REMOVING PROCESSING TIMES FROM SHIPPING PROFILES - NIGHTMARE - MISSING SOMETHING???

[#1]

Etsy has removed the processing time from the shipping profiles and to be blunt - this is HORRIFIC. I cannot express how bad of an idea this is... I have over 700 AD's - that all fit into specific shipping profiles with specific processing times within those profiles. I often have to change my processing times due to volume of orders - especially during prom.

So with this new "feature" I will be required to go into EACH INDIVIDUAL AD to edit the processing time??????

So this can not longer be done in bulk???

Or am I missing something???

This will be an absolute NIGHTMARE.

Jenny

[ChillwolfArt]

@GlitteramaCrafts  Mine was there when I Signed In earlier. It had a tab, "Learn More". I X'd it out because I read everything about it yesterday, after seeing this Thread. I thought we all got the Announcements in our Dashboards the same time. I bet you get it later.

[AmoreTreasure]

So do we know which listings are included in the "applied to listings" under "Your Processing Profiles" in Shipping Settings?  When I add up the counts of the listings they updated it doesn't match ANY combination of Active, Draft, Sold Out, Expired, and inactive on listing manager!

[ChillwolfArt]

@AmoreTreasure  I went through it yesterday after seeing this Thread, so I hope the following helps you:

(To see how many listings are applied to Processing Profiles); I'll use mine as an example:
-Shop Manager > Settings > Shipping Settings
   -Your Processing Profiles
   -Ready to Ship (1-3 days)
   -(Applied to 23 listings)
*Yesterday, it said, "Applied to 4 listings". I had to go in and apply the others. For some reason (my error), mine wasn't set for all of my listings, only the Sold Out ones. 

I went into Listings, selected "Inactive", and did the following (of course, you will check "Active", "Inactive" and "Sold Out"):
   -Editing Options
   -Processing Profile, and applied it.

Hope this helps. It took me a while to figure out what the devil I was doing:)   

[PrairiePrimitives]

@AmoreTreasure I've already fixed mine but do you see a column labeled "Active Listings?" If you have that, click on the number and you'll see which listings Etsy has put in that profile.

98% of the 900+ listings Etsy had divvied up between their new profiles were OOAK items that had sold YEARS ago.

I had a lot of shipping profiles I'd created myself over the years. However, because Etsy has coerced me into using calculated shipping or not charging more than $5.99 for domestic shipping, I deleted all of the profiles with 0 listings. Then I had 5 or 6 "new" shipping profiles which Etsy had created. only 2 were relevant so I edited the others (even though they were mostly sold items) and changed them to 1-2 day shipping and ready to ship; this moved those listings into the profile with those settings. Got them cleaned up in 5 minutes once I figured out a strategy. And now, when I add up the numbers in the "Active Listings" column, I have a total of 50, which is what it should be. 

[AmoreTreasure]

@ChillwolfArt Thank you.  Here's my problem: I see how many listings are applied in -Shop Manager > Settings > Shipping Settings.  It's showing 5604 Ready to ship (1 day) and 880 Ready to ship in (1-2 days) so that's a total of 6584 listings.  When I go to listing manager, I have 508 active listings, 4819 drafts, 250 expired, 6199 sold out and 142 inactive.  The numbers don't add up and there is no indication under "Your processing profiles" in shipping settings that I can see that identifies the status (active, drafts, etc.) of the listings they modified.  So it appears they haven't set the processing profiles on all but how do I know which ones?

Of course my primary concern is my active listings and I've reviewed them and think(?) they look good but don't have a ton of confidence until I review them all.  And even if they look good now, there is no way other than look at each active listing individually to review the processing profiles to see if they are setup correctly.

In addition, I'm still concerned about my non-active listings as well.  I rarely ever create a new listing, I pull from drafts, sold out, and expired listings as well as active to use as a templates and would like these to be setup correctly in terms of processing profiles.  

@PrairePrimitives, thanks for your reply.  If I'm understanding you correctly, I see how I can determine how many active, drafts, etc. listings are assigned to SHIPPING profiles but there is no way I can see to determine which listings are assigned to the PROCESSING profiles they setup on Listing Manager other than looking at each listing individually.  If I try to find that under "Your processing profiles" in shipping settings, there is no way to filter based on active/draft/sold out etc.

[ChillwolfArt]

@AmoreTreasure  You're absolutely right, and I don't know the answer, sorry. The only way I was able to figure out mine was, I have 23 listings (far, far less than you). Nothing is Active, 4 were in Sold Out and 19 Inactive.
I could see nowhere in "Listings" (Editing Options at the top, or anything in the Right Column), that told me which ones were missing "Processing Profiles".
It was an accident when I stumbled upon:
Shop Manager > Settings > Shipping Settings > Processing Profile. And I was stumped to see it applied to 4 listings only. So I knew they must be the Sold Out ones. After that, I selected the rest (19 Inactive), and applied the Processing Profile to them (thru Listings > Editing Options at top > Processing Profile).

When I went back into the Shop Manager (Settings > Shipping > Processing Profile), the verbiage changed to "Applied to 23 listings". Otherwise I would not know that it took.
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**I hope someone will be able to answer your question.

