The problem
Everyone answers what a card is worth.
A dozen free apps already do that, and they do it well. Nobody answers the questions that actually cost you money.
- 01What did I pay for this?
- 02What do I clear if I sell it today?
- 03What do I owe the guy whose cards I'm holding?
- 04What do I hand my accountant in April?
- 05How much of my cash is asleep in dead stock?
- 06What is this shoebox worth, and what do I offer for it?
The one number nobody shows you
Make the offer.
Same box. Move your percentage and watch what you actually clear. This is the arithmetic the Buyout Desk does at the table, in five minutes, with a receipt at the end.
- CharizardTrading Card Game Classic · 003/034 $213.67
- MewEX Legend Maker · 10/92 $196.75
- PikachuTrading Card Game Classic · 008/034 $51.05
- Greninja StarSWSH Promo · SWSH144 $22.04
- Bulk, six tiers220 cards, priced by your own rates $15.33
Move the dial and the bottom two rows open up. The bulk is bought, not resold here, so it stays out of the profit line. Every figure is worked in whole cents, the way the product does it.
The receipts
Real figures, from the real tools.
Not mockups of a product that does not exist yet. These tools are running today, and these are their actual figures, redrawn here so they stay sharp at any size.
| Line | Part I, income | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gross receipts or sales what buyers paid, shipping included, before any fees | $41,208.00 |
| 4 | Cost of goods soldfrom Part III | $22,904.00 |
| 10 | Commissions and fees platform fees and payment processing | $5,073.00 |
| 20b | Rent, other business property show and table fees | $1,475.00 |
| 9 | Car and truck expenses standard mileage rate by trip date | $1,062.00 |
| 31 | Net profit or loss | $9,411.00 |
Tool 05
Line 1 is gross, and that is the whole trap.
It counts what buyers paid you, shipping included, before a fee comes out. Net the fees into it and your return stops matching your 1099-K. That mismatch is what generates the letter. Fees come out further down, on line 10, where they belong.
Every figure on the sheet opens up and shows the transactions inside it.
| Bought | Cost | At market |
|---|---|---|
| In the last month112 lines | $4,180.00 | $7,402.00 |
| Three to six months84 lines | $3,260.00 | $4,015.00 |
| Asleep over a year39 lines | $2,905.00 | $2,240.00 |
57 lines on the shelf have no recorded cost. They are in the counts but not in the capital figure. An unknown cost is not a zero cost, and treating it as one would make every margin on this page look better than it is.
Tool 08
Software that flatters you is worse than no software.
A card with no recorded cost gets counted and named, never averaged in and never treated as free. A zero would flatter every margin on the page, which is exactly the direction a dealer must not be misled in.
The total on the shelf is a number you already know. The cost of what has not moved in a year is the one that changes what you buy next.
| The maths | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hits at market4 lines | $483.51 |
| Offer on the hits45% of market | $217.58 |
| Offer on bulk220 cards, six tiers | $15.33 |
| Total offer$1.04 a card | $232.91 |
Commits as one transaction. Show wifi cannot leave you holding half a buyout, and it undoes cleanly until something from it sells.
Tool 03
224 cards, eleven lines, one number.
Somebody sets a box on your table. Scan the hits, bucket the bulk at your own rates, adjust the total, hand them a receipt. It commits in one transaction, so show wifi cannot leave you holding half a buyout, and it undoes cleanly until something from it sells.
Drawn from a real session. Send me a screenshot of your own and it goes in here instead.
The tools
Fourteen tools, one ledger.
Every tool reads from and writes to the same record. What you paid, when, from whom, what it is worth now, what it would net. Numbered in the order they get built.
The Ledger
Every item you own with what it cost and what it is worth. Import your existing spreadsheet. It maps your columns, flags anything uncertain for review, and lets you undo a whole import for thirty days.
Landed Cost & Net Proceeds
Three numbers on every price: market, what it truly cost you delivered, and what you would clear after fees, shipping and supplies. Not a screen. The spine.
Buyout Desk
only hereSomebody sets a shoebox on your table. Scan the hits, bucket the bulk, apply your own margin, hand them a receipt. Five minutes, and every line lands in your books.
Sealed & Bulk
Booster boxes, ETBs and a 3,000 count bulk lot tracked as real inventory in their own right, not forced into a single card shape.
Tax Ledger
A year end summary that maps to your return, reconciles your 1099-K against what actually hit your bank, and exports clean for your accountant.
Evidence Locker
only herePhotograph front, back, corners, flaws and the packed item before you ship, timestamped and hashed. When a buyer claims a swap, one tap builds the packet. Nothing in it can be edited or deleted, including by you.
Consignment Ledger
Whose card is whose, the split, what is owed, and a statement you can hand over. Consigned goods stay out of your inventory and out of your cost of goods.
Capital & Channel P&L
Days on hand, money asleep in dead stock, sell-through by channel, and what you really made at each show after table fee and mileage.
Insurance Schedule
only hereOne button, a dated inventory an adjuster accepts. Your carrier expects you to keep one and gives you nothing to build it with.
Grading Triage
Which raw cards clear break-even on grading fees today, with your own hit rate and the answer shown as a range across outcomes rather than one hopeful number.
Price Labels
Printable labels and case cards for singles and sealed, priced off the same record the rest of the books use, so what is on the sleeve and what is in the ledger cannot disagree.
Independent Shop Index
only hereEvery restock tracker watches Target and Walmart. This one indexes the thousand plus small online shops nobody covers, priced by what it costs delivered.
Returns & Refunds
A return puts the card back in stock at the basis it left with, and takes the sale, the fees and the refund back out of the month it belongs to. The books end up where they would have been if the sale had never happened.
Card scanner
Point the camera and get the set, number and variant, then straight into inventory, a buyout, or a sale. The catalogue lives on the phone, so it works in a hall with no signal.
Trade Desk
only hereCards for cards. Price both sides, see who is up, settle the difference in cash if you want to. Recording it writes both halves at once: their cards in with a cost basis, yours out against theirs.
Scan to pay
Show the buyer a QR and they pay straight into your own Venmo, Cash App or PayPal. The sale, the payment method and a numbered receipt all land in your books at once. We never touch your money.
Where it stands
Built in the open.
No launch date being promised. Here is the honest state of it.
Pricing
Priced for a table, not an enterprise.
Export everything you put in, on every plan, free, forever. Leaving should be easy. That is how you know staying is a choice.
- Up to 100 items
- Spreadsheet import and export
- Daily market values
- Basic profit and loss
- Unlimited items
- Every tool
- Tax and insurance exports
- Consignment and Evidence Locker
- Buyout Desk and Trade Desk
- Everything in Dealer
- Multiple users
- Multiple locations
- Priority support
The real questions
What dealers actually ask.
I already have a spreadsheet.
Is this another price checker?
What happens to my data if I quit?
Do the fees stay right?
A buyer said I sent the wrong card. What good is a photo?
My collection is insured.
Do I have to worry about a 1099-K?
Founding dealer survey
Tell us what breaks, and take 10% off.
Roughly ten minutes. It asks how you track cost today, what your last unrecoverable loss was, and which of the tools you would actually use. Finish it and you get a code for 10% off your first year, plus first access when the next tool ships.
Your answers go straight to the person building this. No mailing list.