Sell and price Gundam Card Game cards on Shopify

On the shelf

What Gundam shops sell

Gundam decks pair Units with the Pilots who fly them, plus Commands and Bases, built in two colors. Shops sell the playable Units and Pilots of the current sets, and parallel versions and high rarities to collectors who follow the Gundam series. In a young game, a single strong card can swing in price within days.

• Booster boxes

  The GD display for each set.

• Starter decks

  Ready-to-play ST decks, an easy first purchase.

• 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 Gundam printings, foils and versions work

Gundam cards carry a card number like GD01-001 and a rarity. Many cards also come in parallel versions with special art or finish, shown with a plus in the rarity such as LR+, which TCGplayer lists as their own entries with their own market price.

In Synq each version is its own Shopify product, so a parallel never sells at the regular card's price. Where a played condition has no sales history yet, a rule can price it from Near Mint's market less a percent.

Conditions

How condition pricing works for Gundam Card Game cards

Every Gundam 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 parallel Unit, condition by condition

Say a parallel Unit has a Near Mint market price of $14.00. Your Gundam rule uses "Near Mint's, less a percent" with the default percents, modifies it by +5%, 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 Gundam Card Game cards with Shopify POS

With the Shopify POS app installed, Synq can add new Gundam 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 Gundam Card Game 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. If you've tracked Gundam in a spreadsheet since launch, a name or card number column and a quantity are enough to start. Each import takes up to 5,000 products.