Sell and price Elestrals cards on Shopify

On the shelf

What Elestrals shops sell

Elestrals shops sell playable singles to a growing player base and higher-rarity art versions to collectors. In a smaller game, fewer copies change hands, so a fair price for a played card is harder to see from sales alone.

• Booster boxes

  The display for each set.

• Starter decks

  Ready decks for new players.

• Packs

  Single packs from an opened display.

In Synq, singles and sealed live apart. A single is one Shopify product per card and printing, with a variant for each condition. A sealed product is one product with a single Unopened variant. Each game can send its singles and its sealed product to their own Shopify collections.

Printings and versions

How Elestrals printings, foils and versions work

Elestrals cards come as Normal, Holo or Reverse Holo printings, and Full Art and Stellar versions are listed as their own entries, each with its own market price on TCGplayer, and in Synq each one is its own Shopify product.

Played conditions of a smaller game often have no market price of their own. A Synq rule can price them from Near Mint's market less a percent, so every condition still gets a price.

Conditions

How condition pricing works for Elestrals cards

Every Elestrals single can carry five conditions, each its own Shopify variant with its own price and stock. Sealed product has one, Unopened. Your price rule prices each condition in one of two ways.

• Each condition's market price

  The default. Each condition follows its own TCGplayer market price. A played condition with no market price of its own uses Near Mint's, less the percent you set for it.

• Near Mint's, less a percent

  Every condition is priced from Near Mint's market price, less its own percent. Useful where played copies rarely sell.

A worked example

Pricing a rare foil, condition by condition

Say a rare foil has a Near Mint market price of $6.00. Your Elestrals rule uses "Near Mint's, less a percent" with the default percents, modifies it by +10%, and rounds up to x.99. Here is what each condition would list at.

Example numbers in US dollars, not live prices. Synq converts market prices to your store's currency and rounds in that currency.

A rule can also set a minimum, a fixed amount or your cost plus a margin, so no condition lists below it. Before anything changes on Shopify, the rule's preview shows the original and updated price of every product and condition.

At the counter

Ring up Elestrals cards with Shopify POS

With the Shopify POS app installed, Synq can add new Elestrals products to Point of Sale with scannable barcodes. Each single gets its own code per condition, so scanning a Lightly Played copy rings up the Lightly Played price, and sealed product gets the box UPC from the catalog, or a Synq code when there isn't one. Synq doesn't print labels; Shopify's free Retail Barcode Labels app does, if you skip its option to create barcodes.

Moving in

Bring the Elestrals cards you already have

A TCGplayer export is recognized on upload and read as exact SKUs, so card, printing and condition match. Your own CSV can have any columns; Synq matches each row by TCGplayer SKU, TCGplayer ID, barcode or name, and you review the matches before anything is created. Products already in Shopify can be linked one at a time, and Synq takes over their price and stock from the next rule run.

A TCGplayer export comes in as exact SKUs. From your own sheet, a name and quantity are enough; rows Synq can't place download as a list with the reason for each. Each import takes up to 5,000 products.