Surely that would be better than always the same shop at the top of the listing as done on monetary value, hard for anyone say selling cards. This way would be fairer, may be fleeting but more interesting for customers rather than the boring same format we have at the moment. All shops should be treated equally and the current method does not do that.
If it was done on number of sales those with higher priced items wouldnât get a look in as they generally sell fewer items. Either way isnât fair imo.
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I agree that replacing the best sellers with a recently sold would mean your item was only featured for a short time. I donât disagree with having a recently sold section but think that perhaps it could be a section underneath the best sellers.
There will never be a perfect system that suits all kinds of shops and I think that the current variety of sections on the home page does feature a good selection across different types of shops.
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The trouble with the Best Sellers makes the rest of look inferior, so either has to stay the same or be changed to last sold. Many of us may only sell one item a month so no different than someone selling one item at a large sum of money but at least would enable the few to be on the front page for longer. Seeing the morbidity every day annoys me intensely. So much doom and gloom letâs have some life on the front page.
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More importantly I think it is time to remove the Ukraine support feature. Just checked and 3 listings were the same seller. Could leave BS as it is and replace this one with Just Sold. ?. Win win really 
Ps one listing I just looked at didnât even mention Ukraine at shop or listing level. Only association was it was blue and yellow. A bit naughty or maybe just badly tagged.
And another⌠Different shop.
Suspect months ago they did have a donate message and therefore valid tags but now only the tag. Definitely time for this section to go. @folksycontent ?
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Iâve seen quite a lot of listings which havenât anything to do with themes etc
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How about having a short list of things that have been sold recently - maybe 10 items or 25 items. This could be programmed in to make the update automatic so that it changed every time there is a sale, the latest ale going in at the top and the bottom one dropping off. This should give a reasonable length of exposure for each seller. It should be reviewed periodically to assess its usefulness.
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I think this would be better too - and with the ânewly listedâ section would give an ever-rotating selection of the huge variety of fabulous crafts on Folksy 
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We did use to have this feature on Folksy when I first started, canât remember why it was taken off but there must have been a reason behind it. I do like to see the best sellers list and often find new shops that I havnt seen before on the list. I think the idea of having both would be a better one, keep the top sellerso but also have recently sold. The recently sold would be ever changing though so nobodyâs items would be seen for very long at all. OrâŚperhaps keep the top sellers (value wise) as it is now with the addition of another list for âmost sold itemsâ per day which could work in the same way over a 7 nightly period. That way we can enjoy both and those sellers who sell a large qty of items at a much lower price will also be on a list.
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Hi Caroline I can see this is an older topic but I was wondering if there was a way of seeing what items had sold this week. The top sellers list doesnt really help. Im curious as to how the exhibitions have gone sales wise, and would like to see what items are selling. I always look at the best sellers list but it changes very little and some of the shopâs images make me wonder especially the empty ones. Id just like to see the items sold, especially when there is an event such as the beautiful bundles and the exhibitions. If anyone knows a way of seeing recently sold id find it helpful thanks
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I agree Christine but sadly nothing was done.
Think the last sold in order would be good as the best sellers are nearly always the same. I did get into the top sellers for a day last week though but very seldom. Folksy could keep the best selling shops but have a section last sold am sure another site does this.
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It is part curiosity and also wondering if the time and effort we put in to promoting Folksy and the Special Events has been worthwhile. I stopped doing Folksy Fridays as they didnt seem to have any effect, although I did 2 this week. If I could see that someone had made a sale it would seem worthwhile again. Im sure the exhibitions must have created sales but the top sellers list doesnt really reflect this
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I know what you mean. I would love to see what is selling/popular. I did well last week and sold my stock of the mini book in the fringe. Also got a large repeat order from a valued customer. I hope that the fringe brought in the 2 sales as they were new customers.
Hence why I think to have to last sold item on the front page would be good. The same old Best Selling Shops can make the front page look stale as if no one buys anything else. There is a new shop at the top atm, which is good but if she slips down goes back to the normal sellers. They are mainly there because of the price point. Did not get enough votes for my suggestion to get any where and sadly have given up on voting suggestions now.
