Faire offers free POS integrations with Shopify, Square, Clover, and Lightspeed Retail (X-Series). The integration adds products you buy on Faire into your POS with their details, and — for Shopify, Square, and Clover — can automatically add ordered quantities to your inventory counts when the Faire order is delivered. Products sync at purchase; inventory syncs at delivery; the integration refreshes every 30 minutes.
That's genuinely useful, and if you buy on Faire you should turn it on. This guide covers how to set it up well, exactly what syncs per POS, the limits Faire documents, and the part of inventory management the integration was never meant to do.
Quick answer
- What it does: creates POS products from Faire purchases (images, names, prices, SKUs, and more, varying by POS) and adds delivered Faire quantities to inventory counts on Shopify, Square, and Clover.
- What it doesn't do: subtract anything, count anything, reorder anything, or know about any supplier that isn't Faire. It records Faire arrivals; it doesn't run your purchasing.
- Key limits: one POS per Faire account; automated count updates only for linked products and only at delivery; on multi-location Shopify and Square, automatic count updates go to a single selected location; no API access for retailers.
What syncs, per POS
Fields differ by system. From Faire's own documentation:
| POS | Product fields synced | Automated inventory counts |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify | Images, title, description, vendor, status, type, collections, tags, cost, retail price, taxability, SKU, barcode, shipping weight |