We know you've been burned by software that sounded great until you were three months in and stuck with it. These are the questions we'd ask if we were in your position... plus the answers we'd actually want to know.
Sideboard is inventory software built by TCG sellers, for TCG sellers. It handles inventory management, automated pricing, buylist workflows, customer management, and multi-channel sync, integrating seamlessly into the tools and platforms you already use, without forcing you into a closed ecosystem.
Sideboard is designed for trading card game store owners and e-commerce managers who need a better way to manage inventory and buylists across their existing tools and sales channels. Whether you're a single-location store or a high-volume multi-location retailer, Sideboard is built around the real operational complexity of running your TCG business.
Sideboard currently supports Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon (Japanese sets included), Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece Card Game, Disney Lorcana, Star Wars: Unlimited, Riftbound, Gundam Card Game, Digimon Card Game, Grand Archive, Union Arena and Palworld. Beyond cards, we carry board games, plus Games Workshop and Citadel: Warhammer boxes, kits, books, paints and tools. New sets land on their own. Want a game we don't carry yet? Tell us and we'll work with you on timelines.
No. Keep the POS you've got. Sideboard works alongside it. If you sell through Shopify POS, your whole Sideboard catalog is already on it, so the counter and the website sell from the same stock.
No, and you don't need one. Sideboard connects to the store you already run on Shopify. Want a design built for card stores? The Sideboard theme for Shopify brings condition and finish swatches, playset quick-add, filters made for singles, bulk decklist search and built-in events pages.
No. No commissions, no transaction skims, no cut of your sales. You pay $150 CAD per game per month, or $1,500 CAD per game per year, and that's it. Your bill stays the same whether you sell ten cards or ten thousand.
Every plan includes our documentation, knowledge base and in-app Support. Open a conversation from the sidebar, get an instant acknowledgement, and see the full conversation in the same thread and in your inbox. Your whole team sees the same conversations, so nothing gets reported twice. Need more hands-on help? Contact us and we'll put together a custom support solution that's right for your store.
$150 CAD per game per month, or $1,500 CAD per game per year (two months free). You only pay for the games you sell. Canadian sales tax is added based on your location. See Pricing for details.
Yes. Create a free account and browse any game's catalog with live market prices. Your 30-day trial only starts when you're ready to build inventory or buylists.
Yes. Your first catalog is free for 30 days with full access. You add a card at signup, but you're not charged until the trial ends, and you can cancel anytime before then.
One subscription for everything: every catalog we carry, every catalog we launch later, Priority Support and the Events Calendar. It's $1,500 CAD a month or $15,000 CAD a year.
Cancel anytime from Settings. You keep access until the end of the period you've paid for, then your inventories and buylists go read-only. Nothing is deleted, so if you come back you pick up right where you left off.
Sideboard connects to Shopify, eBay, CardTrader and Cardmarket. Shopify runs your storefront and POS, while eBay, CardTrader and Cardmarket put your singles and sealed in front of more buyers. Every sale on any of them comes back to one inventory, with more integrations in development. If you rely on a platform not listed here, please reach out to our team and we can speak to what's on the roadmap.
Two-way sync for inventory, prices, customers and store credit. Every card, condition and finish goes to Shopify as a proper variant, and a change on either side shows up on the other in real time. New listings publish to every sales channel your store runs: Online Store, Point of Sale, the Shop app, Google & YouTube, and Facebook & Instagram. Customer management syncs too. Customers are matched across both systems by email, and store credit from buylist payouts pushes to Shopify, so customers can spend it right at checkout. Every card in the games you carry is listed in Shopify, sitting at zero until you stock it, and new sets push on their own.
Yes. Connect eBay, preview exactly what we'd list (titles, categories, prices and what each card nets after fees), then publish. After that it runs itself. New stock lists overnight, prices and quantities push as they change, and orders decrease your inventory quantities. Sealed lists too. Sideboard won't let a card sell for less than it costs you to ship it. eBay is switched on store by store, so ask us to turn it on for you.
Yes, with the Sideboard theme's Bulk Search page. Shoppers paste a decklist or wants list, every line is matched against your live stock, and they pick printings and conditions before adding the lot to their cart in one click.
Three ways:
Sideboard tracks inventory by condition — Near Mint, Lightly Played, Moderately Played, Heavily Played, Damaged — and finish (Normal, Foil, Etched, and game-specific variants). If you have unique condition or finish requirements, reach out to our team and we can speak to what's possible.
Yes. Sideboard supports CSV export. Pre-generated catalog CSVs (with all products, SKUs, and descriptions) are available for instant download — no waiting for a background export job.
