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Run Autopilot: from trends to finished listings

Let Autopilot research what’s selling now, design original products and write Etsy-ready listings.

Video · 2:08 · Recorded Sep 25, 2026

What you’ll learn

  • Starting a run: how many, which products, which shop
  • What the trend research looks at
  • Reviewing each item’s checks before anything goes live

Transcript

Autopilot researches what's trending, designs original products, and writes Etsy-ready listings for you. Here's how to run it.

Choose how many listings to make, and which products. Listings are spread evenly across the products you pick.

Pick the Printify store they go to: the one that's linked to your Etsy shop.

Add a focus if you like, such as dog lovers or cozy autumn. Then choose where ideas come from: the seasonal calendar, news and search trends, social buzz, and your own best sellers.

Every idea is original. Autopilot never copies other sellers, and never scrapes Etsy.

Set the image quality, your markup on the Printify cost, and the minimum profit you want from each sale, after Etsy's fees.

By default, finished listings are saved as drafts for you to review. Or publish automatically: only listings that pass every check go live, and only once you've confirmed Printify is set as your production partner on Etsy.

We'll keep drafts. On the right you'll see exactly what will be made and the estimated credits. Then click Start autopilot.

Research takes a minute or two. Then each listing is designed, checked and created in turn, and this page updates as it goes. Here's a finished run.

Each listing shows its design, title and prices, and the checks it passed: a trademark and policy screen, print file quality, spelling, Etsy's listing rules, and your profit per sale.

Anything flagged waits for you. Open the design or the product to check it, then publish drafts one at a time, or every ready draft at once.

Back on the Autopilot page, the latest trend research shows upcoming events and the opportunities it found, with its sources. Another run today with the same settings reuses it, so you don't pay for research twice.

Up next: tracking your orders.

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