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The Your shop API reads your own connected Etsy shops from the data Alura syncs. Some things a seller does on Etsy can’t be done through Etsy’s API at all, and some are left out of this version on purpose.

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Not possible through Etsy’s API

Etsy’s v3 API has no way to do these, so the Alura API doesn’t offer them:
  • Reply to reviews
  • Read or send buyer messages (Etsy’s conversations)
  • Refund or cancel an order
  • Etsy Ads
  • Sales and coupons
  • Etsy’s own shop stats and visits
  • Shop translations
  • Change the shop name
  • Turn vacation mode on or off
  • Edit the About section, the shop icon or the banner
  • Change the order of sections
  • Change the order of featured listings
The order fields you can read, such as message_from_buyer and gift_message, are the messages sent with the order. They aren’t Etsy conversations. Alura’s Chrome extension reaches some of these through the seller’s own browser session, which a server-side API can’t use.

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Not in this version

  • Visits, views and favorites over time. Etsy keeps only lifetime counters, so a listing has its current views and favorites and no history of them.
  • Profit and margin per listing. They aren’t reliable at listing level. Shop stats has profit and margin for the whole shop.
  • Bulk edits and bulk create.
  • Outbound webhooks, such as a call to your server when an order is paid or shipped.
  • Finances as their own resource: payouts and the payment account’s ledger. Shop stats summarizes the ledger by day.
  • Writes. This version reads. Editing, creating and publishing listings, adding shipments and reverting a change aren’t available yet. Starting a sync is the one action, and it only asks Alura to copy your shop again.

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Next steps

Etsy fields

Which Etsy field each Alura field comes from, and what is left out.

Coverage

Why a sales number can be null, and when it fills in.