Etsy sellers have no control over mandatory offsite ad fees that take a cut of orders they did not pay to promote
Etsy charges sellers a mandatory offsite ads fee, taking a percentage of orders attributed to ads the seller never opted into or controlled, on top of listing, transaction and payment fees. Sellers cannot see clear attribution, cannot meaningfully opt out once over a sales threshold, and have no tooling to audit which orders were charged the fee, whether the attribution was legitimate, or to model true take rate per order across all Etsy fees. The original Hacker News thread when this launched drew 164 points and 22 comments, and the fee structure has only expanded since.
A browser extension that audits every Etsy offsite-ad fee per order and helps sellers dispute charges on orders they never paid to promote
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No tool audits Etsy offsite ad fee attribution per order or computes true blended take rate across all Etsy fees for the seller. A browser extension or dashboard that reconciles every fee against each order is a concrete unmet need.