Etsy Clover integration that keeps the register and the marketplace in step

Etsy permits two option types per listing and will not stretch. A product that the Clover till sells by size, colour and material has to come down to two before Etsy will take it, and choosing which two is a question about your catalogue rather than a switch anybody can throw. Merging two of them into one option with a compound name is the common answer, though what you call it is yours to decide.

Do this before stock starts moving. Reshaping variants on a live listing means the SKUs underneath them change, and every SKU change is another chance for the two sides to stop recognising each other. An afternoon deciding how a three-option product should look on Etsy costs far less than untangling counts that drifted apart around a rename nobody wrote down.

Clover has no equivalent limit, so nothing needs to change on the till side. That is the general shape of this pair: Clover is the roomier of the two on almost every measure, and Etsy is where the rules come from. Read Etsy’s constraints as the design brief and the Clover side will accommodate whatever you decide to do.

Clover will hold a SKU of 100 characters. Etsy takes 32. That is a real gap, and 32 goes quickly if your codes were built out of words rather than shortened on purpose. Give Etsy more than that and it keeps the first 32, which names nothing on either side, so the count for that item quietly stops moving while the connection still looks healthy.

One code on two listings is the other thing Etsy refuses. It reads them as duplicates, flags ‘Multiple same SKU’ and holds both back, on the grounds that a single count cannot be split between two listings honestly. Give each listing a code of its own and they join in. Leave them sharing one and they stay out, for a reason rather than by accident.

One more thing to know before you route posted orders through the till. Clover has no field for a tracking number, so we cannot write one back into it, and the tracking stays in QuickSync. If your process is for someone to open Clover and read the number off the sale, that is the process to change first.