Creating Your First Buylist

A buylist is your store’s public list of cards you’re willing to buy from customers, complete with prices and quantity limits. Customers visit your buylist page, add cards they want to sell, get a live quote, and submit an order. Cards arrive by mail, you grade them, and pay out — cash or store credit.

Getting your buylist live takes about 10 minutes. Here’s how.

Before You Start

You need at least one card game enabled on your store. Sideboard supports MTG, Riftbound, One Piece, Star Wars: Unlimited, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokémon, Gundam, and Disney Lorcana. Each buylist covers one game.

Step 1: Create the Buylist

Go to Buylists in the sidebar and click New Buylist.

Choose your card game. You’ll get one buylist per game per store — Sideboard manages the card catalog and pricing data for that game automatically.

Give your buylist a name (customers don’t see this name; it’s just for your team’s reference — “MTG Buylist Spring 2026” works fine).

Step 2: Configure Default Condition

The default condition is the card condition your buylist is anchored to. It tells customers what condition to ship, and it’s the baseline that Sideboard uses when calculating buy prices.

Recommendation: Start with Lightly Played. Customers self-assess, and your graders will adjust during intake if cards come in worse condition than claimed.

The condition adjustments — how much you pay relative to NM for each grade — are set automatically and can be tuned later:

Step 3: Set Up the Store Credit Bonus

When customers choose store credit instead of cash, Sideboard automatically inflates the payout. The default is 30% bonus — a customer whose cards are worth $10 cash gets $13 in store credit.

You can adjust this in the buylist settings. A 20–40% bonus is standard for the industry.

Step 4: Add Your Public Store Details

Under Buylist Settings, fill in:

• Store name — The name customers see on the public buylist page (use your public-facing brand name, not an internal label)
• Shipping address — Where customers mail their cards after the store approves their order

These appear directly on your public buylist page, so keep them accurate.

Step 5: Publish the Buylist

Toggle Public to enable the customer-facing page.

Once enabled, your buylist is live at:

app.sideboard.gg/b/[your-store-slug]/[game]

You can share this URL on your website, social media, and in-store signage. Customers don’t need an account to browse or submit — they just need their name and email.

Step 6: Set Up Pricing and Quantity Rules

A published buylist with no rules will show $0.00 for every card. Before you start taking orders, set up:

1. Pricing rules — what percentage of market (or your list price) you’ll pay. See Buy Pricing Rules.
2. Quantity rules — how many copies of each card you’ll accept. See Quantity Rules.

You can also manually override the price or quantity on any individual card.

Archiving a Buylist

If you want to pause buying without losing your rules and history, use Archive instead of delete. Archived buylists disappear from the public URL immediately but all orders, rules, and settings are preserved. You can unarchive at any time.

Key Settings at a Glance

What’s Next

• Buy Pricing Rules — Set what percentage of market price you’ll pay
• Quantity Rules — Cap how many copies of each card you’ll accept
• The Order Flow — What happens after a customer submits
• ../customers/store-credit — Managing store credit payouts

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