To sell on Faire, you apply as a brand, get approved, then build your shop with wholesale prices, order minimums and strong photos. Retailers find your products and place orders, you ship them, and Faire pays you. You can also bring your own retailers through your Faire Direct link. The steps below cover how to sell on Faire in that order: setup, pricing, getting found and reorders.
What Faire actually is (and who it is for)
Faire is a wholesale marketplace. Brands list their products, retailers browse and place wholesale orders, and Faire handles the transaction, the net-60 terms it extends to buyers, and the risk of a first order. For the retailer, it feels like a curated catalog of small brands. For you, it is a channel where buyers come pre-qualified and ready to purchase.
The tradeoff: Faire takes a commission on orders it sources (typically 15 to 25 percent on new customers, less on ones you brought), and you do not own the buyer relationship the way you would selling direct. That is the core decision we unpack in selling on Faire vs direct wholesale. Faire is not a replacement for direct outreach — it is a complement, and a genuinely good place to land your first few boutique accounts.
Step 1 — Set up your shop the right way
Faire approval is not automatic, and a thin listing gets ignored. Before you apply:
- Nail your photography. Buyers judge fast. Clean, well-lit product shots and at least one lifestyle image do more than any description.
- Write like a buyer reads. Lead with what makes the product sell through — the hook a shopper responds to, the price point, the margin. Buyers care about sell-through, not adjectives.
- Complete every field. Materials, dimensions, case packs, ship times. Gaps make you look unready.
Treat your shop like a listing that has to convert a professional, not a consumer. The buyer is deciding whether your product earns shelf space.
Step 2 — Price for the platform without losing your margin
Faire is a wholesale channel, so your Faire price is a wholesale price. Start from your true landed cost and build up, leaving the retailer room to hit their standard markup (usually a 2x, or keystone). Then remember Faire takes a commission on top of that.
The mistake brands make is pricing off their Amazon number instead of their cost. Your wholesale price should protect margin at volume even after the platform cut. If the math does not work, either your cost is too high or your retail price is too low — do not solve it by underpricing yourself into a loss. Our wholesale line sheet guide walks through building a price ladder that holds up across channels.
Step 3 — Get found on Faire
Listing is not the same as getting discovered. A few levers that move visibility:
- Categories and tags. Fill them out completely and accurately. This is how buyers filter to you.
- First-order incentives. Faire lets you offer new-buyer discounts and free shipping. These meaningfully raise conversion on a buyer who has never heard of you.
- Bring your own buyers. Faire does not charge its commission on orders from retailers you bring through your Faire Direct link. Send your existing and prospective wholesale contacts that link to place orders — you keep the margin and get a warmer start.
- Keep your shop active. New products, seasonal drops, and updated photos signal an alive brand, which the platform tends to surface.
That third point matters more than it looks. Faire works best when you feed it buyers, not when you sit and wait for it to deliver them.
Step 4 — Turn a first order into a reorder
A first order on Faire is a sample, not a win. The win is the reorder, because that is where the account becomes real revenue. After a buyer orders:
- Ship fast and clean. Fulfillment speed and packaging quality are the whole first impression.
- Follow up outside the platform where allowed. A short, human note thanking them and offering a reorder or a new item keeps you top of mind.
- Watch what sells through. If a buyer reorders one SKU and never touches another, lean into the winner.
The brands that grow on Faire treat every first order as the start of a relationship, not a transaction.
Frequently asked questions
How does Faire work for sellers?
A brand applies, and once it is approved it lists products with wholesale and retail prices, order minimums and ship times. Retailers browse, place orders, and the brand packs and ships them. Faire collects from the retailer, gives the retailer time to pay, and pays the brand, keeping a commission on orders from retailers it introduced. Retailers the brand invites through its own Faire Direct link order from the same shop without that commission.
Do I need a business license to sell on Faire?
Faire asks brands to apply and approves established brands that sell wholesale, so what it looks at is your product line, your shop and whether you are ready to supply stores. Whether you need a business license, a resale certificate or a sales tax registration depends on where you operate and what you sell, not on Faire. Check the rules for your state or country before you take wholesale orders on any channel.
How much does Faire charge to sell?
Faire charges a commission on orders instead of a fee to list. On orders it sources, that commission is typically 15 to 25 percent on new customers, the range quoted earlier in this guide. A retailer's first order costs you the most, reorders cost less, and orders from retailers who come through your own Faire Direct link carry no Faire commission. Rates change, so confirm the current ones with Faire before you set prices.
Where Faire fits in your bigger channel mix
Faire is one channel, not a strategy. It is excellent for landing boutique and gift-shop accounts you would struggle to find on your own. But the highest-margin wholesale accounts — distributors, regional chains, corporate bulk buyers — you reach directly, not through a marketplace. Owning that direct relationship is what turns wholesale into your biggest channel over time.
Finding those direct buyers and reaching the person who signs the PO is the tedious part. That is exactly what WholesalePilot automates: paste a product link and it finds matching B2B buyers, write the outreach in your voice, send it, and book the calls.
Faire hands you buyers who are already shopping. Direct outreach hands you buyers nobody else is talking to. Run both, and you are not depending on any single channel to keep your brand alive.
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