How I Create Etsy Listings for POD Products with Mockups

Part 2 of How I Opened My Print on Demand Store + Shop Optimization, Sales, & More

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*Complete part 1 before reading part 2.

Now that you have your design complete and your product prepared, you need a platform to publish it on! In this post I’ll show you how to set up your Etsy shop step-by-step. This includes linking it to your Printify account, optimizing your new shop, editing a listing, creating mockup images, and much more.

Let’s dive right into it!

OPEN AND OPTIMIZE YOUR ETSY SHOP

#1 OPEN YOUR SHOP

Open an Etsy account using your print on demand business e-mail.
On your new account, click “sell on Etsy,” and then “open your Etsy shop.”
You will be taken through these few steps before your shop is published:

1. Shop preferences
   Select your shop’s language, country, and currency.
2. Name your shop
3. Stock your shop
   You cannot connect a Printify listing to your shop yet, so create a false listing and delete it later.
4. How you’ll get paid
   This is the account where your earnings will be deposited into…