Trades and store credit
Manage intake, pricing, approval, payouts, and the ledger behind each customer balance.
Daily operations for card shops
Run the work behind the counter.
Cardstead gives your team one place to manage trades, store credit, money, calendars, employees, and the records that keep every location moving, across the counter or across town.
Every balance change, payout, and approval stays in the record so the next employee picks up where the last left off.
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Daily operations
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Registers and money
Track accounts, register sessions, safe activity, cash movement, budgets, and reports.
Calendars and reminders
Plan releases, events, preorder dates, customer calls, and employee follow-up.
People and access
Manage employees, roles, locations, permissions, and the history behind important actions.
Clear answers
Know what happened without chasing notes or messages.
Cardstead keeps the record behind each balance, payout, approval, and correction so the next employee can pick up where the last one left off.
See how the workflows fit together- 01
Which trades are still waiting for review or a customer decision?
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Why did this customer’s store-credit balance change?
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Who approved this cash payout, and where did the money come from?
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What changed between the expected drawer and the final count?
Access and accountability
Give each employee the access their job requires.
Accounts, locations, and permissions keep each person in the right part of the shop. Important changes stay in the record for owners and managers to review.
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Guides for card shops
View all 17 guides Practical answers for everyday shop work.
How to handle a card-condition disagreement at the trade counter
A condition-review process with inspection notes, pricing math, escalation triggers, and a record both buyer and customer can follow.
Read guideHow to close an event-night drawer with trades, entries, and safe drops
A worked Friday-night closeout that separates cash sales, entry fees, trade payouts, paid-outs, transfers, and physical count.
Read guideHow to reconstruct a disputed store-credit balance
A worked ledger timeline for finding unsupported corrections, checking hidden history, and fixing the balance without erasing the record.
Read guideHow to build card-shop buylist rules that buyers can actually use
Turn demand, condition, stock ceilings, market references, and cash-versus-credit rates into a repeatable counter process.
Read guideA worked $1,200 trade payout from offer to safe reconciliation
Follow one collection through lot notes, 60% cash and 70% credit options, approval, settlement, correction, and closeout.
Read guideThe shop ordered 48 boxes and received 36. What gets allocated?
A short-allocation worksheet for preorders, events, store transfers, shelf stock, customer contact, and vendor exceptions.
Read guideHow to cycle-count a high-value singles case without closing the shop
Define a small count scope, pause movement, count blind, trace picks and transfers, and approve only true inventory adjustments.
Read guideHow to transfer singles between stores without losing custody
A four-copy transfer example covering source count, packing, in-transit state, partial receipt, condition mismatch, and placement.
Read guideYour POS says $3,842. What happened in the rest of the shop?
Map Friday-night sales, trades, store credit, cash payouts, safe transfers, event registration, and follow-up to the right records.
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