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.
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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