You can make your sold listings page inaccessible to customers by following these two steps. Go to Shop Manager > Settings > Options. Scroll down to the Sold Listings area at the bottom of this page. Under “Would you want visitors to be able to view these?,” choose the option for “No, hide them.”
When you’re on vacation, Etsy turns your store into a “closed” mode. You won’t be able to accept orders while in Vacation mode because the purchase button is disabled. During this period, your shop listings are also hidden from search.
Some Etsy store owners recognized that if they leave their business closed for more than 30 days, it is as if they are starting from scratch. Consider how difficult those initial four to six months were in establishing your Etsy shop.
Etsy has maintained that vacation mode has no impact on your shop or its ranking, but in the time you are on Etsy vacation mode, your store’s relevance and quality score will be lost.
If you don’t update the expiration date, this most often happens when it expires and you haven’t refreshed it. You will not get a deposit if it isn’t chargeable. In any case, you won’t be able to terminate the account until the payment account shows a zero balance.
