My Journey to Having Etsy Shop Listings
on February 5th, 2012 at 9:24 pmI have a plain business Paypal account hooked to my gmail email account.
I had my daughter use her Paypal acct to send me $10 – it cost her 59 cents to do so – I plan to use my Paypal account to pay my listing fees so it has to have money in it PLUS I wanted to KNOW that email address would accept the Etsy payments too 
I had created an Etsy account already but don’t think I had actually created having a shop part of the acct until last nite. I had to input a valid bank card in it to open the shop part – they ran thru a transaction charge for $1.01 … sigh … but they also did a reversal of the charge right away too.
I am not finished filling out all the various settings and places needing info yet … for example I still need to create shop policies … just the major required ones for having an acct & shop, including putting in my SD tax rate – I’m going with the state rate since it is VERY complicated with all the various places with various tax rates …. I will just pay any additional tax when I sell items and find out where the customers are located … I am not sure that putting in zip code ranges would give valid tax rate info and I feel it is much better for me personally to pay a few extra in tax than to risk overcharging my customer.
My best advice is … do not create listings first right away … click on every link for everything everywhere at least once to see if it needs info then get the info in there first I prefer being organized and ready when the products are online being sold.
Since I plan to sell some watercolor paintings too, I wrote a blog article about caring for them to use the link as part of my email to buyers … it gets them the info I think they need but it also gives them my blog info!
Next … I have to write shop policies … I need to take better product pictures of my silk scarves, to upload them to my Barbara Burns Art Etsy Shop, write descriptions and list them for sale!