Editorial and corrections policy
Last updated: 2026-07-12
Maintained under the Seller Profit Guard editorial policy.
Seller Profit Guard publishes practical, source-linked seller guidance with visible review dates, clear calculation limits, privacy safeguards, correction paths, and disclosure of AI-assisted drafting and testing.
Audience, scope, and independence
Content is written for small marketplace sellers reviewing fees, costs, shipping, advertising, refunds, variations, and statement activity. Seller Profit Guard is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Etsy, Inc. Trademark references identify the marketplace workflow being discussed.
Guides provide operational education and calculator support. They do not provide tax, accounting, legal, financial, investment, or official marketplace-policy advice. Commercial plans, affiliate relationships, sponsorships, or paid placements must be disclosed on the affected page; none should be implied through an unavailable product offer.
Source and review standard
Official marketplace documentation is preferred for program rules, fee categories, exports, Payment Account behavior, and refunds. Seller records are the authority for actual charges, label costs, labor, materials, and private business assumptions. Secondary sources may help explain a workflow but should not override an official rule or the seller's statement.
Evergreen guides show a last-reviewed date. A review checks source links, examples, calculations, product availability, privacy wording, internal links, and whether the page still answers one distinct search intent. A review date is not a guarantee that an external platform did not change afterward.
- Use direct official links for claims that can change.
- Separate examples from current fees and seller-specific facts.
- Avoid invented testimonials, results, customers, credentials, or revenue claims.
- Remove or consolidate pages that duplicate search intent.
- Keep calculations editable when one universal rate would be misleading.
AI assistance and human accountability
Automation and AI may assist with outlines, drafting, consistency checks, code, test cases, metadata, and monitoring. AI output is not treated as a source. Public factual claims must still be checked against accessible evidence, and examples must not be presented as observed customer outcomes unless genuine, consented evidence exists.
The Seller Profit Guard Editorial Team remains accountable for the published page, source selection, calculation boundary, corrections, privacy language, and deployment tests. Private seller or buyer data must not be used to generate public examples.
Corrections and update requests
Report a broken source, calculation concern, unclear assumption, privacy issue, or factual error through the contact page or [email protected]. Identify the public URL, the exact statement or calculation, and a source that supports the correction. Do not attach raw order files or buyer information.
Material corrections should update the page review date and, when they affect calculation logic, privacy behavior, pricing, or a major public promise, receive a changelog entry. Minor spelling or layout fixes do not require a separate release note.
Related resources
- Contact Seller Profit Guard: Send a correction or product issue without private order data.
- Changelog: Review material product, content, privacy, and source updates.
- Calculation methodology: Review formula scope and assumptions.
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- Etsy Profit Audit Checklist and Change Log Template: Use a repeatable Etsy profit audit checklist for sources, mappings, formulas, costs, scenarios, decisions, changes, reviewers, and rollback.
Next step: Report a correction.
This is operational planning help, not tax, accounting, legal, financial, or platform-policy advice. Review the Terms and disclaimer, and verify current platform rules and fee assumptions before changing prices.