Shop Tools · for shops & breakers

Price a stack of cards in one go.

Photograph each card front and back, up to 10 at a time. Every card comes back identified and priced from real completed sales — then one tap sends them all into your shop's inventory.

● 60 days free, then $49.99/month

Open the shop tools → Built for a phone at the table; the inventory reads best on the counter computer. No card needed. Already a shop? Read the how-to guide →

What you get

Built from watching one problem: pricing cards one at a time is the slowest part of buying a collection.

Stack Scan

Ten cards, both sides, priced together

Front and back of each card, up to 10 at a time, with the same checks as a single scan: year, serial number, exact card number, slab grade. Then “Add all to inventory”.

Inventory

Everything lands in one place

Scanned cards go into a shared shop inventory with what you paid and what it's worth, so staff and owner see the same list.

Breaks

Break manager

Price the hits as they come out, keep the list with the break, and know what the box actually returned rather than guessing afterwards.

Staff

More than one person

Invite staff to the shop. They scan and price on their own phones; the inventory stays yours.

Counter Mode: your shop's price screen

A customer walks in with cards. Instead of reading them a number off your phone, you turn the tablet around.

Your Shop Name

2018 Topps Update Shohei Ohtani RC #US285

$85

We'll pay you

Behind a staff PIN: sold typical $143 · 56 sales · range $85–$365 · last sale 2 days ago · your sticker price $186. The customer never sees your margin.

✓Your name, logo and colours on the screen — it looks like your shop, not like someone else's app.
✓You set the percentages. Buying at 60% of sold and stickering at 130%? Your numbers, applied every time.
✓Two modes: customer selling sees your offer, customer buying sees your price.
✓Staff view behind a PIN: the sold price, the sales chart, the price line and the warnings. Hidden from the counter, one tap away for you.
✓It says "let us check this one" when the sales mix several versions of a card, instead of quoting a number nobody should trade on.

Why a shop would trust the number

The same rules the public scanner runs on, which is the whole point.

→Completed sales, not asking prices. What buyers actually paid in the last 30 days, including accepted best offers.
→Raw priced from raw sales. Graded copies don't get averaged in to flatter a raw card.
→It refuses when it should. Mixed parallels, too few sales, a card it couldn't read — you get "check by hand", not a confident guess.
→You can check the work. Every price links to the sales it came from.

What it costs

$49.99/month

Free for your first 60 days · no card to start · cancel anytime

✓ Stack Scan — 10 cards at a time, straight to inventory
✓ Counter Mode with your branding and prices
✓ Shared inventory and break manager
✓ Staff accounts
✓ 1,500 photo scans a month per shop

Open the shop tools → Sign in with an emailed code. No password, no card.

Honest about where it's at

This is small, and new. CardGauge is built by one collector, not a company with a support desk. Counter Mode went live in September and the shop tools are out of beta as of October — but you would be among the first shops actually running on them. That is the honest state of it, and it is why the first 60 days are free: your cards will find the holes, and I'd rather hear about them than guess.

What it won't do yet: take payments, print labels, or replace your POS. It prices cards, keeps the list, and puts a straight number on the counter.

Questions, or something priced wrong? cardgauge@gmail.com — it comes to me.