Hi everyone. I built Preburn, a free browser tool for turning personalized Etsy orders into a CSV for LightBurn’s Variable Text.
Drop in the Etsy Order Items export and it produces:
- One row per piece: an order for three items becomes three rows.
- Consistent columns: engraving text starts at
%0, additional lines use%1,%2, etc. The font choice goes in%10. The download has no header row. - A list to review before engraving: blank personalization, possible instructions mixed into the engraving text, emoji, and letters missing from an optional font file. Each flagged order includes a draft message you can copy to the buyer.
For example, an order for two tags with the text “Milo” becomes two rows containing “Milo”. If an order contains different names for multiple pieces, you review it and choose whether to split the names between pieces.
You still use your own LightBurn template with Variable Text in Merge/CSV mode. Preburn prepares the table; it doesn’t generate a LightBurn project or place names into a jig.
The order cleaner is free and will stay free. No account is needed, and orders and font files are processed locally in your browser, without being uploaded. There is a sample file on the page, so you can try it without using customer data.
Being upfront about future plans: I may build a separate paid jig-file tool later. Nothing in this CSV cleaner requires a purchase.
I’d appreciate hearing whether it reads your export correctly and whether the review list catches useful things or creates extra work. Please don’t post customer data here; you can describe the problem or share an anonymized example. There is also a feedback form on the page.