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Etsy listings reward personality, and typing a hundred listings kills personality first. Typally puts your words into Etsy the moment you release the key, in whichever field you left the cursor.
We make Typally, so treat this as a vendor's guide. Where Etsy has a built-in option we say so, including when it is the better choice.None. Listing titles, descriptions and messages are typed.
Etsy buyers are buying from a person, not a warehouse. The story behind an item is the differentiator, and it is precisely what gets cut when you are listing your fortieth item at eleven at night.
In practice people use it for: Listing descriptions, shop announcements, replies to buyer questions, and custom order conversations.
Typally runs in the background and types into whatever window has focus, so there is nothing to install inside Etsy:
Grab the build for your platform and create an account.
Put the cursor in the field you are about to fill — Etsy decides where the text lands, not Typally.
The recording lasts exactly as long as you do.
Etsy's description box strips most formatting. Dictate plain prose and use line breaks rather than markup.
Typally types into Etsy's listing and message fields, so telling each item's story — the materials, the flaw you left in on purpose — costs about as long as telling it out loud. That story is what Etsy buyers are paying for, and it is the first thing that gets cut when you are typing your fortieth listing at midnight.
A maker listing twelve new pieces talks through each one — the wood, why the grain runs that way, the fact that no two are identical. It takes twenty minutes for all twelve, and the descriptions sound like the person who made them.
Tell each item's story out loud — where the materials came from, what went wrong the first time you made one. That is what Etsy buyers pay for, and it is unbearable to type at volume.
Etsy's description box strips most formatting. Dictate plain prose and use line breaks rather than markup.
No. All listing fields are typed.
Yes. The message box is an ordinary text field.
Detail helps buyers decide and reduces the questions you have to answer individually. Whether it moves search ranking is Etsy's business, not something we can claim.
The free plan gives you 100 minutes a month without a card — enough to find out whether talking beats typing for you.
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