Brands search this when Faire waives marketplace commission for a short window and retailers expect a deeper opening discount. Listing everyday at 15% + the new-customer fee is the baseline. Open House is not Faire Direct — you still did not bring the retailer — and it is not a reorder. The main calculator’s first-order table cannot show whether the waived commission pays for the extra markdown.
On the default $20 × 10 first order, everyday keeps $75.90 after 15% + $10. Open House at 0% commission and a 20% retailer discount keeps $66.66 (−$9.24). The waived commission still funds about 15.3% off before leftover matches everyday. Keep your everyday discount during the window and leftover is $105.90 (+$30.00) — the leak is the deeper discount, not the event. Two extra new retailers flip the 20% path to $199.98 vs $75.90 (+$124.08). Two Open House first orders (1 extra) match one everyday order.
| Window | Discount | First-order leftover | vs everyday | Window leftover |
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First-order leftover is one new retailer. Window leftover multiplies the Open House rows by 1 + extra new retailers — a count you type, not a forecast that the event will produce them. Complementary to Faire Direct (you brought the account), to a keep-it credit vs taking the return after the order lands, and to the brand calculator lifetime table (reorders after the opening fee). Paste the Open House commission and discount from the event terms on your account. This page does not publish Faire’s live Open House schedule.
The calculator is arithmetic, not advice. It does not recommend listing during Open House, waiting, or deepening a discount.
On the calculator defaults — a $20 wholesale unit × 10, $8 cost, $15 shipping both ways, 15% commission, $10 new-customer fee, 60-day processing — an everyday first order keeps $75.90. Open House at 0% commission and a 20% retailer discount keeps $66.66 (−$9.24). The waived commission still funds about 15.3% off before leftover matches everyday. Open House at your everyday 0% discount keeps $105.90 (+$30.00). Two extra new retailers flip the 20% path to $199.98 vs $75.90 (+$124.08). Two Open House first orders (1 extra) match one everyday order.
No. Faire Direct is 0% commission when you bring the retailer with your link. Open House is a seasonal window when Faire typically waives marketplace commission on retailers who still found you on Faire. The new-customer fee can still apply. This page holds Direct and off-Faire invoices off the table so the comparison stays an everyday-versus-event first-order question.
When you already fund an everyday opening discount, or when the window actually produces extra new first orders. On these defaults a 20% event discount loses $9.24 per order against an everyday 0% list, but two extra new retailers flip the pile by $124.08. If you already list at 15% off everyday, the 20% Open House path wins per order. Paste the Open House commission and discount from the event terms on your account — this page does not publish Faire's live Open House schedule.