Questions shops ask before they sign up

What does it cost, and what happens when the free plan runs out?

Free has no subscription charge. Sign up for Free and confirm your email before signing in. The tiers are Free, Collector, Seller, Business, and Legacy. To buy a paid plan, subscribe in Settings, Account, under Billing, after you sign in. You pay at once. Paid plans are sold through Link, a Stripe service. Link is the merchant of record, and your statement shows LINK.COM*. Stripe calculates and collects sales tax. Stripe hosts the payment and billing management pages. Free holds 500 different printings. It counts printings, not copies, so forty of the same common count as one.

Free covers purchases, pulls, inventory, singles sales, personal use, Catalog, and card pages. Products and Simulator, Locations, Watchlist, Rising cards, Inbox, Import orders, and Sales Dashboard need Collector. Bucket prices need Seller, as do buying tools and the Find cards search. Expenses, mileage, tax figures, profit and loss, and Storefront need Business.

At the cap, a save that would add a printing you do not already hold is refused. Nothing you have already entered changes. You can keep adding copies of what you hold, and you can keep recording sales.

Settings, Account, under Billing shows your billing status. I can still change a tier by hand. Collector is $7 per month or $60 per year. Seller is $12 per month or $100 per year. Business is $24 per month or $200 per year. Legacy includes Business free for life and is granted by an admin, never selected by a new applicant. An admin grant does not start a paid subscription.

Do you take a cut of my sales?

No. No commission, no listing fee, no percentage, and no charge of any kind on anything you sell. Pennysleeve does not touch the money.

Do you handle payment or shipping?

No. There is no cart and no checkout for buyers and sellers. Pennysleeve can tell a buyer which shop has the card and, when that seller opts in, carry a private text conversation. It never joins the sale.

Price, payment, packing, shipping, and returns stay between you and your customer. The only payment Pennysleeve takes is a paid plan, which you buy through Link. No card sale runs through this system, so nothing here can hold your customer's money, freeze it, or claw it back.

What do I have to publish, and can I keep stock private?

Nothing you have not chosen to. Listing needs the Storefront, which needs Business, and even with it your list is off until you turn it on. What you enter stays inside your account until then.

Listing is a choice per card, not one switch over your whole shelf. Hold a card back and it comes off your list there and then. What you hold back stays private.

What you paid, what your margin is, and what you made are never part of a listing. Your cost basis is your business and nobody else's. That is the rule the listing code is written to.

Do I have to publish my address?

No. Pennysleeve never requires a street address, and it publishes nothing you type. Sign-up itself asks for no location. The mileage page takes a start and an end for a trip, and a street address there is sent to two outside map services to get the driving distance, which the privacy page describes; type coordinates, or type the miles yourself, and nothing is sent. Your storefront takes a zip, and the Find cards search takes a zip, and those two go to the same map services so the search can say how far apart they are. For your shop, a zip code is enough. Distance is the only thing the search works out from where you are, and a zip code gives it that. A buyer is shown the first five digits of it and no more.

If you have a storefront, publishing the full address will be the right call. You want people to walk in.

If you sell out of your house, publish the zip and stop there. A home address on a public page can be read by anyone, and it gets copied into search results and caches you do not control, so it is not something you can take back later. Pennysleeve does not ask for it.

Is the buyer search any use where I am?

The search is built and open. Sign in, type your zip and paste your list, and it tells you which shops have those cards, how much of your list each one covers, and how far away they are. It does not stop at a radius: a shop with most of your list shows up even if it is a long drive, and you decide whether that is worth it.

Whether it helps you depends on your area, and today the honest answer for most areas is not much. A search that turns up three shops across a whole state is worse than no search, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. It gets useful area by area, as the shops near you turn their lists on. If you sell, that is the argument for turning yours on now.

A seller may separately allow messages from search results. When they do, you can ask about stock before making the drive. The app carries text only, does not reserve a card, and does not handle payment.

Can I get my data out?

Your card lists, yes. Inventory and pulls export straight from the page you are looking at, as a plain text list you can paste anywhere, and for Magic as Moxfield CSV or ManaBox CSV. No request, no waiting, no ticket.

Sales, purchases, and expenses do not export yet. That is a real gap and I am not going to dress it up. Until I close it, ask me and I will send you your own rows.

It is your ledger. If you decide this was not worth it, take it with you.

What happens to my ledger if Pennysleeve closes?

If Pennysleeve closes, you get at least 30 days' notice. Every export Pennysleeve offers will keep working until the final day.

Which card games does Pennysleeve support?

Magic and Pokemon card catalogs and price data are supported today. Magic data comes from Scryfall and MTGJSON. Pokemon prices come from JustTCG. A game is only named here after its own catalog, prices, and finish names are in place.

Who are you?

Brad. I sell cards, I play, and I write the software. Pennysleeve is one person, and mail to brad@pennysleeve.io reaches me. The About page has the longer version.