Moving Day…
Well, wait can I actually call it moving day?
More like months. It took me a long time to pluck up the courage to even decide to move my online store. I mean I’ve invested nearly 4 years into my Etsy site. There are so many listings!
I’d be starting from scratch! I don’t have the time!….
Just a few of the many excuses to put it off.
But the reality is COAPA Cut Files really has outgrown Etsy, just the shear number of listings have shot my store fees through the roof and quite honestly there has been weeks I’ve owed Etsy money just because they charge you even when you’re not selling items!
I know right… Go figure. You might have even noticed a small price increase in my listings, that’s because Etsy increased their fees they charge us as sellers and it just wasn’t viable, I held off for weeks before making that decision but I really just had no choice. Etsy as a platform is great when you’re small and just starting out, but it does not grow with you, I don’t like their poor customers service (to all of you) and I don’t like the poor service they offer me, as a business owner. I also have very little control over my actual store.
Aside from all of that Etsy is just a selling platform and I really wanted to offer more to my customers. I did weeks of research and settled on Squarespace as my platform… starting out was difficult. It’s been a long time since I had to get any type of online services up and running but I’m glad I took the time to find out all I needed.
While Squarespace has the option to pull listings from my current Etsy store on to my new site, in reality it only pulled 100 or so, and even this was fraught with agony. This was the realisation I truly was starting from scratch.
…and so begins the weeks of saving digital files. Refreshing images for the new website and creating listings….
It took a lot. It is a lot. But I’m so glad we’re making the move! The store will be opening early and not all of our original listings will be available but that’s okay they will end up here eventually. In the mean time if there is something missing from the new shop you will still be able to find them on the Etsy store.
I hope you enjoy our new space! I hope I can offer so much more in the future… and I hope you all stick around to see what the future holds for COAPA cut files. x
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