You know the cards.
Now own the numbers.
You already know how to buy and sell. VendBuddy gives you what the guesswork never could — real margins, tracked costs, and proof that every show was worth the drive.
Built for vendors across 5 card games
Sports cards coming soon
Sound familiar?
You're still piecing it together one card at a time.
A customer walks up with a stack of 40 cards. For every single one, you open an app to look it up, switch to a calculator to figure your offer, then handwrite a price on a sticker. Repeat 40 times. The line behind them is growing.
Look it up
Open an app. Search the card. Find the right set. Hope the price is current. You’re trusting a number you glanced at once — and there’s no way to check later.
~45 sec per cardDo the math
Punch it into a calculator. Multiply by your percentage. Round it. One wrong digit and you’ve offered $80 instead of $8 — and you won’t realize until the card’s gone.
~15 sec per cardWrite it down
Handwrite a price on a sticker. If it falls off, the card’s a mystery. No cost basis, no SKU, no record of what you paid or what you should sell it for.
~20 sec per cardA 40-card stack takes 0 minutes this way.
And at the end of the show, you have no idea what your real margin was. Just a rough feeling of whether it was a “good day” or not.
The difference
Same stack. Completely different outcome.
What you're left with
What you gain
Workflow
From card to cash in minutes
Scan
Point your camera at the card
Price
AI fetches market price instantly
Label
Print barcode label in one tap
Sell
Scan barcode to complete the sale
Features
Everything you need on show day
Identify any card in seconds
AI Card Scanner
Point your phone camera at any trading card and VendBuddy's vision AI handles the rest. It identifies the game, card name, set, and card number in under two seconds — no more squinting at tiny set symbols or searching databases by hand. Works with raw singles, graded slabs, and foil variants across every supported game.
- Supports all 5 card games out of the box
- Auto-fills search results for instant pricing lookup
- Rolling-average stability detection handles hand shake
Charizard ex
Obsidian Flames · #006
$28.50
Buy, sell, and trade with confidence
Deal Management
Build deals on the spot with walk-up customers. Scan or search to add cards, and VendBuddy calculates fair offers using real market data. Set your own margins for raw and graded cards so every deal is profitable from the start. Full deal history means you never lose track of what you bought, from whom, or for how much.
- Configurable offer percentages for raw vs. graded
- Automatic market-price lookups for every card
- Complete deal history with per-card tracking
Deal #127
3 cards · Walk-in customer
Charizard ex
Obsidian Flames
$28.50
Lightning Bolt
Alpha
$215.00
Blue-Eyes White Dragon
LOB
$42.00
Know your stock at a glance
Inventory Tracking
Your full inventory in one place — every card with its game, condition, grade, cost basis, and current market price. Search by name, filter by game or condition, and sort by value to find anything in seconds. Graded cards display their grade and grading company prominently so you always know exactly what's in your case.
- Filter by game, condition, graded vs. raw
- Cost basis tracking for every single card
- Card detail modals with edit and reprint options
Professional labels in one tap
Label Printing
Every card gets a unique 8-character SKU and a CODE128 barcode printed on thermal labels. Labels include the card name, asking price, condition, and a scannable barcode — ready for your display case or binder. Scan a label with any USB barcode scanner to instantly look up a card or complete a sale at the register.
- CODE128 barcodes on 2.25" x 0.5" thermal labels
- Unique 8-character SKU for every inventory item
- Scan to sell or scan to look up — one workflow
Charizard ex - Obsidian Flames
$28.50
Near MintSKU: 4f8a2c1e
VendBuddy
See the full picture
Performance Analytics
Track every dimension of your business from one page. Revenue trends, profit margins, inventory health, deal flow, and game-level breakdowns — all filterable by time period. Compare events side by side with ROI calculations that factor in table fees, and identify your top-performing cards and most profitable games at a glance.
- KPI dashboard with period-over-period trends
- Per-event profit tracking with ROI and margins
- Game and card-level performance breakdowns
Dallas Card Show
Nov 15 – 17, 2024
Gross
$3,240
Cost
$1,680
Fees
$400
Net
$1,160
Revenue by day
35.8% margin
Stay competitive without the guesswork
Market Pricing
Pull real-time prices from TCGPlayer, Scryfall, TCGdex, and more — across every supported card game. Refresh your entire inventory in one click to make sure your prices stay competitive on the show floor. Price sources are tracked per card so you always know where a number came from and when it was last updated.
- Aggregated pricing across multiple data sources
- One-click batch refresh for your full inventory
- Price source and timestamp tracked per card
248 cards · 3 sources
Charizard ex
$28.50
+$1.25
Lightning Bolt
$215.00
-$3.00
Blue-Eyes White Dragon
$42.00
+$0.50
Luffy Leader
$18.75
Pricing
Simple, transparent pricing
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