Live Catalogs — How Your Catalog Stays Up to Date

Sideboard’s card catalogs update automatically. When a new set is announced and products are listed by the data source, they appear in your Sideboard catalog within 24 hours — no manual import, no support ticket, no waiting.

This page explains the data lifecycle so you know what to expect and when.

You don’t have to do anything

The short version: new sets appear on their own. When a publisher announces a new set and it shows up in our catalog source, Sideboard picks it up overnight and it’s available in your catalog the next morning.

New products also inherit pricing automatically — market prices from our market data feed populate on the next scheduled sync after the set lands.

That’s the whole story for most stores. The rest of this page is for those who want to understand how it works.

The data lifecycle

Step 1 — Products arrive in the catalog source

Our catalog source tracks new products for every game Sideboard supports. When a publisher lists a new set — new cards, new sealed product, new accessories — it shows up there first. This typically happens weeks before release, and presale products arrive with their release date and preorder disclaimer already attached (see Selling Presale Products).

Step 2 — Sideboard’s nightly refresh picks it up

Each night, Sideboard runs a catalog refresh job for each supported game. The job:

1. Checks what sets are currently in the catalog source
2. Compares against what Sideboard already has
3. For any new sets, imports all their products automatically

This runs once per night, staggered across games. If a set shows up in the catalog source today, it’s in Sideboard by tomorrow morning.

Only new sets are imported. Existing sets aren’t re-scanned on every run — that would be redundant and slow. Existing products stay exactly as they are until a relevant update happens (like a presale flag clearing on release day — see Selling Presale Products).

Step 3 — Market prices fill in

Market price data from our pricing feed updates on its own schedule:

• Products you carry in inventory — prices refresh every 6 hours. High-velocity in-stock products stay current throughout the day.
• Everything else in the catalog — prices refresh once every 24 hours. Useful for research and rule-based pricing even for products you don’t currently stock.

Newly imported products get priced on the next scheduled sync after they land. No extra step needed.

When to expect new sets

New sets typically appear in Sideboard within 24 hours of being listed in the catalog source. In practice:

• Sealed product (booster boxes, bundles, etc.) usually appears earliest — often several weeks before release
• Individual cards follow as TCGPlayer catalogs them, typically a few weeks before release
• Alternate art, special treatments, promo variants may appear later as product details are finalized

Once a product is in Sideboard’s catalog, you can add it to your inventory immediately — useful for taking preorders before release.

Slack notifications for new sets

If you’ve connected Sideboard to your Slack workspace, you’ll receive an automatic alert whenever a new set lands in your catalog. The message looks like this:

🆕 Pokémon TCG catalog update: 1 new set
• Surging Sparks (SSP) — 226 products

Pricing fills in at the next scheduled price sync.

Silent days produce no message — you only hear from Sideboard when something actually changed.

See Receiving Slack Alerts to set this up.

Games covered

The nightly auto-refresh covers all games on the TCGPlayer catalog spine:

• Magic: The Gathering
• Pokémon
• Yu-Gi-Oh!
• One Piece Card Game
• Star Wars: Unlimited
• Riftbound: League of Legends TCG
• Gundam
• Disney Lorcana

New games added to Sideboard are wired into the same refresh pipeline on launch.

What’s next

• Selling Presale Products — how presale detection and release-day automation work
• Receiving Slack Alerts — get notified when new sets arrive
• How Pricing Works — market data schedules, pricing rules, and auto-pricing
• Adding Products to Your Inventory — once a set lands, how to add cards to your active stock

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