If you buy wholesale on Faire and run your store on Shopify or Lightspeed, there is a free integration that syncs your Faire purchases directly into your POS. Products, SKUs, images, cost prices, retail prices — all of it imports automatically when you receive a Faire order.
Most retailers using both are still entering every item by hand.
A 40-SKU Faire order takes two to three hours to manually enter into Shopify POS. Every product name, every variant, every cost and retail price. If the brand updates their product descriptions or images, that update does not carry over. If you reorder the same items next season, you are entering them again. The manual entry introduces errors — wrong prices, missing variants, SKUs that don't match what printed on the tag. It is a significant time investment that accomplishes something the integration does automatically.
Faire built native integrations with Shopify, Square, Clover, and Lightspeed specifically because retailers told them this was their biggest operational pain point. Since the Shopify integration launched, retailers on Faire have synced nearly 10 million products through it. The boutique owner quoted in Faire's own case study said: "I used to put off adding products into my POS because it was so manual, now it happens automatically. I've even shifted more of my buying onto Faire because I can see what's in stock, reorder quickly, and get products into my system without extra work."
Setting up the integration takes about 20 minutes. You connect your Faire account to your Shopify or Lightspeed account through the integration settings, map how you want products to import, and set your default margin or markup. After that, when a Faire order ships, the products appear in your POS. When you reorder, the inventory count updates.
The inventory sync piece is the part that matters beyond the time savings. When a Faire product sells in your store, the inventory level updates in the system. When you are placing your next Faire order, you can see what sold and at what rate rather than guessing from memory. The buying decision is better because the data is better.
If you have been buying on Faire and entering orders manually, you have been spending somewhere between 5 and 10 hours a month on data entry that the integration would eliminate. That is not a small number for a solo or two-person retail operation.
Michelle Onizuka is co-founder and Systems Architect at Onizuka Studio. She builds automation and AI systems for small businesses — including independent retail operations across Tampa Bay and beyond.