EtsyValueError

Description

This is the most common error. It happens to everyone at some point.

This error occurs when a value in your upload breaks Etsy’s rules.

Before your upload reached Etsy, Shop Uploader caught the issue and provided a more detailed error message.

The problem is one of these:

• The value you have uploaded is invalid
• Your product is misconfigured and has the wrong type or category for this value.
  • For instance, you have a physical product with a digital file download.

In most cases the error message will look something like this:

EtsyValueError: Invalid 'title'. Characters not allowed: [$, ^, `].
Column [title] has value '$$$ THIS IS AN INVALID TITLE $$$'
See: https://www.shopuploader.com/docs/template#title

• The first line explains the error is the title column: Invalid ‘title’
• The first line also explains the problem: Characters not allowed: [$, ^, `]
  • This means the title has some disallowed characters, then it lists the disallowed characters
• The second line shows the column again Column [title]
• The second line also shows the value causing the error: value ’$$$ THIS IS AN INVALID TITLE $$$’
• The last line gives a specific docs URL to see the allowed values for this column

Solution

Check the template docs for this column.

For instance, with our above example the template docs for title says:

”Limitations: Cannot use $ ^ `”

And since the example title is: ”$$$ THIS IS AN INVALID TITLE $$$”

To fix this title, we have to remove the dollar signs.