Listing bulk on Cardmarket

Four ways to get cards in

TCG PowerTools does not have one route, it has four. Which is fastest depends on the stack in front of you, not on the tool.

• Single card: for a handful of unsorted cards. Search, set the attributes, create.
• By expansion: for a sorted stack from one set. You walk the set list, hotkeys set condition and language, "B" skips a card you do not have, "V" goes back, "C" adds the same card again with different attributes.
• Bulk: for a whole set at once. You enter the set name and a quantity per rarity, "Add articles" creates the rows, and prices come from your template.
• Import a file: for anything captured somewhere else first. This is the route CardEntry builds the file for.

Which route suits which stack

We sell the fourth route, so here is when the others beat it. If a sorted stack from a single set is in front of you, "by expansion" with its hotkeys is hard to beat, and you need neither us nor a camera for it. If you want to book in a complete set by rarity, "bulk" is done in minutes. The fourth route earns its place where those two do not reach: the mixed, unsorted intake where every card has to be identified first and several card games lie jumbled together.

The details without which no row exists

Whichever of the four routes you take, the same attributes have to be settled per card, or the row is either wrong or unsellable.

• The Cardmarket version: not the card, but the specific print from a specific set.
• Quantity, condition and language.
• Foil or reverse holo and, where it applies, the edition.
• Optionally a price and a comment per row.

The workflow in three steps

The path is always the same, no matter what you walk it with.

• Capture: photograph or type the cards and settle their attributes.
• File: build an import file from what you captured, one per card game.
• List: import that file into a tool that writes the stock to Cardmarket.

The step where it gets stuck

A card name does not identify a card, it identifies a family of prints. The same name can carry more than a dozen versions across different sets, numbers and rarities, and special treatments such as alternate art are separate entries with their own price. Get it wrong and you either sell below value or ship something other than what the buyer ordered. That is the real bottleneck, not the photographing and not the import.

Mixed stacks

Incoming stock rarely holds a single card game. Since the import runs per game, the stack has to be split by the time the file exists at the latest. In CardEntry that happens on export: Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokémon and Magic each get their own file without you sorting first.

The template saves the input you repeat

Whatever is nearly always the same belongs in the template. It prefills new rows, language for instance: if you mostly book in German cards, set it to German once and correct only the exceptions afterwards. On the file route you do not need this, the language is in every row already. On the three manual routes it saves one action per card.

What you need for it

A Cardmarket seller account and a tool that writes stock there. CardEntry does the part before that: capture, match, file. It charges credits rather than a subscription. In TCG PowerTools you can try things without subscribing: the free version knows all four routes including the file import and publishes up to 50 new changes a day. What it locks are the CSV export, automatic pricing and the Pricing Bot. Anything beyond that needs a paid subscription.