Earth Song Jewelry review for Shuttle ‑ Sync with Etsy

May 16, 2022

This is the best app I’ve tried (and am still using!) for syncing my products from Shopify to any channel. I’ve tried many other apps that sync to other channels (or only to Etsy). Other sync apps are either too simple, waaayyyy too expensive and/or don’t do anything that I can’t do myself with a csv import. Of course, you can’t do a csv import to Etsy (shame on Etsy!), which is why I was looking for a product sync solution. The Shuttle interface is excellent. It’s easy to understand, easy to set up and easy to use for syncing. Don’t let that fool you - Shuttle has a lot of flexibility in how you can set up your product syncs. You can set flexible rules to manage how your Shopify product details are sent to Etsy. Shuttle does more than simply copy your Shopify data, which I greatly appreciate! For example, I was able to append different product description text specific to Etsy, automatically strip HTML tags from my Shopify description, auto strip description text I didn’t want on Etsy, auto-change my HTML bullet lists into plain text, set up Etsy tags instead of using my Shopify tags, set the standard Etsy fields based on my own rules and more. I also like that I was able to change the Etsy price automatically with Shuttle. If the Etsy API has the property available, Shuttle will let you configure it to your needs. Honestly, there are too many features I appreciate to describe in a review! So far, I have used Shuttle to set up and sync 115 products from my Shopify store to Etsy. Since I am setting up my products on my new Etsy Shop (EarthSongJewelryShop), Shuttle has been a huge help. The only things I need to do manually on Etsy for my products are: add the category-specific fields that Etsy does not allow apps to access (this is Etsy’s bad policy) and set my image alt-text fields for SEO. I wish that could be done via an app, but Etsy does not expose those fields via their API - so no one can access them except by manually editing on Etsy. Oh - I also want to mention that support is excellent thus far. I was initially testing Shuttle out (not paid yet) and found that I couldn’t auto-strip some common text from my Shopify descriptions before syncing them to Etsy. I was amazed that Shuttle immediately ADDED this functionality to their app based on my support ticket! That is great! Now I am able to strip out those lines of text I don’t want on Etsy. Personally, I found the information about what was included with each plan very clear. I have signed up for the $9/month “Standard” plan. After testing out other solutions, this is truly a great price for a great app! Thanks much! c-