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A browser extension that audits every Etsy offsite-ad fee per order and helps sellers dispute charges on orders they never paid to promote

Etsy sellers over 10,000 dollars in revenue are force-enrolled in offsite ads and charged 12 to 15 percent on any order Etsy attributes to one of its ads, with no per-order proof and no easy way to challenge a wrong attribution. This browser extension reads the seller's own Shop Manager and order data, flags every offsite-ad fee against the actual order, shows the true blended take rate across all Etsy fees, and assembles the evidence a seller needs to dispute charges they believe were misattributed. It turns a hidden, unappealable line item into a per-order ledger the seller can actually see and contest.

Demand Breakdown

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Gap Assessment

CompetitiveMultiple tools exist but differentiation opportunities remain

4 tools exist (Craftybase Etsy Fee Calculator, Alura Etsy Fee Calculator, Insight Agent Profit Tracker, Synder) but gaps remain: Explicitly excludes the offsite ads fee, is an input-driven estimator not a per-order auditor, and has no dispute or attribution-checking workflow; Does not read real per-order data from Shop Manager, does not flag misattributed offsite-ad fees, no dispute assembly.

Features6 agent-ready prompts

Per-order offsite-ad fee ledger
True blended take-rate computation
Misattribution flagging engine
Dispute evidence assembler
Offsite-ads ROI breakeven view
Fee change and anomaly alerts

Competitive LandscapeFREE

ProductDoesMissing
Craftybase Etsy Fee CalculatorFree static calculator that estimates listing, transaction and payment fees before you set a priceExplicitly excludes the offsite ads fee, is an input-driven estimator not a per-order auditor, and has no dispute or attribution-checking workflow
Alura Etsy Fee CalculatorWeb fee calculator and Etsy seller research suite for modeling profit on a single listingDoes not read real per-order data from Shop Manager, does not flag misattributed offsite-ad fees, no dispute assembly
Insight Agent Profit TrackerWeb app fee calculator plus a profit tracker that reports actual Etsy shop performanceLives outside Etsy as a separate web app rather than in-context, tracks aggregate profit not per-order offsite-ad attribution, and offers no fee-dispute workflow
SynderAutomated accounting sync and reconciliation that pulls Etsy payouts into bookkeeping and financial statementsAccounting reconciliation for the books, not a per-order offsite-ad fee auditor, no attribution challenge, priced and built for bookkeeping not fee recovery

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