AI card recognition
FlowSight AI + a 20,324-card catalog reads every card on intake. The printed number + set is the truth-anchor; the name is just a tiebreaker. Never image-to-image — and a human confirms every single card.
FlowTCG is not inventory software you operate. It's a complete TCG store ecosystem that runs the business for you. Scan a card and it flows down the line on its own — recognized, priced, labeled, shelved, sold in-store and online, then reconciled at close. You just feed the hopper.
One scan. Eight stations. Zero hand-offs. That's the workflow — and the workflow is the product.
Every single card is its own little project — and there are twenty thousand of them. The day disappears into busywork that no single tool was ever built to handle. So you stitch together six apps that don't talk to each other, and you become the integration.
Every card, every printing, every condition — each one a separate price that drifts with the market daily. By hand it's hopeless; half your stock ends up unpriced or wrong.
Squint at a foil number, guess the set, hunt the catalog, type it in. Hundreds of times a day. One holo throws the whole line off.
Tag it, barcode it, find a bin with room, remember where it went. Lose track once and the copy is gone in a sea of long-boxes.
One register for the floor, a different platform for online, and a third for buylists. Three places to oversell the same card.
Re-photograph, re-list, re-price, sync stock by hand. The card you sold at 9am is still live online at noon.
Count cash, match card totals, chase the $4 that's off, every night, after a six-deep buy line already wrecked you.
It's not that shop owners are disorganized.
It's that nobody ever built a system that knows what a card is.
So we stopped building a tool.
We built the whole ecosystem —
and taught it to run the shop for you.
Not another app to babysit. One connected system where every motion of a card shop is wired into the next, so the data flows everywhere it needs to — automatically. You make the judgment calls. FlowTCG handles the grind.
Intake, inventory, pricing, POS, store, buylist, customers, reports — one ecosystem on one source of truth. No more six logins, six bills, six places to fall out of sync.
Recognition, auto-pricing, wishlist matching, reconciliation. The repetitive, error-prone work runs on its own — every card still human-confirmed, because trust matters.
It's opinionated on purpose. The system enforces the workflow — guided, idiot-proof, like a card expert looking over every new hire's shoulder, all day.
→ we don't sell software — we sell the workflowClick a station to follow a single card down the line — every step a real, shipping feature doing real work. This is the assembly line your shop becomes.
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Every tile below is live in the app and stress-tested behind a real counter at Best Deal Vegas. If it doesn't survive a Saturday, it doesn't ship.
FlowSight AI + a 20,324-card catalog reads every card on intake. The printed number + set is the truth-anchor; the name is just a tiebreaker. Never image-to-image — and a human confirms every single card.
Guided intake sessions: count, set a location strategy, scan, verify. Cruise Control locks condition/printing/set for a batch so a stack of one set flies through at near-deterministic speed.
Every physical copy gets its own concurrency-safe SKU. Search as fast as you type and view stock three ways — one line per listing, a nested card tree, or every individual copy.
A traceable assembly-line auto-pricer. Live market data flows through numbered stations applying your margin, fees, condition tiers, floors and rounding — with movement caps and per-bracket Price Profiles so nothing swings wild.
Design labels in a visual ZPL builder, then print to a supported printer over your network or a Mac/CUPS queue. The barcode it prints is the same one POS scans at checkout — one source of truth, zero ambiguity.
Define your real shelves, then let the system auto-place each card into the right bin by fill-order and your rules. No card exists without a home — and every label tells you exactly where it is.
Forced, idiot-proof checkout — smart-search cart, customer in two taps, cash / card / split straight to a Helcim Smart Terminal. Open and close the drawer with automatic cash + card reconciliation and over/short variance.
A public storefront with one clean listing per card, incoming online orders that deduct stock when fulfilled, and your own branding, hours and policies. In-store pre-purchase via a daily rotating code.
Build a buy offer from scanned cards. Unified customer profiles tie POS, buy and wishlist history together — and open wishlists auto-match incoming inventory so the right person hears the moment their card lands.
A locked floor view that shows new hires only what they need, gated by PIN — with one-tap punch in/out (train whistle included). A manager PIN unlocks the full system. Money and management stay login-gated.
Score whether a card is worth grading by ROI, then watch the numbers: valuation, sell-through, top movers, sales by operator, and flags — all riding the same SKU spine.
PIN auth on the floor, username/password for management and remote access, a per-role permission matrix, plus security-camera integration — built multi-tenant from the ground up.
A focused roadmap — one solid layer at a time, never a half-built everything. Here's what's on the line next.
The whole platform on hosted Postgres + FastAPI — one tenant per shop, isolated data. Run a chain, a franchise, or one great single store on the same spine.
platformOne end-to-end integration nailed first — eBay, then CardTrader and TCGplayer — with oversell-prevention so a card can't sell in two places at once.
channelsRun cards and electronics on one system — a department selector that scopes inventory, POS and reports. Half the shop is TVs and Apple; both ride the same spine.
retailRip through thousands of bulk cards fast, stopping only on the keepers via configurable price/rarity triggers. Sweep the worthless pile, catch the gold.
intakeThe moment a wishlisted card lands, the customer hears about it — plus marketing-lead notifications and password-reset emails wired through.
commsRelocate stock to a convention as a temporary location — auto-delist online so you never sell what's physically on the table, then relist what comes home.
opsBuy graded slabs by reading the cert number and verifying it against the grader's database — number, not picture, same as card recognition.
buyingA Discord-style space for FlowTCG shop owners across every tenant — swap tips, vote on features, and build the platform with us, not at you.
networkA stripped-down tier for small collectors and vendors under ~1,000 cards. No scanner, no label printer — just your phone and the extension link. Built around eBay, with an optional own-website + custom marketplace add-on to host your inventory. Grow into the full platform when you're ready.
tierA personal collection tracker for what you own, not just what you sell — landing once we wire a sealed-product catalog API.
collectorsBeyond Pokémon: more TCG games, sports cards, and comics — full catalogs, rolling out over time.
catalogI run a card shop. I also fix Apple devices and TVs. I tried every POS out there, and most of them are built for a boutique candy store trying to look like a tech company. None of them know what a card is. None of them know what a shop feels like at 4pm on a Saturday when the buy line is six deep and the scanner just choked on a holographic foil.
"I'm not building inventory software. I'm building the thing I wish existed every single day I'm behind the counter."
FlowTCG is built shop-first, AI-second. The AI is what makes it fast. The workflow is what makes it sane. You don't have to be a tech wizard — if you can plug in a scanner and tap a screen, you can run a shop on FlowTCG. Every feature gets stress-tested at my counter before it ships. If it doesn't survive a real Saturday, it doesn't make the platform.
We're opening beta shop by shop in Q3 2026. Drop your email — no spam, just the call when it's your turn, with early-access pricing locked in for life.