Frequently asked questions
Everything about tracking your sports card collection automatically.
Is my collection safe, and can I get it back out?
Yes to both. Every collection can be exported to a spreadsheet at any time, and deleted in full whenever you want — it's your data and there's no lock-in. Backups run daily. If something does go wrong, tell us through the feedback link and you'll get a real answer from a person.
What is My Card Inventory?
My Card Inventory is a web app that turns your card receipts into a tracked collection. You forward a purchase or sale email to a private address we give you, and it becomes an inventory entry — with cost basis and profit and loss — across eBay, Fanatics Collect, CollX and other marketplaces.
How does it work?
When you sign up we give you a private forwarding address. Forward an order confirmation to it and we read the email, pull out each card and what it cost, and put the result in your import queue to approve. If you'd rather not forward things by hand, Gmail can auto-forward matching emails to that address for you — we show you how to set the filter up. You can also add cards by hand or import a spreadsheet.
Do you need access to my email account?
No. We never ask for your email password and we have no access to your mailbox — there is nothing to install and no permissions to grant. The only messages we can see are the ones you choose to forward. If you set up auto-forwarding, that rule lives in your own email account and you can change or remove it at any time without involving us.
Which marketplaces does it support?
We confirm a marketplace only after we've read real emails from it. eBay, Fanatics Collect, COMC and CollX are confirmed today, and we're adding more all the time — the Supported platforms page always shows the current list and how much each one's emails actually carry. Because it reads the receipt rather than plugging into a marketplace, others often work too. If yours doesn't, forward us one of its emails and we'll build support for it.
Is my data private?
Each user's data is isolated at the database level, and we store the minimum necessary — the structured purchase details, not your full email content. We never log full email bodies and never share the content of your email with other users or use it to train anything. Your forwarding address is private to you, and you can rotate it at any time, which switches the old one off immediately.
Does it cost anything?
There's a free plan and a paid one. Free covers your collection itself — unlimited cards, photos, groups, storage locations, sale logging and the portfolio view — entered by hand or imported from a spreadsheet, and it stays yours for as long as you want it. Reading your receipts automatically is the paid part, because every email costs us to process. Paid monthly plans start with a 14-day free trial — 30 days if a friend invited you, and they earn a free month of their own once you've been paying for a while.
Can I add cards manually?
Yes. Alongside automatic import you can add cards by hand, upload photos, edit any details, group cards with tags, and record notes and storage locations.
How is it different from a spreadsheet?
A spreadsheet needs you to type in every card, price, and sale by hand. My Card Inventory reads those out of your receipts, splits shipping and fees across the cards in an order so each one carries its real cost, and keeps profit and loss up to date as you buy and sell.
Can it track what I sold and my profit?
Yes. Forward a 'you sold it' or payout email and it matches the card against what you own, records the sale price and fees, and moves it into realized profit. An order with several cards in it is recorded as one sale rather than several. If it isn't sure which card you meant, it asks you instead of guessing.
Can I list cards on eBay from here?
Yes, on paid plans. Connect your eBay account once and any card in your inventory can become an eBay listing: it builds the title, item specifics, photos and description from what it already knows about the card, asks eBay what else that category requires, and shows you the whole listing before anything goes live. You set the price — we never suggest one — and pick which of your shipping policies to use. Nothing is published until you press publish.
What do I need on eBay before I can list?
eBay requires a payment policy, a shipping policy, a return policy and a ship-from location before it will publish anything, and business policies have to be switched on for your account. The app checks all of that when you connect and tells you exactly what's missing with a link to fix it, rather than letting you find out when a listing is rejected. It's a one-time setup.
What can the app do with my eBay account?
Only what's needed to list: create and publish listings you've reviewed, and read whether your account has the policies eBay requires. It never sees your eBay password, never changes your account settings, and never sees what you paid for a card. You can disconnect inside the app, or revoke access from eBay's own third-party app settings, at any time.
Can I use it with more than one email account?
Forwarding from several accounts — a personal address and a selling address, say — is part of the top plan. The plan below it reads receipts from one account. If you use Gmail's auto-forwarding, each account needs its own filter, and Gmail sends a confirmation for each one which we surface for you inside the app.
Does it know where my cards physically are?
Yes. You can describe your bins, boxes and binders, put each card in one, and search for where a card lives when it's time to ship it. It's built for how collections actually get stored, so you can be as granular or as loose as you like.
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