Thanks for post that. Wonderful if it happens.
Hope that will be available to all the listings, so our small packages won’t have to be Priority mail, and buyers don’t have to pay shipping fee to make up for that. Will check on all my listings tomorrow and adjusting things accordingly.
They’ve gotten back to me very quickly when I asked questions. So that’s a good thing!
I changed one of my listing to First class and changed from buyer paying $5 to Free shipping, and the change was instant, the public side reflect the change right away. 
Just published my folded book listing (was in draft) with 3 day PM shipping, the listing is live, but not included in the search result. Have a feeling the search function is not quite quickly updated as listing changes.
BTW, the items I listed yesterday are showing up in search.
Slowly changing my listings to reflect first class and free shipping. Changed about 8 of them and now it will no longer let me select anything saying I need to provide dimensions and weights (which are provided), probably just buggy since it’s the first day and everyone is probably trying to do it.
For the marketplace side: So at first I am thrilled to see a MakerPlace tab at the top of Michaels website…something Handmade has been asking Amazon for since the beginning of time.
Was able to finish changing all my listings to free shipping. Noticed that others who had free shipping had a free shipping badge but mine didn’t. About an hour later or so the free shipping badge appeared.
Listed a new item this morning around 8 am my time and checked right away, 10, and 12 and it had yet to appear in search results. By almost 2 I checked again and it is showing up in search results. So there is some delay.
Will make it a bit of a pain to figure out the best seo practices having to wait for results. I will try to list some more items later and try to make notes.
Store page only seems to show 12 latest items and you have to manually click a link to see more items. I was under the impression it would just load more if you scrolled down. There are tags that appear on the left that has been propagated but don’t seem clickable lol. Seems kind of a disorganized mess so far and I don’t think I want to list all of my 300+ patterns till there is more sorting/arranging
No sales yet.
May I ask for the link or an address to contact them? Maybe if I explain that I ship with USPS and have a return address in the US (my sister’s)… they’ll accept me? All I have to do is ask…
And now Shipping method cannot be updated. Trying to change shipping from priority to first class. Sheesh! Lots of bugs.
Working now but I’m dreading price and quantity edits on 4-500 listings without quicker editing methods.
I will say, the whole “processing the order” is very clunky and I hate not being able to purchase shipping from the venue.
I assume we have to purchase the shipping label somewhere else to ship out the order. But do we have to supply Michaels with a tracking number for the package, like on Amazon, in order to get paid?
Yes. I shipped USPS GA purchased from ship station. You have to enter method and tracking number.
6 hours later it is showing up on “Orders” but nada on the dashboard.
Payment method showed Paypal so that could be an extra “dispute” avenue with buyers. I have a feeling the learning curve on this new venture could be big.
Good to know that. I never checked “Orders”, just figured it’ll show on the dashboard.
OK, just looked at my “Orders”, nothing there either. 
For those of you that use ShipStation, they have a API that connects Michaels. We have only done 3 test listings, still trying to automate it with spreadsheets.
Not as in upload the spreadsheet, but build a spreadsheet that all the data is in. That way we can copy and paste.
We did find that you can duplicate a listing and that helps a bit.
I only use the purchase option included with Paypal. I see no need to go with the subscription service for Michael’s at this point and since I will never use Paypal for Amazon or Etsy. I’ve had too many A-Zs that have been covered with Amazon buy shipping.
I understand why that makes sense for you.
The best feature of shipstation is that it acts as a funnel for all our websites and channels. We too ship with Amazon shipping but every order is imported into ShipStation. It creates a create, pick, pack, ship and record system for us.
This then connects to the accounting system.
And congratulations on having the first sale!
Well, PirateShip didn’t workout for me, couldn’t save a credit card there. So I went to USPS, used the same CC with their “Clip & Save” and bought a Ground Advantage label there, cost the same as Amazon commercial rate.
After I entered tracking # for the order, I received an email fr Michaels, telling me “Your order is on its way …”. Shouldn’t the buyer receive this email? Kind of weird. Hope Michaels at least sent it to both the seller and the buyer, not just the seller.
We switched from Stamps to PirateShip a while ago. Best thing we ever did. We have several credit cards saved, not sure what was going on with you not being able to save them.
Go to settings ==> payment methods.
Then add your cards here:
Hope this helps!
-Ana
I’m getting this
So, how do I do that? I think it might be under store settings, but most of my links are dead. Nothing happens when I click. I tried Edit Store Template, but nothing happens there, either.
Have you set up you carrier default and return policy here https://www.michaels.com/makerplace/sellertools/my-storefront-shipping