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Thanks thats really good to know !! and congratulations 
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Has my 3 votes. Especially relevant as we never find out whether the Special events have any benefit or not.
Folksy usually after the event tell us about the views but never about any sales resultant from the specific promotion.or otherwiseâŚGoogle Analytics will know and we would like to know too 
I note that when the exhibition first appeared I did make a note of a few shops to see if they actually sold anything⌠as I was rather surprised to see quite a few shops had been chosen to exhibit who had zero sales to date. I just checked and canât see that that situation has changed. 
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Itâs really hard to determine how special events and media exposure influence sales. I think the best way to think of it is any publicity or event might generate interest - so sales could come from that further down the line. On the basis that âdoing something is better than doing nothingâ being proactive and doing a range of things seems to be a sensible approach - but I donât think thereâs a guarantee of sales from any one event.
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Using Google Analytics it is easily possible to track how sales come in. I just identified that a sale of my horse on my other shop came directly from one of the paid site adverts as my GA shows it as cpc = cost-per-click.
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Soz for long post⌠I wonder whether part of the reason that @Folksy doesnât want to show last sold information is because they donât want to encourage makers to be too closely focussed on what other people are selling, which might ultimately lead to less diversity of products.
So, using an exaggerated example, what I mean by this is that if a shop sells a card which shows a cute seal with a party hat on, perched on a rock, then will that encourage other card sellers who havenât had recent sales to then create their âown versionâ of a seal perched on a rock or a seal wearing a party hat but this time on an iceberg rather than a rock and so on? (âThe seal card sold therefore it must be what buyers want???â mentality) Taken to the extreme, at some future point buyers then visit Folksy and see nothing but seal cards, or pottery, or hanging ornaments, bunting in the shape of seals, then penguins wearing party hats, polar bears wearing party hats etc etc etc etc
I must confess I donât see that point of tracking what other shops are doing and what they are selling. It tells me nothing. That sale might have come from a completely random search or from someone who wanted a very specific thing. They might have been referred by the seller as a result of a conversation at a craft show. The buyer may have used google or may have used Folksyâs search tool. Knowing how sales have been generated at a site level gives you nothing for your personal shop.
My advice, for what worth. Spend your time making what you love, creating your own style and your own set of followers. Perfect your photographs, support others in your local area or online. Get your head around analytics. Understand how the traffic works at the moment in your own shop. Use Google analytics if Folksyâs stats donât give you what you need. Donât think Folksy should provide all the answers. Research the costs of building your own website and ecommerce capability and judge Folksy against that. Itâs not perfect but no online site is, because if there was one like that that exists, we would all be there already.
I havenât done any social media posts for months and months and consequently my shop sells very little. Knowing what other people have recently sold will not help me. I know my issue is getting footfall to my shop.
There was a woman who used to be on the forums about 10 years ago and she specialise in giving people honest feedback on their shops. I forget her name (I think it was her name plus Handmade) but some of you may remember. She had a separate website and would look at a shop and give really good, very critical honest feedback - I wish she still existed or that I could remember her name. She left her posts up when she stopped doing the reviews actively. They may well still be there. I could never fault anything she said and I could always find parallels in the advice she gave to others which i could use in my own shop.
Keep going people; you all have lovely products that deserve to be bought.
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EDITED: And just like that, I remembered: Dixie something, Handmade Lives.
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Firstly I love Folksy and all the hard work they have put into creating and curating the exhibitions, and that is why I try really hard along with many others to promote Folksy as a whole.
My reason for asking if there was a way of seeing recently sold, is not really to see what paticular items are selling, but curiosity over the impact of promoting and special events on sales in general.
My main problem is I find it much easier to promote others and really hard to sell myself.
I love volunteering for stewarding at exhibitions and the popup shop im currently taking part in, because I enjoy selling other artists work and hear the stories behind why people have chosen a paticular item. I know I cant get those answers from an online shop but that is probably where my curiosity lies.
I will âtryâ and get my head around Google analytics and I would have loved an honest shop critique, pity she doesnt still do them. I will take a look at the link you posted thank you x
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