Comparisons
Etsy is a mall with customers already walking. Your site is the shop whose lease you write.
Etsy is a marketplace: they bring browsers, they take fees, they set rules. A Bizzit site is yours to describe. Many makers need both. Pretending Bizzit is "Etsy without fees" is how you starve.
Stay on Etsy if discovery inside that mall is the business. Add a Bizzit site when you want a URL, a story, and checkout on your account without a marketplace cut from us. Read Etsy's current seller fees on their site.
What Etsy is
Etsy is a marketplace with listing rules, ads, and seller fees that change. We will not paste a fee table that goes stale. Open their seller handbook.
What a Bizzit shop is
A shop brief can fill a catalog from the niche with supplier shapes, not scraped Etsy listings. Pro checkout is your payment account. No Bizzit sales cut. Overnight jobs are on Pro.
Who should stay Etsy-first
Stay if you need their search traffic and you accept their fees and policies. Stay if you are not ready to do your own demand (ads, Instagram, a QR, a market stall).
Who should add an owned site
Add a site when repeat customers ask for a direct link, when you want hours and a maker story that is not a listing template, or when you sell services plus goods.
What we will not pretend
We will not scrape Etsy. We will not promise their traffic. We will not hide that an owned site does not come with a mall full of shoppers.
Fees versus $12
Our Pro is $12 a month plus processor fees on your checkout plus a domain line if you buy a name. Etsy's take is a different shape. Compare with your own numbers on the break-even tool, no fake averages.
A table, not a slogan
Empty cells stay empty. We name our prices. We do not invent theirs.
| Job | Etsy shop | Bizzit site |
|---|---|---|
| Where buyers come from | Their marketplace | You (slug, domain, QR, ads you buy) |
| Platform sales cut from us | N/A | None |
| Their seller fees | Check Etsy's public fee page | N/A |
| Our Pro | N/A | $12/mo |
| Scrape their listings | Do not | We do not |
Limits and caveats
Using Etsy photos or copy on your own site can violate their policies and copyright. Write your own listings. Upload your own photos.
If a sentence would require a competitor SKU we have not verified, or a statistic we did not measure, it does not belong here.
What to do after you read this
If this page answered the query, open Create with the nouns from your own business, not a slogan. If it did not, you are probably in the wrong cluster: go back to the blog hub or Comparisons. Do not spin a second URL for a synonym. One intent per page is the whole point of this library.
Tools that actually do this job
These are public pages. Use them when the job is this job. They are not a second product you have to buy.
Primary sources
Questions people actually ask
Can Cipher clone my Etsy shop?
No, and you should not want a scraper. Brief the niche and upload your photos.
Do I leave Etsy?
Not required. Many people keep the stall and the street sign.
Will I get Etsy's traffic on Bizzit?
No. That traffic is rented.
Is dropshipping allowed the same way?
Etsy's handmade/processing rules are theirs. Our dropshipping page is about honest catalogs, not scraping.