The exact SOPs I use to run an Etsy shop. Steal them.

Last November I watched a friend lose a Star Seller badge she'd held for 14 months. Not because her products got worse. Not because buyers stopped liking her. Because she forgot to reply to two messages while she was dealing with a family emergency, and her response rate dropped to 93%. Two messages. Fourteen months of work, gone. The problem wasn't that she was disorganised. The problem was that everything lived in her head. When life interrupted, the system fell apart because there was no system — just habits and memory. The fix wasn't to work harder. It was to write things down. That's what SOPs are. You write down how you do the thing once, correctly, and then you just follow the checklist. No decision fatigue. No forgotten steps. No "I thought I set that shipping profile." Here are the core SOPs every Etsy seller needs. Use them as-is or as a starting point. The listing SOP most sellers skip Most sellers write listings when they're tired, between orders, half-distracted. Then they