Updated on Sep 30, 2025
Complete error description: “My products in Etsy are in the right shop section but in the wrong Category” “My Etsy listings are in the wrong Category”
Solution: Automatic Category
In the Etsy Publish settings within Nembol, you can select an Etsy category for bulk listing of products.
You can choose from categories used in the last 200 active Etsy listings, or pick the Automatic category, which will assign your next listings to an Etsy category picked by our Categorizing AI based on the keywords contained in the product’s “Category” field in Nembol.
You can of course edit any of this later inside your Etsy account if you so need.
Hence, you can pick your preferred listing category and shop section in Nembol, or let Nembol’s and Etsy’s AIs pick the category automatically.
How to automatically categorize listings on Etsy
When you list an item in your Etsy store manager (see screenshot below), Etsy offers a way to choose a category starting from some keyword. The problem is, you can do it only one item at a time. Not really practicable when you are bulk-listing products from other channels, like eBay or Shopify.
This is why Nembol represents a great solution to list faster and to list on Etsy directly from other platforms such as eBay or Shopify or TikTok Shop, WooCommerce or Amazon.
Nembol automatically picks the category for you
If you opt for Automatic* categorization in your Etsy Publish settings in Nembol,
- Nembol analyzes the keywords in the “Category” field of each of your products and use it as input for Nembol AI categorizer.
- If the category field is empty, Nembol will pick the product title and use it as keywords for the categorization.
If you get your products published in the wrong Etsy category, your best option is hence to add or change text in the category field.
This can be done one by one, or in bulk, by downloading a CSV file from Nembol and using your Excel spreadsheet to mass-edit the category fields of thousands of products at once, then upload the saved CSV back to Nembol.
You can access the category setting in your Etsy Publish settings in your Channels Tab.
This smart solution allows you to save a large amount of time when publishing your listings in bulk on Etsy from other channels such as TikTok Shop, eBay, Amazon, Shopify, WooCommerce, or PrestaShop.
The above bulk-edit of the Category field works only on-publish.
This means that if you import a product from Etsy, modify its Category field content inside Nembol with the objective to list in a specific category in another channel, say TikTok Shop, this change will NOT affect back the category to which the product belongs on Etsy.
