Quantity Rules

Quantity rules control how many copies of each card your buylist will accept. Without rules, every card on your buylist shows “wanted: unlimited” — which is fine for small buylists but becomes a problem when a customer tries to ship you 40 copies of a card you already have a full box of.

Quantity rules let you say things like:

“Buy up to 4 copies of any standard card”
“Buy unlimited bulk commons”
“Stock exactly 8 of any Modern staple worth $10 or more”
“Don’t buy anything from older sets right now”

Like pricing rules, quantity rules cascade — every rule is evaluated in order, and the last matching rule wins.

The Three Quantity Modes

Fixed: Buy Up to N Copies

The buylist accepts up to a specific number of copies from each customer submission.

Example: Fixed: 4 A customer with 6 copies of Lightning Bolt can submit 4. The remaining 2 aren’t quoted.

Use fixed quantities when you have a clear maximum you want to hold — 4 is the tournament playset standard, 8 gives you some buffer for sales.

Unlimited: Accept Any Amount

The buylist accepts however many copies the customer offers. No cap.

Example: Unlimited A customer submitting 200 bulk commons gets all 200 quoted.

Use unlimited for:

Bulk cards where quantity is irrelevant (you’ll sell them in lots)
Chase cards you genuinely cannot have too many of
Cards you’re specifically trying to stock up on before a spike

Up to Max (Target Stock Level): Buy Until You Have Enough

The buylist calculates how many copies you need to reach a target inventory level, and accepts that many — no more.

Example: Up to max: 8 If you have 5 copies of Smothering Tithe in stock, the buylist will accept up to 3 more from a customer submission. Once you hit 8 in stock, the card drops off the buylist automatically for new submissions.

This is the most powerful mode. It keeps your buylist honest — you’re only buying what you actually need, and customers don’t receive quotes for cards that will sit in a drawer.

The Exclude Toggle

Any rule can exclude matching cards from the buylist entirely. Excluded cards don’t show up for customers at all — no quantity, no price.

Example use cases:

Exclude all cards under $0.10 (not worth the postage)
Exclude everything from sets you’re overstocked on
Exclude sealed product during a restock period
Start a buylist in a “nothing accepted” state and gradually open it up

When a card matches an exclude rule, it disappears from the public buylist page as if it doesn’t exist.

The Cascade: Last Matching Rule Wins

Rules are numbered and evaluated in order. The last matching rule determines the outcome.

Example cascade:

Position 1: All cards           → Fixed qty: 4
Position 2: Mythic or Rare      → Fixed qty: 8
Position 3: Market under $0.25  → Exclude
Position 4: Market price $100+  → Unlimited
Position 5: "Black Lotus"       → Fixed qty: 1

Walking through a $3.00 rare:

Rule 1 matches → qty 4
Rule 2 matches → qty 8
Rule 3 doesn’t match ($3.00 is over $0.25)
Rule 4 doesn’t match
Rule 5 doesn’t match

Result: qty 8 (last match was rule 2)

Walking through a $0.02 common:

Rule 1 matches → qty 4
Rule 2 doesn’t match
Rule 3 matches → Exclude

Result: Excluded — the card doesn’t appear on the buylist.

Quantity Rules and Pricing Rules Are Independent

Quantity and pricing rules are separate cascades that run independently. A card gets a quantity from the quantity cascade and a price from the pricing cascade — these don’t interfere with each other.

One exception: if a quantity rule excludes a card, the card doesn’t appear regardless of what the pricing cascade says.

Cookbook: Common Rule Setups

Standard Buylist

You want to buy playsets of everything, more of the good stuff, and skip junk.

Position 1: All cards           → Fixed qty: 4
Position 2: Mythic or Rare      → Fixed qty: 8
Position 3: Market under $0.25  → Exclude

Simple and effective for most stores. Customers know they can sell up to 4 of anything and up to 8 of rares.

Inventory-Driven Buying

You only buy what you actually need to restock. Quantities automatically adjust as inventory changes.

Position 1: All cards           → Up to max: 4
Position 2: Market $10+         → Up to max: 8
Position 3: Market under $0.25  → Unlimited

If you have 4 copies of a $10 staple in stock, the buylist shows 0 wanted — no wasted orders. As you sell copies, the buylist opens back up automatically.

Event Prep: Buy Into a Specific Format

You’re preparing for a Standard tournament weekend and only want Standard-legal cards.

Position 1: All cards           → Exclude
Position 2: Sets (MKM, OTJ, BLB, DSK, FDN, INS) → Fixed qty: 4
Position 3: Mythic in Standard sets → Fixed qty: 8

Start by excluding everything, then carve out exactly what you want. This is the clearest signal you can send to customers: “we’re only buying Standard right now.”

High-Volume Bulk Buying

You do a lot of bulk buying and want clear limits on everything except actual bulk.

Position 1: Market under $0.10  → Unlimited
Position 2: Market $0.10–$1.00  → Fixed qty: 8
Position 3: Market $1.00+       → Fixed qty: 4
Position 4: Mythic $1.00+       → Fixed qty: 8

The bulk tier at the bottom is unlimited — you’ll take as many $0.02 commons as anyone wants to send. Everything else has sensible caps.

Targeted Singles Acquisition

You want specific cards badly and will take as many as you can get.

Position 1: All cards           → Fixed qty: 4
Position 2: Card name = "Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer" → Unlimited
Position 3: Card name = "Orcish Bowmasters" → Unlimited
Position 4: Card name = "Teferi, Time Raveler" → Unlimited

Named-card rules at the bottom of the cascade override the default. Customers browsing your buylist will see “unlimited wanted” on those specific cards — a clear signal you’re buying aggressively.

Manual Quantity Overrides

Any individual card on your buylist can have its quantity set manually, bypassing rules. This is useful when:

A specific card needs a different cap than its rarity/price tier suggests
You want to temporarily stop buying one card without changing your rules
You received a large collection and are now overstocked on specific cards

To put a card back on rule-calculated quantities, use Reset to calculated on that card’s line item.

Cards Not Appearing on the Buylist

If a card isn’t showing up on your public buylist and you expect it to, check whether an exclude rule is matching it. Common causes:

A broad “Market under $X → Exclude” rule that’s catching more cards than intended
A set-specific exclude rule covering a set the card belongs to
The card’s market price is $0 (no pricing data yet) and you have a min-price filter

To narrow it down: check your quantity rules in order and think through which criteria the card matches.

What’s Next

Buy Pricing Rules — Set what you’ll pay per card
The Order Flow — What happens after a customer submits an order
Creating a Buylist — Buylist setup and condition configuration
../customers/store-credit — Store credit payout management

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