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Automation and integrations

Automation and integrations for farms and food makers

Your store, register, accounting, email tool and shipping software each know part of the story. We connect them so orders, inventory, customers and payouts move on their own.

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Built for farmers and makers. Set up for you, on the tools you already use.

Automation: perishable order
  1. Trigger: order placedStore, Faire or the market
  2. If perishableAdd the cold pack fee41 this week
  3. If ordered Thursday to SundayHold and ship Monday12 this week
  4. Create the labelIn your shipping softwareOn
  5. Record the saleIn your books, by channelOn
Yours is built around the tools you run.

Sync

Five tools that act like one system

A sale anywhere updates stock everywhere, creates the label and lands in the books, with no retyping.

Order #1042
StepToolStatus
Order placed Store Done
Stock reduced Inventory, all channels Done
Label created Shipping software Done
Sale recorded Accounting Done
Review request Email, in 7 days Scheduled

Custom

When the rule you want does not exist

If no app offers the connection, we build it. We built our own for shipping from makers on platforms Shopify Collective does not reach.

Custom connectors
Live2
Maker shipping ratesPasses each maker's rate to checkoutLive
Faire to accountingSplits payout, fees and salesLive
Testing1
Market count sheetCounts out and back in by marketOn a copy of your data

Works with what you already run

Already on one of these? We work with what you have before suggesting a switch.

  • Zapier
  • Make
  • Shopify Flow
  • n8n
  • Airtable automations
  • Google Apps Script
  • Square
  • QuickBooks
  • ShipStation
  • Klaviyo

What is included

  • Inventory synced between your store, Madeline's, Faire, Square and the market

  • Orders from any channel into shipping software and accounting with no retyping

  • Rules: add a cold pack fee, hold perishables Thursday to Sunday, tag wholesale orders, send the restaurant its weekly statement

  • Custom connectors when no off-the-shelf integration exists (we built our own for non-Shopify vendor shipping)

See what this looks like for your business

Tell us what you make. We send back a short plan and a price.

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How it works

  1. Tell us what you make

    What you make and what you use now. A spreadsheet and a Square account is a fine answer.

  2. Get a short plan

    Keep this, replace that, connect these, and the cost.

  3. We set it up

    Setup and migration done for you. You approve before anything goes live.

  4. Run it or hand it off

    Take it from there yourself or keep us on for the upkeep.

A good fit if

  • You copy orders from one screen to another
  • You oversell because channels do not talk
  • A rule you want does not exist in any app

Questions

Zapier or Make for a small business?

Zapier is simpler and connects more apps. Make costs less at volume and handles more complex steps. On Shopify, Flow is free and covers many store rules. We use whichever keeps your monthly cost lowest.

Can you connect Square to QuickBooks?

Yes. Sales, fees, tips and deposits are mapped to the right accounts so the bank deposit matches the books.

What if no integration exists for my tools?

We build a custom connector, test it on a copy of your data and hand it over with a short written guide.

Get a plan and a price

Tell us what you make and what you use today. A spreadsheet and a Square account is a fine answer. We reply by email with what we would keep, what we would change and what it costs.

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