Wholesale guide

How to stop overselling on Faire

Faire orders often arrive in bulk, days before they ship — while the same units keep selling on Shopify and other channels. When each channel keeps its own count, you sell stock you no longer have, then cancel wholesale orders and hurt your Faire standing.

Why Faire overselling happens

• Faire stock is updated by hand or on a slow sync, so it lags behind retail sales.
• Open wholesale orders aren't reserved, so retail buyers take the same units.
• Retailers can cancel early orders, so demand looks bigger or smaller than it really is.
• Reorders are guessed from spreadsheets instead of real open orders.

How Pear Inventory prevents it

• One stock number: Faire, Shopify, marketplaces, and wholesale all draw from the same count.
• Oldest order first: received stock is reserved to the oldest waiting order, so wholesale orders aren't skipped.
• Cancellation-aware reorders: new Faire orders join reorder suggestions after the retailer cancellation window, so you don't buy for orders that disappear.
• Scan-verified picking: every unit is scanned before it ships, so counts stay true.

Built in a real wholesale warehouse

Pear runs a working apparel warehouse every day across Faire, Shopify, and department-store marketplaces — from one back room to a full warehouse floor. Flat $49/month with unlimited SKUs and users.

Also see: Integrations · Compare · Stocky alternative