Etsy’s recent announcement on their blog regarding instant downloads for sellers of digital products made me happy dance all around my house. I don’t know about you, but this is going to make my life sooooo much easier.
I create blog/website backgrounds and printables that I used to have to email out once they were purchased from my Etsy shop, Renovation Alley. Sometimes, if someone from around the world in Australia purchased a background around 1pm their time, which is in the middle of the night for me, I wouldn’t get the order til I woke the next day. I know when I buy a digital product I want it quickly, and I always felt bad for their wait time. Even if the buyer was someone in my local time zone, I’d have to go get their email address from the receipt, head to gmail, find the file they purchased, then email it to them {hopefully I was close to home so I could send it fairly quickly}. Sometimes a customer would email me, upset that they hadn’t received their order, because it went into their spam folder. I would respond and usually they would find it no problem, but still, it was a waste of time for both of us! {UGH! what a pain!}
I am so excited to be able to use the instant download feature, it’s going to save me so much time and energy… which I will be using to create more downloadable digital products for my shop. Knowing that all I have to do is upload them once, makes digital offerings on Etsy manageable for me.
Wanna set up your Etsy shop’s digital offerings to be instant downloads? All you need to do is check out this how to add a digital listing tutorial on Etsy to set up your listings! yay! Thanks, Etsy!
chat soon,
WOW! That is amazing! Do you know if they are charging any kind of extra fee for this? I was planning on starting a shop and looked into this other service that provided these immediate downloads- (they are definitely going to lose a lot of customers now) Its a great move on the part of Etsy!
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