Saved shops, listings, and the change feed

A single analysis is a snapshot in time. Saving turns that into a running picture. Save the competitors and inspiration shops or listings you care about, and CraftRank keeps checking them for you, then shows you what moved since you last looked. It is the Track phase of the workflow: once you have researched a market and improved your own listings, this is how you keep an eye on it without re-running the same searches by hand.

When to use it

  • You have found the competitors that matter and want to watch them over time.
  • You want to know when a rival's sales, favourites, or views start climbing.
  • A specific listing is worth watching on its own, not just the shop behind it.
  • You are tracking a niche and want an at-a-glance feed of what changed this week.
  • You would rather be told what moved than re-run Shop Analyzer or Listing Explorer on the same list by hand.

What you get

  • A saved list of the shops and listings you are watching, each with its current headline stats.
  • A change feed that surfaces what moved over the last seven days: shifts in a shop's sales, favourites, and active listing count, or a listing's views and favourites, so you see momentum rather than a static number.
  • Weekly refreshes so the picture stays current on its own. CraftRank re-checks your saved items about once a week and records each reading, building the history the change feed reads from.
  • A dashboard summary that merges shop and listing movement into one feed, newest first, so the most recent changes greet you when you open the app, without having to open the Saved page at all.

How to read the results

Start with the change feed. Each entry shows an item and how far it moved over the last seven days, so a rising sales count, a jump in favourites, or a spike in views tells you where to look first. An item with no entry has either not moved over that window or has been saved too recently for CraftRank to have measured one yet.

A saved listing shows views only while it is active or sold out. Etsy reports no view count for a listing in any other state, so views appear blank rather than as a false zero on those listings.

Treat the direction and size of a change as the signal, not the exact figure. As with the rest of CraftRank, the underlying sales and revenue numbers are estimates, so a shop or listing that is clearly pulling ahead is the takeaway, not a precise order count. The one measured value, a shop's own conversion, is the most grounded.

Because readings are roughly weekly, two visits a few days apart can show the same numbers. That is expected: the feed reflects the last time CraftRank checked the item, not the live value on Etsy this second. The seven day figure is adjusted for the gap between the readings behind it, so it always describes seven days even when the two readings sat slightly further apart or closer together than that. This is why an item's movement on the change feed matches the "Last 7 days" figure on its Shop Analyzer or Listing Explorer page.

History only begins at the moment you save something. CraftRank has no record of a shop or listing before you asked it to start watching, so the first week after a save shows no movement rather than a look back at what happened earlier.

Turn it into action

  1. Run Shop Analyzer or Listing Explorer on a competitor and save it from the results.
  2. Build your watchlist with the handful of shops and listings that actually matter to your niche.
  3. Check the change feed on the dashboard each week and note which items are gaining.
  4. When a shop or listing is pulling ahead, open it to see what is driving it, then feed that into your own Listing SEO Audit.

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