Glossary
What is a 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.
Why it matters operationally
Traditional buylist flows are two transactions: the customer submits a buylist, waits for credit, then comes back to spend it. The 1Cart trade-in collapses that into one. The customer adds the cards they want to buy, scans or selects the cards they want to trade in, and the cart nets the two against each other.
For the shop, this materially increases trade-in conversion. Customers who would have abandoned the round-trip complete it because there's no friction between sell and buy.
Why this matters in card-shop software
Terms like 1Cart trade-in 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
- Buylist — A buylist is the set of prices a card shop offers customers for cards they want to sell or trade in. Most shops publish two prices per card: a lower cash rate and a higher store-credit rate.
- 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.
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