Attention Etsy Shoppers: Changes to Checkout

Etsy is hard at work making improvements to their site. We wanted to let our blog-reading customers know about some upcoming changes to the Etsy Checkout system.

According to Etsy’s blog post about its plans for March & April,

… The biggest change is that a buyer will go to PayPal and authorize the payment, then come back to Etsy in order to actually complete the transaction. For more info, see this flowchart on PayPal’s info page.

If you shop on other sites with PayPal, you’re probably used to this, because it’s how most other sites do it.

It sounds like a bigger improvement is in the works from PayPal. This one’s really exciting, in my opinion:

Our ideal Checkout is to have a single payment cover all purchases, even those from multiple sellers. This is on the horizon, as PayPal readies their split payments feature for Express Checkout.

We don’t know exactly when any of these changes will go ‘live’ on Etsy. If you’ve placed an order and have questions about whether your payment has been recorded, you can use Etsy’s convo system to contact us.