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MTG inventory software, by seller type.

"MTG inventory software" covers at least three different products sold to three different people, and most comparisons quietly rank them against each other as if they competed. They don't. Below are the tools sellers actually ask about, grouped by the job they're built for, with the facts from each product's own public pages. Find your row first; the right tool follows from it.

If you are cataloging a collection you own

These are phone apps built for people who own cards, not people shipping them. They're good at that job, they're cheap, and neither one has any idea where a card physically sits.

ManaBox

Magic only. iOS, iPadOS, Android, macOS on Apple Silicon. Free with ads, PRO $2.49/mo or $22.99/yr.

Camera scanning, offline card search across every set, live prices from several sources, deck building, and collections organized into binders and lists. Its CSV export has quietly become the interchange format for the hobby: ManaPool ingests ManaBox exports directly.

Pick it if

You want the cheapest credible way to digitize a pile of Magic cards, and you're tracking what you own rather than fulfilling orders.

Where it stops

Binders and lists are logical groupings with no relationship to physical position, so nothing in it tells you which box a card is actually in. No pull sheets, no orders, no TCGplayer listing path, and sellers routinely fix conditions by hand-editing the exported CSV.

Collectr

Multi-game (Magic, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh! and more). iOS and Android. Free tier, PRO $7.99/mo or $59.99/yr.

A portfolio tracker: collection value charted over time like a stock portfolio, price history on raw and graded cards, a trade fairness meter, grading submission tracking, and an eBay selling integration. PRO buys unlimited scanning, price history, and collection export.

Pick it if

You care about what the collection is worth over time, or you sell the occasional card on eBay, and community features matter to you.

Where it stops

Valuation and community, not fulfillment. Export is paywalled, which is the one feature a seller needs most; the selling path is eBay rather than TCGplayer; and there's no storage model, no pull sheet, and no order integration.

If you are running a store

Storefront, register, buylist counter, staff logins, sync across many channels at once. This is a real and well-served category, and it costs what a store can pay. Card Harbor is not in this band and is not trying to get into it.

TCG Sync

Web. Vendor-only £14.99/mo or £149.99/yr; Storefront Pro £1,000 setup plus 2% on singles and sealed sales; Enterprise £25,000/yr or £2,499/mo.

A trading-card-first commerce platform for card shops: storefront, POS, inventory, pricing, and marketplace sync across seven or more channels including TCGplayer (no API credentials required), Cardmarket, eBay, Cardtrader, and ManaPool. Shopify is an optional channel rather than the foundation.

Pick it if

You're a shop that needs a storefront and a register unified with marketplace inventory, especially if you sell into Cardmarket or run conventions and pop-ups.

Where it stops

Priced and shaped for a business with a counter. There is no physical shelf, box, or divider model behind the inventory.

Crystal Commerce

Web. Pricing is quote-based and not published, so treat any figure you see quoted secondhand with suspicion.

One of the long-standing webstore-plus-POS platforms for game stores, and the incumbent that newer store platforms position themselves against: TCG Sync markets itself explicitly as the alternative to legacy tools like BinderPOS and Crystal Commerce.

Pick it if

You're a store already running on it, or you're shopping the established end of store commerce platforms and want a quote to compare against the newer entrants.

Where it stops

This page has no verified current pricing or feature detail for it, so check their own site rather than taking a competitor's description (including this one) as the last word.

SortSwift, upper tiers

Web. Free Entry (2,500 items) through Entry+ $19/mo and Entry Max $49/mo, then mid-tiers $99 to $369/mo and Core Max at $499/mo, plus metered scan accuracy and hardware add-ons.

The everything platform: intake and scanning, sorting, picklists, autopricing, POS, buylist, and sync across nine marketplaces and channels including eBay, TCGplayer, Shopify, Square, CardTrader, ManaPool, and Walmart. Its headline claim is zero commission on POS and synced sales at every tier.

Pick it if

You need one platform covering POS, a storefront, and many-channel sync at once, and you want pricing that scales with catalog size rather than a flat fee.

