BookRouter™ integration
Sell on Etsy from
one catalog.
BookRouter is the inventory platform Bibliopolis builds for booksellers. Connect your own Etsy shop and BookRouter publishes your books there as listings, keeps quantity and price in step as stock sells on your other channels, and brings your Etsy orders back into the same queue you pack everything else from.
Trademark notice
The term 'Etsy' is a trademark of Etsy, Inc. This application uses the Etsy API but is not endorsed or certified by Etsy, Inc.
BookRouter is an independent product of Bibliopolis, LLC and is not affiliated with Etsy, Inc. Etsy is named here only to describe the marketplace this integration connects to.
What it does
Three jobs, handled for you.
Your books are already catalogued in BookRouter. The integration puts that catalog to work on Etsy without asking you to keep a second one by hand.
Your catalog becomes listings.
Books you select are published to your Etsy shop as listings, carrying the title, description, condition, price and photographs you have already recorded. Nothing is re-keyed into a second system.
Quantity and price stay current.
Most antiquarian stock is a single copy. When a book sells on your own website or another connected marketplace, BookRouter updates the quantity on Etsy; when you reprice in BookRouter, the listing follows. That is what stops one copy selling twice.
Orders come back to you.
Etsy orders are pulled into BookRouter next to your website and marketplace orders, so you pack from one queue, print a packing slip, buy a shipping label and keep the tracking number on the order record.
Who it is for
Independent and antiquarian booksellers.
Bibliopolis has built software for the book trade for more than twenty-five years. BookRouter customers are independent bookshops, antiquarian and rare book dealers, and specialist sellers whose stock is largely single copies, described by hand, one book at a time.
Etsy suits that kind of stock. Buyers there are already looking for vintage and one-of-a-kind goods, and a carefully described old book sits naturally among them. What those sellers do not have is time to maintain a second catalog, which is exactly the job this integration takes off their desk.
Connecting your shop
You connect your own shop.
BookRouter never asks for your Etsy password. You authorize the connection on Etsy, and it is yours to end at any time.
Choose Connect in BookRouter.
Etsy appears in the Marketplaces area of your BookRouter admin, alongside AbeBooks, Alibris, Amazon, Biblio and eBay. Choosing Connect sends you to Etsy to sign in.
Approve it on Etsy.
You sign in to your own Etsy account on Etsy, choose the shop you want to connect, and see exactly which permissions BookRouter is asking for before you approve. Your sign-in details are never entered on our site and we never see them.
Decide what gets listed.
Nothing is published until you say so. Choose the books, categories or catalogs you want on Etsy and BookRouter takes it from there, then keeps them current as your stock moves.
Permissions
What BookRouter asks for.
Etsy shows you this list when you approve the connection. It is scoped to running your shop and nothing else.
Your data, your control
Held for fulfillment, and nothing else.
Order and delivery details come into BookRouter so that you can pack the parcel, buy a shipping label and keep a record of the sale. They are stored in your own BookRouter account, alongside the orders from your website and your other channels. We do not sell them, and we do not share them for advertising.
The integration does not write reviews, message buyers on your behalf, or reach any shop other than the one you connected. It works with your listings and reads your orders, which is what it needs to do the job described above.
You can end the connection whenever you like: disconnect in BookRouter, or revoke access from your Etsy account settings. Either one stops it. Your Etsy listings stay in your shop and your catalog stays in BookRouter.
Etsy support is rolling out to BookRouter customers. Tell us about your shop and we will show you how the rest of the platform fits around it.