Sell and price Sorcery: Contested Realm cards on Shopify

On the shelf

What Sorcery shops sell

Sorcery players build an Atlas of sites and a Spellbook around one Avatar, and collectors chase its traditional, painted art. Shops sell Elite and Unique cards to both, plus Avatars and sites for new decks. Alpha cards, from the game's first print run, carry a premium over the same cards in Beta.

• Booster boxes

  The display for each set.

• Preconstructed decks

  Ready-to-play 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 Sorcery printings, foils and versions work

Sorcery rarities run Ordinary, Exceptional, Elite and Unique, and cards come as normal and foil copies. TCGplayer tracks a market price per printing, and in Synq each card and printing is its own Shopify product.

Alpha and Beta share most of their cards but are different sets in the catalog. Each set's copy is its own product with its own price, so when you add an Avatar from Alpha it never picks up the Beta price.

Conditions

How condition pricing works for Sorcery cards

Every Sorcery 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 an Alpha Elite, condition by condition

Say an Alpha Elite has a Near Mint market price of $40.00. Your Sorcery rule uses "Near Mint's, less a percent" with the default percents, keeps the market price (Modify by 0%), 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 Sorcery cards with Shopify POS

With the Shopify POS app installed, Synq can add new Sorcery 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 Sorcery 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, set included. From your own sheet, a Set column matters most for Sorcery, so Alpha and Beta copies of the same card go to the right product. Each import takes up to 5,000 products.