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Notes from both sides of the counter.

How shops and collectors use VaultXchange, what's new in the app, and what we've learned running a card shop.

What is VaultXchange?

One app for both sides of the hobby: the shop running its business, and the collectors it serves.

Buy rates, credit versus cash, the buy spread and aging stock. A practical guide to making trade-ins pay off for a card shop.

Why shops offer more in store credit than in cash, how to decide which one to take, and how to keep track of credit at every shop you use.

Vendor applications, floor maps, table fees, check-in, reminders and giveaways. A promoter's guide to running a card show without the spreadsheets.

A step-by-step guide to selling cards to a shop you already know, from picking cards and comparing quotes to inspection and getting paid.

How the two ways to pay for VaultXchange Shop work, what counts toward the 2%, and where the break-even point is.

What changes when your counter and your customers' phones are part of the same system, and how to start without replacing your register.

It started behind our own counter, as the system we needed to run our shop. Then we connected it to the people who shop there.