Adding Your First Game

Sideboard is organized around the games you sell. Each game you subscribe to unlocks the full card catalog, live market prices, inventory management, and buylist tools for that game. Subscribing happens directly from your dashboard — no Settings detour, no separate billing page to hunt down.

Supported games

Sideboard currently supports eight TCGs:

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

New games are added periodically. They show up in the Explore catalogs grid as they go live.

Browse before you subscribe

You can preview any game’s catalog for free, no commitment. On your dashboard, find the game in the Explore catalogs grid and click Browse →. You’ll land in that game’s Catalogue view where you can search cards, filter by set, check market prices, and get a feel for the data.

Subscribing is what unlocks inventory management and buylists for that game. Until you subscribe, you can look but you can’t add the game to your stock or accept buylist offers on it.

How billing works

• $150 CAD per game per month, or $1,500 CAD per year (effectively two months free)
• Tax is added at checkout based on your location
• You’re billed per game, not per seat or per location
• You can mix yearly and monthly across different games, but a given game’s cadence is fixed at the time of subscription — switching cadences mid-cycle means waiting until the end of the period
• Promo codes can be applied at Stripe Checkout if you have one — some referral codes auto-apply
• You can cancel any time. Access continues until the end of the period you’ve already paid for

Past-due: if a renewal payment fails, you’ll have a grace window to update your card before access to that game’s inventory and buylist tools is paused. Your catalog data and historical inventory aren’t deleted — you just lose write access until billing is resolved.

Step 1: Find the game on your dashboard

Sign in at app.sideboard.gg and head to the dashboard. Scroll down to the Explore catalogs section — it’s a grid of cards for every game you haven’t yet subscribed to. Each card shows:

• The game’s name (e.g. “Magic: The Gathering”)
• The price ($150 / month, with the annual savings noted)
• A Subscribe button (dark)
• A Browse → link (lighter, for previewing without subscribing)

If you have a promo code already attached to your account, you’ll see the discounted price displayed.

Step 2: Click Subscribe

Click the Subscribe button on the game’s card. Sideboard creates a Stripe Checkout session and redirects you to Stripe to enter payment details.

Why Stripe? All payment processing happens through Stripe — your card details go directly to Stripe and are never stored on Sideboard’s servers. You’ll get an email receipt from Stripe once payment processes.

Step 3: Complete checkout

In Stripe Checkout:

1. Confirm the game and the monthly or annual pricing (you may see options for both)
2. Apply a promo code in the discount field if you have one
3. Enter your card details
4. Confirm the order

Stripe processes the charge and redirects you back to Sideboard. Once payment confirms, Sideboard activates your access to that game and the catalog begins to populate.

What happens next: the first few hours

After your subscription activates, Sideboard does several things automatically. You don’t need to do anything — but here’s the timeline so you’re not surprised.

Catalog appears in the sidebar

Almost immediately, the game appears in your left sidebar with three sub-sections:

• Browse — the full card catalog with search and filters
• Inventories — your stock for this game (empty to start)
• Buylists — your buy offers for this game (empty to start)

It also moves from Explore catalogs into Your catalogs on the dashboard.

Catalog data populates

For most games, the catalog is already in Sideboard’s database and is immediately available. For very recent set releases or brand-new game additions, there may be a short delay (minutes, not hours) while the daily catalog refresh picks up the newest products.

Market prices flow in

Market price data comes from Sideboard’s pricing data partner. Prices refresh on a schedule:

• Cards in your inventory are repriced every 6 hours so your active stock stays current
• Cards in the catalog but not in your inventory are refreshed once a day

For a brand-new subscription, you’ll see prices on the most-traded singles right away (they’re already cached). Less-traded cards populate over the first 24 hours.

Shopify (if connected)

If you’ve already connected a Shopify store, Sideboard begins pushing the new game’s inventory variants to Shopify as you add inventory items. Until you add items, nothing pushes — the catalog itself doesn’t go to Shopify, only your stock does.

After the import: what to do first

Once your game is live, the most useful next steps are:

Import your existing inventory. If you already have stock, the fastest way is a CSV import — Sideboard auto-detects BinderPOS exports and accepts a generic format too. See CSV import.

Set up pricing rules. Before putting cards up for sale, configure how Sideboard prices your inventory automatically as market moves. See Pricing rules.

Create a buylist. If you buy cards from customers, publish a buylist so they can see your offers and submit orders. See Creating a buylist.

Adding more games later

The flow is identical to your first game: go to the dashboard’s Explore catalogs grid, click Subscribe on the next game, complete Stripe Checkout. Sideboard adds the new subscription alongside your existing one — your billing cadence stays consistent across all your games.

Managing and canceling subscriptions

To review your active subscriptions, update your payment method, see invoices, or cancel a game, go to Settings → Billing. From there you can:

• See your next renewal date and the games you’re subscribed to
• Open the Stripe customer portal to update your card or download invoices
• Cancel an individual game — cancellation takes effect at the end of your current paid period

If you cancel and later re-subscribe to the same game, your catalog data and inventory are preserved. Nothing is deleted on cancellation.

What’s next

• Adding products to inventory — Start tracking your stock for this game.
• Setting up pricing rules — Automate your sell prices.
• Creating your first buylist — Publish buy offers for customers.

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