What is a buylist?

How a buylist works

Customers either bring cards to the counter or submit them through an online buylist tool. The shop verifies condition, applies the buylist price, and pays out — instantly in store, or after intake for mail-in submissions.

Buylist prices are typically a fraction of retail (often 40–70% in store credit, 25–50% in cash) to leave margin for grading, listing, repricing, and the risk that the card sits unsold.

Why store credit beats cash

Cash leaves the shop. Store credit comes back through the door. A 60% credit offer that turns into a 70%-margin singles purchase is meaningfully more profitable for the shop than a 40% cash payout — and the customer often perceives it as a better deal.

Why this matters in card-shop software

Terms like Buylist are not just vocabulary. They shape how a card shop models products, prices, customers, trade-ins, events, and marketplace listings. Generic ecommerce platforms usually treat these details as notes or custom fields; a TCG platform has to make them part of the workflow so staff can use them at the counter and customers can use them online.

Storefront Pro uses this kind of operational language throughout the platform: product records, buylist rules, POS screens, autopricing, deckbuilder results, and marketplace sync all depend on the same definitions. That consistency is what keeps inventory accurate when the same card can be sold in-store, online, or on a marketplace in several conditions at once.

Related terms

• 1Cart trade-in — A 1Cart trade-in is the TCG Sync flow that lets a customer buy cards and sell cards back to the shop in the same cart, in the same checkout. Buylist credit is applied instantly against the purchase total — no separate buylist site, no waiting for store credit to land before placing the order.
• Autopricer — An autopricer is software that reprices a card shop's singles automatically against live marketplace data — typically TCGplayer market price, Cardmarket trend price, or eBay sold listings — applying margin rules per channel and per condition.
• Market price vs low — TCGplayer market price is an algorithmic average of recent sold prices across conditions. TCGplayer low is the lowest currently-listed price. Market is more stable and reflects actual transactions; low is a snapshot of the cheapest seller right now and can be skewed by a single outlier.