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In my "other life" (when I am not doing contract software development), I help my wife and business partner with our online beading and craft store, 123Bead.com. In addition to selling through our own site, we also sell through Etsy and Artfire.

Erin manages the many listings in our Etsy store, but unfortunately Etsy does not currently have a way to jump directly from viewing an item, to editing that item. To make her life easier (and yours if you have an Etsy store), I have whipped up a "bookmarklet" that provides this functionality.

Step 1: Click and drag the following link into your browser bookmarks (either in your browser toolbar, or up into the bookmark folder): Edit This Etsy Listing

Step 2: Browse to your Etsy store, and view one of your listings.

Step 3: Once you are viewing a listing you would like to edit (it should have "listing_id=NNNN" in the URL), click in your new "Edit This Etsy Listing" bookmark.

Step 4: Make your edits and click "Finish"! Don't forget to click "Finish", or it will move the listing to your "inactive items" list (even if you didn't actually edit anything).

For anyone who is curious about bookmarklet implementation, here is a nicely formatted version of the bookmarklet.

function _get_param(key) {
  var loc=location.search.substring(1);
  if (loc) { 
    var params=loc.split('&');
    for (var i=0;i<params.length;i++) {
      param=params[i].split('=');
      if (param[0] == key) {
        return param[1];
      }
    }
  }
}
if (listing_id = _get_param('listing_id')) {
  window.location = 
    'http://www.etsy.com/edit_listing5.php?listing_id='
    +_get_param('listing_id');
}