Release morning, forty people outside, and the third person in the queue wants two Elite Trainer Boxes when the limit is one. The counter is where Pokemon retail is won or lost. This is the till side of TCG Sync: limits enforced at the register, slabs sold out of the locked case without a side spreadsheet, trade-ins graded while the customer watches, and a drawer that balances at close.
Generic retail tills were not designed for a release-day queue, a four-figure slab, and a shoebox of trade-ins arriving inside the same hour. These are the counter workflows.
Per-customer caps on hot sealed apply at the till, not only online. Staff pull up the customer account, the POS shows what they have already taken during this drop, and the second box is blocked before the queue notices.
PSA, BGS and CGC copies are individual stock records carrying their certificate number and their own price, so a slab sold from the locked case leaves inventory the moment it is rung through.
Grade the stack with the customer watching, apply your rate card by condition and category, then pay notes from the drawer or push store credit onto their account. Accepted cards become sellable stock without re-entry.
Point a phone at a stack, confirm set and condition, and push the cards into inventory or a buylist submission. Nothing is typed between the binder and the shelf.
Cash tenders open the drawer, receipts print or email, and the close-down report reconciles takings, refunds, credit issued and buylist payouts before staff lock up.
Each till signs in per staff member, so discounts, refunds, price overrides and accepted trade-ins are attributable, with permissions set by role.
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Related topics, running on the same platform underneath.
The ecommerce side: catalogue, pre-orders, online buylist, marketplace sync and shipping.
League registration, sealed allocation, stock split and the first-year budget.
Camera intake for the stacks that arrive behind the counter.
What happens to a trade-in payout once it lands on the customer account.