community,

We are delighted to announce our newest initiative for businesses using Shapeways, Etsy E-commerce Integration. This seamless integration will enable users with Etsy shops to directly manage orders and fulfillment straight from Shapeways. This partnership also gives the members of our community who may not be current Etsy users an opportunity to set up their own shop, easily import their Shapeways products to Etsy, and expand their customer base.

This integration allows for users selling on Etsy to automatically push their orders to Shapeways and then ship directly to themselves or to their customer.

Ola Shektman, Shapeways community member as well as Creator and Designer of Cityscapes Rings, helped to test our integration and provide feedback. We were thrilled to hear her thoughts.

“Etsy is one of the easiest ways to open a small business and offers an incredibly large market of ready to buy customers,” said Ola Shektman, “Before the Etsy E-commerce Integration, it took 5-6 minutes to place an order for my Etsy customers. This integration is magic, orders are placed automatically so I can spend more of my time working on new ideas and designs.”

We can’t wait to see how this new e-commerce integration helps to free up your time to delight your customers and grow your business. You can get started now by setting up your free Etsy E-commerce Integration on the Shapeways E-commerce Integrations page.

If you have any questions about the integration, please share here or service@shapeways.com.

Thank you,
Greg

Hello - this is very possible now! Through the integration you are able to set whether products are shipped to your address or to your customers address. If you set the latter, orders will automatically ship to them even if they are not in your country.

Hello lawrencekramer2014 - Etsy charges listing fees on a per listing basis. In your description, ring sizes and material options would be variants (Etsy calls them variations) but having multiples of these will not change your listing fee for that specific listing. You can find more details on Etsy's fees in their tutorials, with an example here: https://help.etsy.com/hc/en-us/arti...-for-Selling-on-Etsy-?segment=selling#listing

Hello Ontogenie - through the integration you can set it so that all orders are shipped to you first. This is found in the settings menu under the "Order Fulfillment" section.

Hello Qwar - great questions! Hope these answers help:

1. We offer many materials and finishes on which we have information here: https://www.shapeways.com/materials. One advantage of the Etsy integration is that you are able to sell in materials that are maker-only and are not available on our marketplace, such as our recently launched TPU and Multi Jet Fusion Plastic PA12 Glass Bead.

2. The Etsy integration does not have any additional charges. A good way to think about this is that whatever price you set on Etsy for your product, that's the price you will receive from your customer on Etsy (after Etsy's fees which we don't control). The integration then places the order on Shapeways with the various settings you select. In the listings tab, when you edit a specific variant, you will see the Shapeways base price and some additional fees shown after you've mapped your model and selected your materials.

3. This is not restricted to sellers in the US - it's available to all of our Shapeways customers. One thing to note is that there are some countries that Shapeways cannot service, so if an order comes in on Etsy from a customer in that country, we would not be able to fulfill it. The list of non-serviceable countries can be found here: https://www.shapeways.com/support/shipping/

Hello Francesco_and_Lorenzo - You have total flexibility with this. After you connect your Etsy store to the Shapeways, you will your existing Etsy listing in the integration and you will be able to map the Etsy listing to it's Shapeways model and material. This way does not involve your Shapeways marketplace products at all.

The other way you can do this is to import all of your public, for sale products from the Shapeways marketplace into Etsy. In this way, you would create a duplicate product that you would have to publish and activate.

You can find additional details on creating or importing products in our help center https://www.shapeways.com/support/etsy and the setup guide here: https://static1.sw-cdn.net/files/cms/how-it-works/etsy-app-set-up-guide-20190415.pdf

Hello numarul7, thank you for raising this concern!

I understand being charged before receiving payment from a customer can potentially be problematic. Our integration offers an option to fulfill orders manually. So you can wait until you get paid by Etsy before processing the order through Shapeways.

You can find this option on the "Etsy Settings" page:
https://www.shapeways.com/sales-channels/settings/1022

Also worth mentioning is that Etsy offers a "daily deposit" schedule. For Europe, the minimum amount to receive this daily deposit is 20 Euros.
https://help.etsy.com/hc/en-us/arti...8227157bc199905b058256856c74a&segment=selling

If you have any questions, please reach out to us via storefronts@shapeways.com