Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies | Note 1—Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Description of Business Etsy, Inc. (the “Company” or “Etsy”) was incorporated in Delaware in February 2006. Etsy is a global creative commerce platform. Etsy builds markets, services and economic opportunity for creative entrepreneurs. The Company generates revenue primarily from transaction and listing fees, Etsy Payments fees (formerly referred to as Direct Checkout fees), Promoted Listing fees and Shipping Label sales. Basis of Consolidation The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Etsy and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Reclassifications For the six months ended June 30, 2016 , the Company reclassified $0.5 million of excess tax benefits from exercise of stock options from cash used in financing activities to cash provided by operating activities to conform to the current year presentation upon adoption of ASU 2016-09, Stock Compensation: Improvements to Employee Share-based Payment Accounting . Unaudited Interim Financial Information The accompanying consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2017 , the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss for the three and six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2017 , the consolidated statements of cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2017 and the consolidated statement of changes in stockholders’ equity for the six months ended June 30, 2017 are unaudited. The unaudited interim financial statements have been prepared on the same basis as the annual consolidated financial statements and, in the opinion of management, reflect all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments, necessary to state fairly the Company’s financial position as of June 30, 2017 , results of operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2017 and cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2017 . The results from these interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results to be anticipated for the full annual period or any future period. The financial data and the other information disclosed in these notes to the consolidated financial statements related to these three and six month periods are unaudited. These unaudited interim financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 28, 2017 (the “Annual Report”). During the first quarter of 2017, the Company adopted the accounting principles outlined within ASU 2016-16, Income Taxes: Intra-entity Transfers of Assets other than Inventory removing the requirement to capitalize previously reported deferred tax charges and recognize the associated amortization through the tax provision . There have been no additional material changes in the Company's significant accounting policies from those that were disclosed in the Annual Report. Use of Estimates The preparation of the Company’s consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) requires management to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. The accounting estimates that require management’s most difficult and subjective judgments include revenue recognition, income taxes, website development costs and internal-use software, purchase price allocations for business combinations, valuation of goodwill and intangible assets, leases stock-based compensation and restructuring and other exit costs. The Company evaluates its estimates and judgments on an ongoing basis and revises them when necessary. Actual results may differ from the original or revised estimates. Income Taxes The Company's income tax provision for interim periods is determined using an estimate of its annual effective tax rate adjusted for discrete items, if any, for relevant interim periods. The Company updates its estimate of the annual effective tax rate each quarter and makes cumulative adjustments if its estimated annual tax rate changes. The Company's quarterly tax provision and quarterly estimate of its annual effective tax rate are subject to significant variations due to several factors, including variability in predicting its pretax and taxable income and the mix of jurisdictions to which those relate, changes of expenses or losses for which tax benefits are not recognized and changes in the laws, regulations and administrative practices of the jurisdictions in which the Company operates. Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers , which replaces existing revenue recognition guidance. The new guidance is effective for the annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2017. Among other things, the updated guidance requires companies to recognize revenue in a way that depicts the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. The Company has performed a preliminary assessment of its Markets and Seller Services revenue streams and, while the Company is still finalizing the identification of its performance obligations, it does not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on its revenue recognition on an ongoing basis. The Company is also performing an assessment over data availability and the presentation that will be necessary to meet additional disclosure requirements pursuant to this guidance. In addition, the Company continues to monitor additional changes, modifications, clarifications or interpretations related to this guidance being undertaken by the FASB, which may impact current conclusions. In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases , which requires a reporting entity to recognize right-of-use assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet for operating leases to increase transparency and comparability. The new guidance is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2018, and early adoption is permitted. Upon adoption of this standard, the Company expects to recognize, on a discounted basis, its minimum commitments under noncancelable operating leases on the consolidated balance sheets resulting in the recording of right of use assets and lease obligations. The Company is currently evaluating whether there are any additional impacts this guidance will have on its consolidated financial statements. In November 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-18, Statement of Cash Flows: Restricted Cash , which requires that a statement of cash flows explain the change during the period in the total of cash, cash equivalents and amounts generally described as restricted cash or restricted cash equivalents. The new guidance is effective for the annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2017 and early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the effect this guidance will have on its consolidated financial statements, but does not expect it to have a significant impact on its consolidated financial statements because its balance of restricted cash does not change significantly from period to period. In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-01, Business Combinations: Clarifying the Definition of a Business , to clarify the definition of a business and provide guidance for evaluating whether transactions should be accounted for as acquisitions (or disposals) of assets or businesses. The new guidance is to be applied on a prospective basis and is effective for the annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2017. As the adoption of this standard will only impact prospective acquisitions, the Company does not anticipate that this update will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements. In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-04, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other: Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment , to simplify the measurement of goodwill impairment by eliminating step two from the goodwill impairment test. The new guidance requires goodwill impairment to be measured as the amount by which a reporting unit’s carrying value exceeds its fair value, not to exceed the total amount of goodwill allocated to that reporting unit. The new guidance is effective for the annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2019 and early adoption is permitted. The Company expects to adopt this guidance in the fourth quarter of 2017 and does not anticipate the update to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements. In May 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-09, Compensation—Stock Compensation: Scope of Modification Accounting , to increase comparability and provide clarity on whether changes in the terms or conditions in a share-based payment award require a reporting entity to apply modification guidance per FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718. The new guidance is to be applied on a prospective basis, is effective for the annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2017 and early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the effect this guidance will have on its consolidated financial statements. Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09, Stock Compensation: Improvements to Employee Share-based Payment Accounting , for share-based payment transactions that require a reporting entity to recognize excess tax benefits and deficiencies as income tax expense or benefit in the income statement. The new guidance is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2016, and early adoption is permitted for financial statements as of the beginning of an interim or annual reporting period. The Company adopted this standard in the first quarter of 2017. As a result of this updated guidance, the Company recorded $2.6 million and $2.9 million of excess tax benefits to income tax expense, rather than additional paid-in capital, in the three and six months ended June 30, 2017 . On a prospective basis, the Company has updated its calculation of diluted earnings per share to exclude excess tax benefits previously included in the calculation of assumed proceeds under the treasury stock method. The Company has elected to apply the updated guidance on cash flow classification of excess tax benefits as operating activities using a retrospective approach for consistent year-over-year comparability. The Company has elected to recognize forfeitures as they occur on a modified retrospective basis and to adopt the amendments on statutory withholding requirements on a prospective basis, both of which have no material impact to the consolidated financial statements. In October 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-16, Income Taxes: Intra-entity Transfers of Assets other than Inventory , which eliminated the exception that previously existed for the income tax consequences of intra-entity asset transfers other than inventory. The new guidance is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2017. Early adoption is permitted in annual reporting periods for which interim or annual financial statements have not been issued. The Company has adopted this standard in the first quarter of 2017. The amendments in this update have been applied on a modified retrospective basis through a cumulative effect adjustment recorded to retained earnings as of January 1, 2017 of $51.4 million , which represents the unamortized amount of the deferred tax charge asset on the balance sheet at December 31, 2016. Consequently, the adoption of this standard eliminates the recognition in the tax provision of $17.1 million in each year through 2019, the year through which the deferred tax charge was previously amortizable. Additionally, a deferred tax asset of $21.7 million was recognized which previously qualified for an exception that has been eliminated. A full valuation allowance for that deferred tax asset was also recognized resulting in no impact to the consolidated financial statements. |