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: type the name or set plus collector number, set the attributes, create. For a handful of unsorted cards.
• By expansion: for a sorted stack from one set. You walk the set’s cards alphabetically or by collector number; 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.
• File import: for anything captured somewhere else first, as a CSV or Excel file. 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. For a few cards, “Single card” is usually fastest. If a sorted stack from a single set is in front of you, “By expansion” with its hotkeys is hard to beat, especially when the set is nearly complete, 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 three do not reach: a large number of mixed, unsorted cards that have to be identified first, with several card games jumbled together. Then the prepared CSV is fastest.

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

With CardEntry the fourth route looks like this. Scan or upload existing images so the workflow runs with as little manual work as possible.

• Capture: import image files from your scanner into CardEntry, or photograph the cards with the camera mode on your phone.
• Check: confirm the automatically matched cards, correct the outliers. CardEntry provides one CSV per card game.
• Import: upload the CSV to TCG PowerTools. PowerTools recognises the cards by their Cardmarket ID.

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: each card game gets its 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, one credit per card image, and you get 500 of them free when you first sign in. 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. For more cards per day you additionally need a paid PowerTools subscription, which is not included in the CardEntry price.