Alternative
A BinderPOS alternative for Shopify card shops
TCGplayer is not taking new BinderPOS customers. If you were planning to open a Shopify card store on it, or want to move off it, here is where things stand, what Synq covers, what it doesn't, and how to bring your stock across.
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Written by the Synq team, who make one of the apps compared. Last checked October 2026. Competitor facts come from their public pages and App Store listings, linked at the bottom.
Where things stand
What happened to BinderPOS sign-ups
BinderPOS is a Shopify-based POS and inventory system for card stores, owned by TCGplayer. TCGplayer's own page says it is pausing new seller onboarding and sign-ups, and asks interested stores to fill in a form instead.
Other sources date the change to February 2025 and say existing stores can keep using it. TCG Sync, which sells a competing product, notes that binderpos.com now redirects to TCGplayer's point-of-sale page and that it has seen no shutdown date.
So if you already run BinderPOS, nothing forces you to move today. If you're starting a store, you'll need something else.1,2,3,4
What you'd be replacing
What BinderPOS does
Per TCGplayer's page, BinderPOS covers more than pricing:
- Inventory and a website on your Shopify store (it needs a Shopify account)
- A point of sale
- A buylist for buying cards from customers
- Ticketed and non-ticketed events, online and at the POS
- A TCGplayer integration (USA only)
- $100 or $150 a month, plus 2% on online sales and 2.5% on sales through the TCGplayer integration
Sources1
The Shopify-native path
What Synq covers
Synq is a Shopify app, so your store, theme, checkout and Shopify POS stay exactly as they are. It handles the card side:
- A catalog of 19 games. Search by name or number, or type @ to pick a set, and add the card in the condition and quantity you have.
- One Shopify product per card and printing, with a variant per condition (NM, LP, MP, HP, DMG), plus sealed product.
- TCGplayer market prices, every day, converted to your store's currency.
- Price rules by game, set, rarity, printing and condition, with a minimum from your cost and rounding. Preview the changes, then run, or schedule it.
- A scannable code per condition for singles and the box UPC for sealed, so Shopify POS rings up the right card.
- No commission on your sales. Plans are free up to 100 products, then $29, $79 or $149 a month.
Said plainly
What Synq doesn't do
Not in Synq
If these run your store, Synq alone won't replace BinderPOS.
- No buylist or trade-in. Use a separate buylist app, or a platform that has one.
- No events or tournaments. Run them in another tool.
- No export of your inventory.
- No TCGplayer marketplace sync. Synq prices your Shopify store only.
- No label printing. Use Shopify's free Retail Barcode Labels app with Synq's codes.
If you need all of it in one place
Platforms that include a buylist, events and their own POS:
- SortSwift: buylist from its $219 bundle, POS and events (beta) from $249, with Shopify as a sync.
- Crystal Commerce: its own webstore, POS and buylist, at $99 a month plus 2.5% of online sales.
- LGS Forge: a Shopify app with a buylist in beta, for Magic, Pokémon and Riftbound.
Moving your stock
Moving to Synq, step by step
You can bring stock in a batch at a time and keep selling while you do.
- 1
Install Synq and pick your games
Setup asks which games you sell and what your prices should be compared with TCGplayer's market price. That becomes your first price rule, which runs daily at 6:00 in your store's time zone.
- 2
Decide: link or import
If your cards are already Shopify products, link them so Synq keeps those products and takes over price and stock. Linking is one product at a time. For cards not in Shopify yet, import a file instead, so you don't end up with two products for one card.
- 3
Import a TCGplayer export or a spreadsheet
CSV, TSV or TXT (save Excel files as CSV first), up to 5,000 products per import. A TCGplayer export is read as exact SKUs. A spreadsheet needs a name, TCGplayer ID or barcode per line. Rows Synq can't match download as a file with the reason.
- 4
Preview the rule, then run it
The preview shows every price that would go up or down. Run it when it looks right. Prices you set by hand inside Synq are left alone.
- 5
Turn on POS codes
In Settings, Point of Sale, turn on codes for singles and sealed. Print labels with Shopify's Retail Barcode Labels app.
BinderPOS questions
What stores ask us when they can't sign up, or want to move.
Write to us.The founder answers, usually the same day.help@synq.cardsNot right now. TCGplayer's point-of-sale page says it is pausing new seller onboarding and sign-ups, with a form to register interest. Check that page for the latest.
Last checked October 2026
Sources
Facts about other tools come from these pages, read in October 2026. Facts about Synq come from the app itself. If something here is out of date, write to help@synq.cards and we'll fix it.
- 1TCGplayer Point of Sale (BinderPOS) pagehttps://seller.tcgplayer.com/point-of-sale
- 2SortSwift: SortSwift vs BinderPOShttps://sortswift.com/compare/binderpos
- 3SleeveIQ: LGS inventory management software comparedhttps://www.sleeveiq.com/tools/lgs/inventory-management
- 4TCG Sync blog: BinderPOS ownership change and migration pathhttps://tcgsync.com/blog/binderpos-going-dark-migration-path
- 5SortSwift pricing pagehttps://sortswift.com/pricing
- 6Crystal Commerce pricing pagehttps://www.crystalcommerce.com/pricing
- 7LGS Forge home pagehttps://lgsforge.com/
Open on Shopify, priced from day one.
Install Synq from the Shopify App Store. Free up to 100 products, with every feature, and 7 days free on paid plans.
- cards put up for sale on Shopify with Synq
- 66,000+
- prices checked against the market, automatically
- 2.2M
- games in the catalog, from Magic and Pokémon to Riftbound
- 19
Live figures from Synq across real card shops, October 2026