Getting Started for Sellers

Overview

If you sell sports cards on eBay and want to stop copy-pasting listings, manually tracking inventory in spreadsheets, and guessing when to sell — this guide is for you.

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Step 1: Create Your Account

1. Go to app.rocketvault.io and sign up with an access code for full access
2. Sign up with email/password or Continue with Google
3. Verify your email if you signed up with a password
4. All paid plans include a 7-day free trial — no credit card required
5. When you're ready, pick the Seller plan ($39/mo) for full eBay integration

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Step 2: Connect eBay

Before you can publish listings, connect your eBay seller account:

1. Go to Settings → Integrations
2. Click Connect eBay Account
3. Sign in to eBay and authorize RocketVault (secure OAuth — we never see your password)
4. Configure your default listing policies (shipping, payment, returns)

The eBay connection status is shown at the bottom of the sidebar (SYNC · eBay) and in a red banner on the Dashboard if it ever drops. See the full Listing to eBay guide for details.

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Step 3: Build Your Inventory

Upload Cards

1. Click Inventory → Upload Cards in the sidebar
2. Desktop: drag a folder of front/back images or a ZIP file into the drop zone — the page is a three-pane Terminal layout (drop zone + recent batches on the left, batch progress and pipeline in the middle, live event log on the right)
3. Mobile: tap the center camera button on the bottom nav, then choose Multi-Card Scan, Single Card, or Files
4. RocketAI identifies and prices every card automatically

Batch limits scale with your plan:

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Step 4: Price Your Inventory

Every card gets automatic multi-source pricing:

• RocketVault Pricing — millions of cards with real market values
• eBay market data — recent sales as a backup
• Confidence scores — know how reliable each price is

Bulk Reprice and Refresh Stale

Keep prices current without staring at every card:

• Refresh Pricing — go to Inventory → Cards, select rows, and click Refresh Pricing in the bulk action toolbar pinned at the top of the page.
• Refresh Stale — the top action row on Cards has a one-click Refresh Stale button that re-prices any active listing with stale market data.
• Consolidate Duplicates — sitting next to Refresh Stale, this button merges duplicates that the AI flagged during processing.

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Step 5: List on eBay

Tip: Publishing always starts from Inventory → Cards. The actions queue on the Dashboard deep-links straight to ?tab=ready so you can jump there in one click.

Single Listings

1. Open a card's detail page
2. Click List on eBay
3. RocketAI generates an optimized title and description
4. Review, adjust price, and publish

The Card Detail page redesign (April 2026) added a sticky bottom CTA on mobile so the List on eBay / Save Draft action is always reachable, even on long pages.

Bulk Publishing

1. Go to Inventory → Cards
2. Switch to the Available tab and use the Ready filter chip (or click the READY action queue tile on the Dashboard)
3. Select cards you want to publish
4. Click Publish to eBay in the bulk action toolbar
5. Review pricing, shipping, and policies, then confirm

The Free shipping toggle and business policy fields on the publish dialog were rebuilt in April 2026 — Free shipping no longer gets stuck and a business policy is no longer required to publish.

Save as Draft

Not ready to go live? In the publish dialog, click Save as Draft to store the listing — pricing, auction settings, best-offer thresholds, and promoted-ads config are all preserved. Review later from the Drafts tab on Cards, then hit Publish on the row when you're ready. One click — the saved config replays automatically.

Lot Listings

Bundle lower-value cards for faster sales:

1. Go to Inventory → Lots and click New Lot (or use AI Lot Generator)
2. Add cards to the lot
3. Generate an eBay listing for the lot
4. Publish

See the Lot Creation guide for details on AI lot suggestions and lot management.

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Step 6: Track Your Business

Dashboard P&L

Your Dashboard shows the full business picture:

• Portfolio Value with unique cards count
• Unrealized P&L with cost-basis coverage
• Listed (Active) with combined GMV
• Sold · 30D with sales count and trend

Actions Queue

The actions queue at the top of the Dashboard is the single source of "what to do next":

• Attention — cards flagged for verification
• Ready — priced and eligible to publish
• Sell Now — high-priority sell signals
• Deals — hot deals from Deal Finder
• Price Drops — active listings that have dropped below cost basis (deep-links to the Active tab to reprice)

Risk Reports

Seller plan and above include risk reports on the Dashboard with concentration, market, and liquidity callouts.

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Step 7: Stay Synced

RocketVault keeps your eBay listings in sync:

• Status sync — when cards sell on eBay, RocketVault updates automatically
• Refresh activity card on the Dashboard tracks recent listing refreshes
• End/Relist — manage listing lifecycle from RocketVault's Active tab

See Refresh Stale Listings for the full repricing workflow.

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Recommended Plan

For most sellers, the Seller plan ($39/mo) covers everything:

• 5,000 cards
• eBay publish (single + bulk)
• eBay status sync
• Lot management with AI suggestions
• Risk reports
• Unlimited collections, tags, and bulk operations
• 7-day free trial — no credit card required

Upgrade to Pro ($99/mo) if you need 25,000-card capacity, custom listing templates, or priority support.