Even more EtsyHacks

Our pal at EtsyHacks has added even more hacks since our original post on the 3rd! If he wasn't married we'd totally do him.

You have to run Firefox and install this extension, or install this into Safari, for these to work.

Get a load of the full list - it should shame Etsy that ONE man has made all these in mere DAYS. Some of these are so simple he said it took longer to make the page about the tool than to make the tool itself.

subtotals
Adds item and shipping subtotals to your receipt pages.

quote post
Adds a 'quote this post' link to each post in the forums.

forum user links
Adds links to a user's profile, the "heart this user" function, and links to send them a convo and see all the convos you've had with them.

cancel transaction
Adds links to cancel transaction from the sold orders and view transaction pages.

edit this item
Adds "edit item" and "delete item" links to the View Listing page when viewing an item in your shop.

transaction id to url
Change the text "Transaction ID# ..." for each item on the "printer-friendly" receipt page into a URL.

printable receipt enhancer
Apply IDs and class names to elements on the printable receipt page, so that you can use stylesheets to change the appearance of the page. Change the font size, hide sections, change colours, add a logo - see the example stylesheets for examples.

convo linker
Automatically turns the text "listing #..." or "transaction #..." in a convo into a link. Useful for when a customer uses the "contact the seller" link to send you a convo.

buyer info
Add extra information to the "buyer" box on a receipt page - a link to convos with that user, a link to their feedback page, a link to send them a convo, and a link to their email address.

printer-friendly linker
Add a link to the "printer-friendly" receipt view for each order on your orders page, next to the link to the regular receipt.

Many of the original ones have been updated, so if you got yours last week be sure to click the install button on them again to make sure you have the most current copy.

EtsyHacks - FINALLY!

Hurrah! Finally someone has created some Greasemonkey scripts for Etsy! And of course the husband of an Etsy seller had to be the one to do it. We love developers who make tools for sellers that Etsy can't/won't make so I was sure to rush over to post this.

If you don't know, Greasemonkey is a killer plugin to Firefox that essentially adds functions to pages. There are a few hundred for Flickr that streamline things immensely, and personally I find a number of them essential and I'm lost if I use a computer without them. Now there are some for Etsy!

There are a number of them to be had - here's the descriptions:

printable receipt enhancer
Apply IDs and class names to elements on the printable receipt page, so that you can use stylesheets to change the appearance of the page. Change the font size, hide sections, change colours, add a logo - see the example stylesheets for examples.
(This one is more for techno saavy folks... you have to know some css to enter into it.)

transaction id to url
Change the text "Transaction ID# ..." for each item on the "printer-friendly" receipt page into a URL.
(especially helpful for cancelling transactions!)

convo linker
Automatically turns the text "listing #..." or "transaction #..." in a convo into a link. Useful for when a customer uses the "contact the seller" link to send you a convo.
(I have dreamed of this since day one... when they write about a item, you know what one!)

buyer info
Add extra information to the "buyer" box on a receipt page - a link to convos with that user, a link to their feedback page, a link to send them a convo, and a link to their email address.
(This is AWESOME. Links the email, ads links to send a convo, and to jump to convos from that buyer!)

printer-friendly linker
Add a link to the "printer-friendly" receipt view for each order on your orders page, next to the link to the regular receipt.
(This one speeds things up and saves you a couple clicks!)

Don't let the scripts word throw you off, getting and installing Greasemonkey could not be easier! If you can click a link or button, you can do it.

1. If you are runnning Firefox, go here, then click the "Add to Firefox" button.
2. Firefox will pop up a dialog box asking you to confirm that you want to install Greasemonkey - click on "Install".
3. Restart Firefox (See that part was easy!)
4. Next go to the Greasemonkey scripts for Etsy page... and click on the name of the ones you want.
5. The next page you will see an install button... when it's ready to click, click it. DONE! Go back and add another!
   

Seriously that's it folks! Click the install buttons! Done!

I love this so much I want to have it's babies.

(edit: BTW, if you want to find this site later, you can find it listed in our EtsyLinks on the left, and under "etsyhacks" or greasemonkey" in our labels)