Sell and price Yu-Gi-Oh! cards on Shopify

On the shelf

What Yu-Gi-Oh! shops sell

Yu-Gi-Oh! shops sell meta staples and hand traps to tournament players, high-rarity versions to collectors, and older cards to nostalgia buyers. The same card is reprinted often, across booster sets, tins and collections, each with its own set code and rarity, and prices between those versions can be far apart.

• Booster boxes

  Core sets and special sets, for players and pack openers.

• Structure decks

  Low-priced, often bought in threes to build one deck.

• Tins

  Yearly tins of reprints, popular with new players.

• Collector sets

  Rarity-focused releases bought mostly for chase cards.

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 Yu-Gi-Oh! printings, foils and versions work

Yu-Gi-Oh! cards are printed in editions: 1st Edition, Unlimited, and Limited for some tins and promotional products. TCGplayer lists a market price per edition, and in Synq each card and edition is its own Shopify product.

Every print run also carries a set code, such as LOB-EN001, and a rarity, from Common up to Secret, Starlight or Quarter Century Secret Rare. A reprint of the same card in another set, or at another rarity, is a different card in the catalog with its own price, so you pick the exact version on your shelf.

Conditions

How condition pricing works for Yu-Gi-Oh! cards

Every Yu-Gi-Oh! 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 1st Edition Secret Rare, condition by condition

Say a 1st Edition Secret Rare has a Near Mint market price of $32.00. Your Yu-Gi-Oh! 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 Yu-Gi-Oh! cards with Shopify POS

With the Shopify POS app installed, Synq can add new Yu-Gi-Oh! 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 Yu-Gi-Oh! 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, edition included. From your own sheet, a set code in a Card number column helps you find each row quickly in Review, since card names alone fit many reprints. Each import takes up to 5,000 products.