Protect your Etsy shop from hidden compliance violations.
Scan listings for trademark violations, banned items, and policy risks — with live USPTO trademark verification — before Etsy flags you.
ListingSafe is a free Etsy compliance scanner that checks your listing titles, descriptions, and tags against 1,000+ trademarked terms and Etsy policy rules before you publish.
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Watch how ListingSafe catches trademark violations in seconds — before Etsy does.
What We Check For
Our AI cross-references your listings against trademark databases, Etsy policy rules, and prohibited item lists.
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Trademark Violations
Brand names and logos that could trigger DMCA takedowns. Live-verified against the official USPTO trademark database.
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Intellectual Property
Characters, franchises, and copyrighted designs.
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Prohibited Items
Materials and products banned by Etsy policy.
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Handmade Policy
Listings that may violate Etsy's handmade/vintage rules.
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Safety Standards
Products that require regulatory compliance disclosures.
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Medical & Health Claims
Unsubstantiated health or therapeutic benefit claims.
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Listing Practices
Misleading descriptions, keyword stuffing, and fee avoidance.
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Authenticity & Counterfeits
Replica or counterfeit product language that violates policy.
How It Works
Get compliance results in under 10 seconds.
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Paste Your Title
Enter the title and description of the listing you want to check. No account needed for the free scan.
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AI Scans Your Listing
Our AI checks against Etsy policies and prohibited item lists, then cross-checks suspicious brand names against the live USPTO trademark database in real time.
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Get Actionable Results
Receive a detailed compliance report with specific issues and recommendations to fix them.
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Scan right from your Etsy dashboard
The ListingSafe Chrome Extension lets you scan any listing without leaving Etsy.
The free plan gives you 20 scans per calendar month at no cost — no credit card required. Each scan checks one listing's title, description, and tags against our trademark database and Etsy policy rules, and returns the same flagged issues that paid users see. Free users can also use batch CSV upload (export your listings from Etsy Shop Manager and upload the CSV) and download results as a CSV report. USPTO live lookup and AI image scan are paid features (Basic $9/month, Pro $29/month). The scan counter resets on the first of each month; unused scans don't roll over. For most sellers doing an initial shop audit, the free tier covers the highest-risk portion — trademark problems typically concentrate in the top 15–20 active listings by views, which is where enforcement actions start.
Manual checking means searching the USPTO trademark database, reading Etsy's House Rules and Prohibited Items policy, and remembering which generic-sounding words are actually registered trademarks — Frisbee, Chapstick, Crockpot, Onesie, Velcro, Band-Aid, Popsicle, and dozens more. You'd repeat this for every listing. ListingSafe scans a title, description, and tags against 1,000+ trademarked terms, flagged phrases (such as "Boy Mom" or "Hot Girl Walk"), and Etsy's prohibited categories in under 10 seconds, then returns each issue with a specific fix recommendation. For Basic and Pro users, suspect brand-like words are also cross-checked against the live USPTO database for a definitive answer. Manual searches also miss phrase-level trademarks entirely — "Boy Mom" and "Hot Girl Walk" don't appear in the USPTO phrase index but are actively enforced on Etsy and regularly trigger IP complaints that result in listing removal.
Yes. All plans, including the free tier, support uploading the listings CSV exported from your Etsy Shop Manager (Listings → Export CSV) to scan multiple listings in one batch. Free users can scan up to 20 listings per month, Basic users up to 300, and Pro users get unlimited text scans. After the batch finishes, you can download a CSV compliance report listing every flagged issue, its severity (Violation or Warning), the specific term that triggered it, and the recommendation to fix it — so you can prioritize which listings to revise first. Basic and Pro users can also download the report as a PDF. A typical Etsy shop with 50 active listings processes in under two minutes — from exporting the CSV out of Shop Manager to downloading the completed compliance report with flagged issues sorted by severity.
Listing data is sent to Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash AI model for compliance analysis and is not stored on our servers — only scan counts (per user, or per IP for free anonymous use) are persisted, for rate-limiting purposes. Scan results live temporarily in your browser's localStorage so you can revisit them. Your listing titles, descriptions, tags, and images are never sold or shared with third parties, and are not used to train AI models. ListingSafe does not connect to your Etsy account; you copy and paste content (or upload a CSV you exported yourself), so we never touch your shop, password, or order data. You can confirm this in your browser's network tab during a scan — no listing content is sent anywhere except to our backend, which forwards it to Gemini and discards it after returning the result.
Each flagged issue comes with a specific recommendation on how to fix it. For trademark violations (e.g. "Disney mug" or using "Frisbee" instead of "flying disc"), you'll be told to remove the trademarked term and given a generic replacement. For policy issues (e.g. unsupported health claims, banned categories like recalled items or live plants to certain regions), you'll be told what wording to drop or what category to avoid. For Basic and Pro users, the Suggested Rewrite feature can automatically generate a compliant version of your title or description. The goal is to catch and fix issues before Etsy's automated moderation flags or removes the listing. For example, a listing titled "Stanley-style tumbler" would be flagged for the Stanley trademark, with the recommendation to rewrite it as "stainless steel tumbler, 40 oz" or "double-wall insulated tumbler" instead.
Yes. The Appeal Letter Generator (included in Basic and Pro plans) helps you write a professional response when Etsy has already removed a listing or sent you a policy violation notice. It supports three scenarios: DMCA takedown notices (from brand rights holders), trademark infringement complaints, and Etsy Creativity Standards / IP violations. You describe what happened — what listing was removed, what notice you received, what your side of the story is — and it generates a ready-to-send appeal letter that addresses the specific policy and references the correct Etsy process. The free plan does not include appeal generation. The generator asks for the specifics of your case — item type, the exact notice you received, and your explanation — so the output is tailored to your situation rather than a generic template Etsy's review team recognizes and dismisses.
For Basic and Pro users, ListingSafe cross-checks brand-like words in your listing against the official US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) trademark database in real time — confirming whether a term is an active, registered trademark, who owns it, and what goods or services it covers. This catches lesser-known trademarks the AI alone might be uncertain about (newer brand registrations, niche category marks, registered phrases) and gives you a definitive answer before you publish. Basic users get USPTO lookup on single scans only; Pro users get it on both single and batch scans. Free users do not have USPTO live lookup. For example, scanning a listing that includes "Stanley" returns an active registration in Class 21 (kitchen utensils and containers) owned by PMI Worldwide — confirming the risk before you publish rather than after Etsy removes the listing.
Don't wait for Etsy to flag your listings.
Every day without a compliance check is a risk. Start protecting your shop today — it only takes a few seconds.