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The Best Way to Merge WooCommerce and Faire Data for Multi-Store Reporting
If you're doing multi-store reporting by hand right now, here's the fastest path from "two exports" to "one usable sheet," and why the manual version keeps breaking.
Step by step
- Decide your target columns once. Most people settle on Date, Channel, Order ID, and Total — set that up in CSV Experts and you won't redo it.
- Import the WooCommerce file first. The first time you see this file shape, you map each of its columns to your target list.
- Import the Faire file the same way. Its columns get mapped once too — after that, every future file with this shape merges with no extra clicks.
- Check the merged totals. Dates and numbers are normalized automatically, so a European "24,00" and a US "24.00" both land as the same value.
- Export. CSV or Excel, ready for multi-store reporting.
What actually goes wrong if you do this by hand
WooCommerce gives you an Order Date in whatever format your WordPress site's locale is set to, while Faire gives you an order date shown alongside a separate ship date for wholesale orders — line those up manually across a few hundred rows and it's easy to miscount a week. On top of that, WooCommerce's export column layout depends on which export plugin generated the CSV, so two WooCommerce stores can produce different headers entirely, and Faire's quantities are per case/pack rather than per unit, which throws off totals if merged as if it were a retail export. Individually those are minor quirks; combined into one spreadsheet by hand, they're where most reconciliation errors for multi-store reporting actually come from.
Why it matters for multi-store reporting
Reporting on multiple storefronts only works cleanly once every store's export uses the same column layout.
Just want the quick column-difference reference instead? See the short version.