CardsteadTrades 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 a shop moving.
Currently onboarding by invitationInvited stores receive a 30-day trial. Unlimited staff. No transaction fees.
Daily operations
Explore the product Keep the day's work in one place.
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.
Read about security and customer dataPricing
$39.99 per month for your first store.
Additional stores cost $19.99 per month. Add as many employees as you need. No transaction fees or revenue share.
See pricing detailsCustomers and store creditTrade intake and payoutsReminders and calendarsMoney activity and reportsPeople, locations, and policies
Guides for card shops
View all resources 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 measure yield on a $600 bulk collection without calling it profit
Track acquisition cost, processing sessions, identified singles, bulk outputs, labor, value yield, and final storage separately.
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 guideA singles storage map that tells staff where the sellable copy is
Connect card identity, storage hierarchy, capacity, placement rules, picks, staged work, and full-scope moves.
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 guideA card-shop opening and closing routine built for handoffs
Open a $200 drawer, check trades and event product, reconcile shift cash, and leave the next employee a usable shop record.
Read guideHow to move trades, credit, and preorders out of shop spreadsheets
A card-shop cutover plan for reconciling customer credit, matching open trades to physical custody, and freezing side channels.
Read guideWhat the record should show when an employee changes store credit
A $240 duplicate-credit example with role thresholds, linked trade issuance, append-only correction, and pattern review.
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.
Read guideHow to keep store-credit records your team can trust
A practical way to record additions, redemptions, corrections, approvals, and customer questions without relying on memory.
Read guideA practical trade-intake process from drop-off to payout
What to record as cards move through intake, review, approval, customer decision, and payout.
Read guideHow to review a register shortage without guessing
A calm checklist for confirming the count, rebuilding expected cash, reviewing payouts, and recording what happened.
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