Behind the Scenes - A Glimpse to Tax Calculations

In the past, sellers were responsible for managing and fulfilling their own tax obligations. However, more and more jurisdictions...

Nancy Arnold

Jan 3, 2024

Making The Indian Rupee Work For Humans and Databases

As a global marketplace, Etsy offers support for a few dozen international currencies. Recently we decided to add the Indian rupee...

Marco Gaspari

Oct 14, 2022

Plurals at Etsy

Plurals at Etsy If you’ve ever been shopping online and encountered a message like “1 items added to cart” or even “1...

Danielle Grenier

Jun 27, 2022

How Etsy Localizes Addresses

Imagine you’re browsing the web from your overpriced California apartment one day and you find a neat new website with some...

Danielle Grenier

Sep 26, 2018

There and Back Again: Migrating Geolocation Data to GeoNames

People are passionate about where they live. At Etsy we need to keep track of lots of different locations, such as buyers’ billing...

John Marc

Mar 26, 2013

Translation Memory

As we mentioned in Teaching Etsy to Speak a Second Language, developers need to tag English content so it can be extracted and...

Diego Alonso

Dec 5, 2011

Multilingual User Generated Content and SEO

Etsy offers a lot of items from a lot of sellers worldwide. Now since we've started to better support our international members,...

David Bernal

Dec 2, 2011

Localizing Logically for a Global Marketplace

An often-overlooked (or underestimated) aspect of internationalizing a website is determining how to localize for a given visitor....

Eric Bogs

Oct 21, 2011

Teaching Etsy to Speak a Second Language

As an Engineer, it can be quite daunting planning how to translate a website from English into another language. We just finished...

Corey Losenegger

Oct 19, 2011

Internationalizing Etsy: Fostering a Global Marketplace

There’s nothing more frustrating than not understanding what’s right in front of you, as the non-German speakers among us...

Eric Bogs

Oct 8, 2011

Object Oriented CSS with Nicole Sullivan: Thursday June 23

In conjunction with the NY Web Performance Group we're pleased to announce we'll be playing host to Nicole Sullivan this Thursday,...

Marcus Barczak

Jun 21, 2011