Where it stops

Its physical location model is a single free-text Remark field with an alphabetical sort, so location is something you type and maintain rather than something the software models.

If you are one seller shipping your own orders

Past the 51 fulfilled orders that unlock TCGplayer's staged imports, a few thousand singles in boxes on a shelf, no staff, no counter. This is the band the category mostly skips: the collection apps stop before fulfillment and the store platforms start after a payroll.

Spreadsheets

Free. Whatever you already have.

The honest default, and it works for longer than most tool vendors admit. Rows are free, columns are free, and you can bend the file into any shape your operation actually has.

Pick it if

Your inventory is small enough to type, or stable enough that you rarely touch it after intake.

Where it stops

The location column dies at the first re-sort. Every row is hand-typed, so condition and printing drift from what's on the card, and nothing connects the file to what's live on the marketplace.

TCGplayer's own seller portal

Free, and free at the margin even for Pro (a 2.5% Pro Fee offset by commission dropping from 10.75% to 9.25%).

The system of record: your listings, your orders, and your money all live here. Scan & Identify has been free to Level 4 sellers since July 2026, with mass image import, bulk actions, and batch pricing into staged inventory; MassPrice handles rule-based repricing for Pro sellers; pull sheets and packing slips print from the Orders tab.

Pick it if

You want one place to work, you're happy with the pull sheet as printed, and nothing about your storage needs software to describe it.

Where it stops

It knows nothing about where your cards physically live. No documented artifact (order pull sheet, list CSV, staged import, Quicklist, Scan & Identify) carries a shelf, box, divider, or position field. The pull sheet is text-only, filters richly, and cannot be sorted into the order you would walk your boxes; TCGplayer's own published answer to the location problem is to alphabetize everything by hand behind thermal-labeled dividers.

Card Harbor

Windows desktop. Not currently available for download.

Built for exactly this band, and for one thing the rest of the category treats as a text field: physical space. Storage is modeled as shelves, boxes, and dividers, and the order you scanned a batch in is the order it lives in, so nothing needs alphabetizing. Pull sheets come out sequenced into one walk through your storage. Publishing to TCGplayer and ManaPool runs through guards that catch duplicates and bad batches before anything goes live, and repricing is previewed before it publishes. Your data is a SQLite file on your own machine, with CSV out whenever you want it.

Pick it if

You've had a 'can't find it' cancellation, or a buyout box is sitting unlisted because hand-listing it would take five weekends.

Where it stops

One seller's own physical inventory, on TCGplayer and ManaPool. No register, no webstore checkout, no buylist, no staff logins, and no sync to eBay, Shopify, or Cardmarket.

Card Harbor is not for you if

• You run a store and need a point of sale, a buylist counter, or a webstore checkout. Those are deliberate omissions, not gaps waiting to be filled; look at TCG Sync, SortSwift's upper tiers, or TCGplayer's own POS.
• You run a warehouse-scale Direct operation. At that size the constraint is sorting hardware and portal automation at a depth a small desktop app should not promise you.
• You're a brand new seller. TCGplayer gates CSV import and export until you have 51 fulfilled orders, and that import is Card Harbor's publishing surface, so the app can scan and store for you but cannot publish yet.
• You're on a Mac or Linux. Card Harbor is a Windows desktop app and other platforms are not currently planned.

The short version

Tracking a collection: a phone app at $0 to $8 a month does it, and does it well. Running a store: budget for a platform, because the register and the storefront are the expensive part and they're worth paying for. Selling your own singles on TCGplayer and ManaPool, alone, out of boxes on a shelf: that's the row Card Harbor was built for, and the reason it exists is that nothing else in the list models where your cards physically are.

Next: the task-by-task comparison against spreadsheets and the seller portal, or how listing and repricing on TCGplayer actually work.

Competitor facts checked against each product's own live pages, TCGplayer's help center, and TCGplayer's seller blog, most recently in August 2026. Products change pricing and features; if something here is out of date, corrections are welcome at john@johncwaters.com.