SOFTWARE FOR THE BUY COUNTER.

TopLoader is software for your buy counter. It works out the offer on every card using your rates, and keeps track of what you paid and who you bought it from. I built it while working a buy counter myself.

CARD STORAGE BOXBUY DESK EDITION
TOPLOADER
CONTENTS
Every buy your shop makes
PRICED BY
Your own cash and credit percentages
FILED BY
Date, customer, and who ran the deal
RUNS ON
The counter computer, a tablet, or your phone
BUY DESK SOFTWARE · MADE BEHIND A REAL COUNTER ·GUARANTEEDNO HEAD MATHFOR CARD SHOPS
THIS SIDE UP
KEEP RECEIPTS

Pricing a buy

Someone walks in with a binder. Whoever is working types in what each card sells for, and TopLoader gives them the cash and trade offer using the percentages you picked. Cheap bulk and big cards can each get their own rate.

Before this we had a spreadsheet on one screen, prices on another, and a lot of math in somebody’s head. Two of us could quote the same card two different ways.

CASH $185.91CREDIT $201.00

Same math the real thing does. The cash side drops by exactly the share they took in credit.

  • DEAL 0417 · SAMPLE60% CASH / 70% CREDIT
  • Charizard ex 199/165 SIRNM · goes for $112.00$67.20$78.40
  • Umbreon VMAX 215/203 Alt ArtLP · goes for $465.00$279.00$325.50
  • 2019 Prizm football, 40 base cardsMixed · goes for $20.00$12.00$14.00
  • TOTAL OFFER$358.20 cash or $417.90 credit

After the deal

When you finalize a deal, those cards show up in your inventory with what you paid for them. Nobody types them in twice.

When it’s time to get them into your register, export a file your POS already knows how to read. You can export just what’s new since the last time, so you’re not sorting through stuff you already loaded.

BINDERPOSSQUARESHOPIFYLIGHTSPEEDCLOVERPLAIN CSV

The people who keep coming back

Anyone who sells to you can have a profile with their phone or email, a few notes, and every deal they’ve done with you.

So when somebody says “you gave me more last time,” you can pull it up and actually check. Receipts can go straight to their email, too.

Mike, Thursday guySAMPLE
Deals with us
14
Last came in
Oct 28
Usually takes
Half credit
Note
Collects vintage Pokemon

Letting other people run the counter

Employees can build deals. Managers and admins are the ones who finalize, void or reopen them, and each of those gets logged with a name and a time.

It also catches the mistakes that cost money on a busy Saturday. The ones on the sign are what it checks for before a deal can go through.

BEFORE YOU FINALIZE

  • Nobody’s name on the deal
  • A card entered at $0
  • The same card in there twice
  • Paying out more than 10% over your normal rate