Faire Integration
Wholesale runs on thinner margins than retail, and Faire takes its commission off the top of an already-discounted price. Stocksmith imports your Faire orders, deducts the materials through your bills of materials, and costs every order from what you actually paid — so you know whether the wholesale line clears its costs.
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| Product | Open orders | Can build |
|---|---|---|
| Lavender Body Butter 200ml | 96 | 120 |
| Vitamin C Serum 30ml | 140 | 38 |
| Charcoal Face Bar | 60 | 300 |
Authorise Stocksmith from your Faire brand account once. From then on your products and orders come across on their own, and your stock counts go back the other way.
Your Faire catalogue and wholesale orders pull into Stocksmith automatically — daily on Indie, hourly on Business and Growth. No CSV exports, no copying figures off a dashboard at the end of the month.
A wholesale order for 200 units doesn't just move a SKU count. Stocksmith traces down through your bill of materials and takes every component and raw material with it.
When your on-hand figure changes — a production run finishes, a retail order ships — Stocksmith writes the new quantity back to the matching Faire variant, so retailers aren't ordering stock you don't have.
Order #1043 · 3 items
2 min ago
Wholesale · 24 units
18 min ago
Order 114-220 · 1 item
1 hr ago
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On a retail order you have room to be roughly right. Wholesale removes that room. You're already selling at around half your retail price, and Faire's 15% marketplace commission comes off what's left. If your cost per unit is a guess that's 20% low, retail absorbs it and wholesale doesn't.
The businesses this catches out are rarely careless. They costed their products properly once, then material prices moved, a supplier changed their pack size, a recipe got tweaked, and nobody went back and rebuilt the numbers. The wholesale price list stayed where it was. Six months later the Faire line is the busiest part of the business and the thinnest part of the margin, and it takes a full recosting exercise to work out why.
Stocksmith is built around bills of materials, so the cost side updates itself. Every material carries what you actually paid, every product carries its recipe, and every Faire order that imports is costed from those figures on a weighted average — not from a number you typed in last year. That is the figure to set your wholesale price against, and it's the one most tools can't give you.
See your true cost per unit before you set a wholesale price list, and watch what happens to it when a material price moves. Our Faire fee calculator works out the commission side.
Wholesale orders arrive in blocks, not a trickle. Reorder points fire on your real consumption rate so a 300-unit order doesn't find you three kilos short of a key material.
Boutique buyers ask where a batch went. Lot tracking and traceability are on the Indie plan and above, tracing a material lot forward to every wholesale order that carried it.
Running Faire on a spreadsheet
With Stocksmith + Faire
Wholesale and retail, one stock pool
Adding wholesale is usually the point where single-channel tracking stops working. Retail sells in ones and twos and gives you time to react. A Faire order for 400 units commits a large slice of your material stock in a single afternoon — and your Shopify store has no idea it happened.
Stocksmith puts both on the same inventory. A Faire order and a DTC order draw down the same materials pool, so you see the collision while you can still do something about it rather than when a listing runs dry. There's more on the mechanics in our guide to multi-channel inventory management.
It also changes what production planning looks like. Once committed wholesale orders and current material levels sit in the same system, "what do we need to make this week" stops being a question you answer from memory. Production scheduling works it out from what's actually on order.
| Product | Open orders | Can build |
|---|---|---|
| Lavender Body Butter 200ml | 96 | 120 |
| Vitamin C Serum 30ml | 140 | 38 |
| Charcoal Face Bar | 60 | 300 |
Connecting Faire is included on every paid plan — unlike Amazon, it isn't held back for the larger tiers. What changes as you move up is the cadence. On Indie ($83/month billed annually, $99/month billed monthly) orders import daily and stock pushes back on your review. On Business ($166/month annual, $199/month monthly) and Growth, imports run hourly and stock sync is automatic.
See the full plan comparison →Faire tracks the finished units you list and sell and the commission it takes on them. It has no view of what those units cost you to make. Stocksmith tracks the production side: raw materials, components, sub-assemblies and the recipe that turns them into a sellable product. When a Faire order imports, Stocksmith decrements every material it consumed and attaches a real cost — so the margin on a wholesale order is a number you can read rather than one you estimate at the end of the quarter.
Yes. Faire is one of the channels that supports stock push-back, alongside Shopify, WooCommerce, Etsy and Square. Stocksmith writes the on-hand quantity to the matching Faire product variant when your figure changes. It's quantity only — Stocksmith does not update your Faire prices, images or product descriptions, so your listings stay exactly as you wrote them.
It depends on your plan, and it's worth knowing before you pick one. On the Indie plan orders import daily; on Business and Growth they import hourly. Stock sync follows the same shape — manual review on Indie, automatic on Business and Growth. For most wholesale businesses a daily import is plenty, because Faire orders don't arrive at retail speed. It matters more if you're also running a fast DTC channel off the same stock.
You authorise Stocksmith from your Faire brand account and the two are linked — no API keys to generate and no developer needed. Stocksmith then pulls your Faire products across so you can match them to the products you already track, and starts importing orders from that point. Faire connects on any paid plan.
Stocksmith holds a bill of materials for each product — every material, its quantity, and what you actually paid for it. A Faire order is costed from those figures using a weighted-average material cost, so it reflects your real purchase history rather than a fixed estimate. That's the number to compare against your wholesale price before Faire's 15% commission, and it feeds your COGS reporting without any reconstruction from payout reports.
Yes, and it's the main reason wholesale sellers use it. Faire connects alongside Shopify, WooCommerce, Etsy, Square, Amazon, Wix and Squarespace, and all of them draw down the same inventory pool. That matters most when a single large wholesale order commits materials your retail channel was quietly relying on — you see the conflict while there's still time to schedule a production run, instead of finding out when a listing runs dry.
Stocksmith's job is the cost side of the equation — what the unit cost you to produce. Faire's charges sit on the revenue side: 15% commission on orders Faire brings you, 0% on Faire Direct orders you bring yourself, and a one-time $10 new-customer fee on a retailer's first order, plus payment processing. You can record those as expenses against the order. If you want to model the fee side before setting a price list, our Faire fee calculator does that arithmetic, and how much Faire charges breaks the structure down in full.
Yes. You record a manufacture — a batch of 300 units, say — and Stocksmith consumes the materials from the bill of materials and adds the finished goods to stock in one step. Because your imported Faire orders and your current material levels sit in the same system, the planning view can tell you what needs making and whether you have the materials to make it, which is the question wholesale keeps asking and a spreadsheet keeps answering late.
Yes, on the Indie plan and above. Lot tracking records which material lots went into which production batch, and traceability follows those batches forward to the orders that shipped them. For a wholesale business that matters more than for a retail one: a boutique buyer who needs to pull a batch is asking about hundreds of units across several retailers, not one customer's order.
Not directly — Stocksmith sits between them. Faire orders import into Stocksmith, which costs them against your real material prices, and the resulting COGS and inventory-valuation journals push across to QuickBooks Online. QuickBooks receives accounting-ready figures instead of raw order data it has no way to cost. The QuickBooks sync is one-way and works with QuickBooks Online Plus and Advanced on USD accounts.
Getting accepted, pricing for wholesale, and running two channels at once.
Commission, the new-customer fee and processing, and what they do to a margin.
How the marketplace works, and who it suits.
Seven other wholesale marketplaces, and how their fee structures compare.
Commission model against flat subscription — which suits which business.
Work out your net payout on a wholesale order after every Faire charge.
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