[timelapse]

Just went through anything I had listed new in the past week....all set for 1-2 days by Etsy instead of my normal 3-5 days on all my older listings. Had to update each one individually. Thanks, Etsy for yet another time waster!

[bradgoodell]

Thank you to everyone who has offered ideas and solutions.  

We need to keep this thread active for those who will be discovering this delight over the next few days.  They will need it.  

[ChillwolfArt]

(I posted the following above, and I hope this helps someone): After seeing this Thread yesterday, I went thru my settings.

*(To see how many listings are applied to Processing Profiles); I'll use mine as an example:
-Shop Manager > Settings > Shipping Settings
   -Your Processing Profiles
   -Ready to Ship (1-3 days)
   -(Applied to 23 listings)
*Yesterday, it said, "Applied to 4 listings". I had to go in and apply the others. For some reason (my error), mine wasn't set for all of my listings, only the Sold Out ones. 

I went into Listings, selected "Inactive", and did the following (of course, you will check "Active", "Inactive", and "Sold Out"):
   -Editing Options
   -Processing Profile, and applied it.

Hope this helps. It took me a while to figure out what the devil I was doing:)   

[ClassicMemories]

Thanks @ChillwolfArt  I did just as you said, but I must have missed some because my number total is off. Have to go back and figure out where I didn't apply them.

Appreciate you being so helpful.

[ChillwolfArt]

@ClassicMemories  My pleasure. I missed some too. For some reason, mine said it was applied to 4 listings (Sold Out), but not to the other 19 Inactive ones. So I had to go back in and apply it to those. I must have done something wrong last Fall (have no idea what:)

[AmoreTreasure]

@ClassicMemories, I'm having the same problem.  The numbers just don't add up so I don't know if Etsy set the processing profiles on all of the listings. 

The other thing that has occurred to me is that up to this point I've been able to filter the "processing profiles" based on my shipping profiles (because I had multiple shipping profiles solely because of different processing times) but now that I've set the listings that have different processing profiles under the same shipping profile, how in the world will I be able to check on, and edit if necessary, the processing profiles assigned to my listings without reviewing each listing individually???  

[ClassicMemories]

For me, I think I have to go to my sold items and maybe my draft items to see if they are missing from the count. If that doesn't work, I have no idea where I may be going wrong.

This is quite a mess for many here.  It is very frustrating to not fully understand how this works and how they will roll it out. It would be nice if they actually explained why now we have to do this and to what end.  

[FunkyJunkyVintage]

Ah, yes. We haven't had a good "education by ambush" in a while, how fitting to drop this bomb right before a holiday weekend.

This article on what's what is dated yesterday, 5/21/25, so you know they didn't give a rip about the timing and what this might mean for sellers.

https://www.etsy.com/seller-handbook/article/1365440340257?ref=SellerDashboard&refid=1366669256292

Sigh.

[ChillwolfArt]

@FunkyJunkyVintage  I like how it reminds you  (towards the bottom), how items under $6.00 Shipping are prioritized in search. That leaves me out:)

[ClassicMemories]

Thanks @FunkyJunkyVintage  for that link.

What I don't understand is why it all needs to be done by that date. Does that lock me into never being able to  have a different processing profile here? 

[ChillwolfArt]

@ClassicMemories  I too wondered about that date being a deadline. Don't know for what purpose the due date serves. 

[Adorabilities]

I think May 27 is when Etsy is going to publish the processing times that they have set for our shops, if we don't edit them.

Also, we're supposed to choose from:
Made to order (item needs order details to create or personalize)
or Ready to Ship (item is already made)

Hopefully this doesn't actually matter, as many of my items are neither: not yet made, but not needing any personalization details. 

[GraceNotesbyCindy]

@Adorabilities Same here. I chose “made to order” because I usually don’t print the cards until they are ordered but there is no customization or personalization. 

[ClassicMemories]

I tried my best to figure out where the other missing listings were that were not accounted for in my number changed to the new way.

I can't seem to make it work correctly. I have a very few listings active currently, but I have many listings in drafts as well as inactive and sold out.

I can not bear the thought of all of them not working due to this new issue going on.

Giving me a migraine trying to get this right.

[ClassicMemories]

Thank  you!

[KanjaniCraft]

If using bulk edit please check and check again.

i bulk edited my listings and after spending 10min going through 8 pages of listings changing processing times by group using Bulk Edit I have just discovered that it didn’t work AT ALL. 

It appeared to work at the time. As in no obvious evidence of a glitch whilst I was doing it. But when I came back to check - I found it actually hadn’t worked at all. So all my listings still have the generic 1-2days which Etsy arbitrarily applied to all of them, and now I need to manually change all of them - one by one. 

Because I’m obviously twiddling my thumbs and just waiting for something pointless to do for 3 hours…

[bradgoodell]

Thanks for the advice, I'm going to go back and check mine. 

[bradgoodell]

I went back and checked mine in batches, and I found a few in the wrong processing times.  These are listings I am sure I changed.

Going to follow this very closely, I'm sure there are others.

[Kleighvintage]

I did notice on the quick edit setting on the listing page, you can no longer edit the package size and weight. You would need to open each listing to correct it. I used that tool often and will miss it. Also, I am unable to bulk edit any prices or make change to shipping profiles ect. 

With the $6 or less shipping charge having priority in search; does anyone know if that now includes calculated shipping too?