The Clay Impress review for Etsy Inventory sync by shopUpz

March 5, 2022

I waited to leave a review until I got a dozen Etsy sales so that I could see if everything worked okay, and it does! I am very happy with this app and the customer service! As I have been setting everything up, I've had to message Shirly a bunch with questions, and she's been super helpful. Order fulfillment is seamless. My Etsy orders show up with my Shopify orders and I just fill them as normal within Shopify. All tracking info is sent to the customer and its super simple. As far as I can tell, inventory synching is working well also! Just a few things to note about the app that I didn't understand when I started using it: - I just assumed that when I changed something in one of my Shopify listings, that it would sync with my imported Etsy one and vice versa. This is not the case. Once you import a Shopify listing to Etsy, no edits to either listing will sync to the other. (This isn't an issue for me. It was just an incorrect assumption on my behalf.) - In order to export listings from Shopify, you need to have a fixed shipping profile set up in Etsy. You'll need to export all of your products to that fixed shipping profile. Once they're exported, you can change the shipping profile to calculated if you would prefer, and the items will synch seamlessly. - This is an Etsy thing, not something specifically about this app: in Shopify, we allow our products to go into negative numbers as we make most of our products to order. This doesn't work with Etsy unfortunately. In order for a product to show as available on Etsy, the inventory has to be 1 or more, otherwise it will show as SOLD OUT. There's no option to "continue selling when sold out," like on Shopify. We changed all of our inventory to be +100, meaning if our inventory is 104, we have 4 items on hand. If our inventory is 98, we have -2 and need to make 2 of that item. Again, this is absolutely not a fault with this app, just something annoying we ran into when going cross-platform with our made-to-order products. And again, Shirly was really very helpful when I came to her about this issue.