Shop Tools · for shops & breakers

Price a whole table in one photo.

Lay the cards out, take one picture, and every card comes back identified and priced from real completed sales — straight into your shop's inventory.

● Free while the beta runs

Open the shop tools → Fine on a phone — better on the counter computer, where a whole table fits on screen. No card needed.

What you get

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

Multi-Scan

One photo, a table of cards

Lay a row or a whole table out and photograph the lot. Each card is cut out, identified and priced separately. Ready for a break, a case or a buy.

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

Free

while the Business beta runs · $49.99/month afterwards, and you'll be told before that starts

✓ Multi-Scan — a whole table in one photo
✓ 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 a beta, and small. CardGauge is built by one collector, not a company with a support desk. Counter Mode went live in September and a handful of shops are trying it. That's why it's free right now: 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.