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CardUploader and Stowdesk

CardUploader scans, prices and lists. Stowdesk keeps the half after — what each item cost, where it physically is, and what the sale earned once eBay had taken its cut. Two halves of one job.

What Stowdesk does not do

It does not scan or list, and it never changes a listing, a price or your stock. That is a boundary rather than a gap in a roadmap. A ledger that creates listings has to be trusted with live inventory, and this one is deliberately not: nothing in it can change a price, end a listing or touch anything you have on sale.

It writes one thing to a marketplace, and only one: the tracking number, for a parcel you posted yourself rather than with an eBay label. That takes nothing away from your listing tool, which is the whole test a write has to pass here.

The SKU is the join

Whatever your listing tool assigned as the SKU is the string both halves use. The export carries it in; a sale arriving from eBay carries the same string; the sale finds the item and its cost with nothing matched by hand.

Worth knowing before you lean on it: that numbering is load-bearing. Change how the tool numbers things and the two halves stop finding each other until the new numbers are imported.

If you let CardUploader manage your eBay inventory, a listing carries one catalog code standing for a product and condition rather than naming the copy it holds. The sale names the group, Stowdesk picks a copy and records on the sale that it did the picking. Keeping your own SKU under managed inventory walks through the switch.

What comes across

The inventory export imports directly: the name, the set and number, the condition, the SKU, the price it is listed at, and the identifiers that let a photo be found again later.

One row is one item, on purpose. A row with a quantity above one is listed back to you rather than imported as several, because a shelf address and a per-item margin both need one physical thing to point at.

One order of operations worth knowing

A CardUploader export has one price column. It holds the guide's price when a batch is scanned and your asking price once the batch has been priced — the same column, overwritten. So export twice if you want Stowdesk to hold both figures: once before you price, once after.

Import only the priced export and every margin figure is your own asking price compared against itself. Stowdesk works that out and says so on the page rather than answering quietly with a number that means nothing.

A collection somebody has offered you

CardUploader's ungraded pricing tool exports what a pile is worth and what it is being offered for. Stowdesk reads that file too, and turns it into a proposal: what the collection would return at your own asking prices, after every sale's fee and postage label, and a sheet you can print and count the pile against before any money moves. Nothing is recorded until you decide.

What it costs to find out

Nothing. The free plan takes no payment details and does not expire, and a sample shelf loads in one press, so there is a filled ledger to read before you export anything of your own.

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If you do not have CardUploader yet

CardUploader is the tool the scanning half of this is built against.