Every inventory movement is logged in a full audit trail: change type, source (manual, Shopify, import, etc.), quantity before/after, and the user who made the change.
Yes. Sideboard is designed to scale from single-store operations through high-volume multi-location retailers managing hundreds of thousands of SKUs across multiple games.
Card prices come from live market data across every game we carry, backed up by game-specific sources to keep pricing accurate across your inventory. Games Workshop and Citadel use GW's own published price for your region, so a box is priced at what GW charges where you are.
Cards currently in your inventory ("hot" cards) are re-priced every 6 hours. All other cards sync every 24 hours.
Yes. Sideboard has a flexible sell pricing rule system. Rules can target specific sets, rarities, conditions, finishes, and price ranges. You can use formula-based pricing (e.g., 90% of market), fixed prices, or market matching. Rules are evaluated in order — the last matching rule wins.
Yes. Any individual inventory item can have a manual price override. Overridden items are excluded from automated rule recalculation unless you explicitly reset them.
Yes. You can configure minimum price floors within your pricing rules to prevent cards from listing below a set value.
The buylist lets you publish a public list of cards you want to buy from customers, along with buy prices. Customers submit through a public portal, you review and grade each submission, and pay out in cash or store credit — all handled directly within Sideboard.
Unlike most inventory management platforms, the entire buylist workflow, from intake to approval to payout, lives in one place without requiring separate tools or manual workarounds.
Yes. Quantity rules let you set exactly how many copies of a card you want: a fixed number, unlimited, or up-to-max based on current stock levels. Set a card's quantity to zero and it won't appear on your buylist.
Customers can choose to receive their payout as store credit. You can configure a store credit bonus percentage (e.g., 30% bonus) to incentivize store credit over cash. If Shopify is your primary storefront, your store credit balances will sync automatically to Shopify and customers can apply them at checkout.
Once a buylist order is accepted and graded, approved items are automatically added to your inventory and store credit is applied to the customer's account — no manual data entry required.
Yes. Paid Shopify and eBay orders print in one go: a 4x6 label per order that needs to ship, one pick list for an entire batch of orders, sorted by game, set and collector number, and a customer slip. Every order gets a number on its label, slip and pick lines, and two orders to the same buyer merge into one envelope.
Yes. Flag a product as presale and it gets a badge in your catalog and a tag on Shopify, and it stays off both your public buylist and CardTrader. The flag clears on its own on release day.
Yes. The Events Calendar lives right in your sidebar. Create one-off or recurring events, take sign-ups, run the roster and sell tickets, all from the same place you manage your inventory.
Not if you subscribe to a catalog. It's included free and shows up in your sidebar automatically. The $150 CAD monthly price only applies to a store that wants the calendar with no catalog subscription.
Yes. Set a price on the event, then choose whether to collect it at the door or online through your own Shopify checkout. Shopify mode also covers POS walk-ups and refunds.
Yes. Paste the external ticket link on the event. Players still sign up on your calendar, so you keep the roster and the email list, and they get a button to buy their ticket on the other site.
No. Sign-up asks for an email and, optionally, a name. That's it. Players who do have an account can cancel their own registration.
Yes. Open a night's attendees and click Export signups for a CSV with name, email, player tag and payment status, ready for pairings software, a check-in sheet or your mailing list.
Sideboard publishes each event to your Shopify store, and the Sideboard theme's events sections display them as real pages on your own domain, each with its own URL. Edit the event in Sideboard and your storefront follows, so there are no event pages to build by hand.
Yes. Sideboard maintains customer records with full store credit ledgers, transaction history, and Shopify sync.
Yes. Customer records and store credit balances can be bulk imported into Sideboard. If you're migrating from BinderPOS, it's worth noting that BinderPOS does not currently support exporting customer record lists — so depending on your situation, additional implementation support or some manual effort may be required to compile your customer data ahead of import. Our team would be happy to help you navigate this during onboarding.
Yes. Customers can view their store credit balance directly in their Shopify account, powered through the Shop app. Balances stay current as Sideboard syncs store credit to Shopify automatically.
Yes. Every store credit movement — whether earned through a buylist payout or applied at checkout — is logged against the customer's record, so there's never any guesswork when a customer has a question about their balance.
Yes. Invite teammates from Settings → Team. Everyone gets their own login and permissions.
Press ⌘K (Ctrl K on Windows) anywhere in Sideboard. Search covers every catalog you carry, your stock, customers, orders and settings, and each result opens right where it lives. Scan a box barcode and it goes straight to that sealed product.
