Run your booth like a pro.
Without doing the math.
VendBuddy is the all-in-one app for card show vendors — on iPhone, Android, and the web. Snap a photo to identify any card and pull a fresh market price in two seconds, print barcode labels right from your phone, and walk away from every show knowing exactly what you made.
Identify any card
Snap a photo with your phone. VendBuddy pins down the exact card and pulls a fresh market price — in under two seconds.
Print labels in one tap
Send thermal barcode labels to your printer over Bluetooth — from your phone or laptop. No drivers, no setup hassle.
Know your real profit
Cost basis, table fees, and net margin tracked per show, per game. P&L the next morning.
A show, end to end
The same job, made simple.
Catch drifted prices
Markets move. VendBuddy flags every card whose market price has shifted more than 10% from your sticker, and gives you a swipe deck to re-price the lot in minutes. No more selling a $40 card for $8.
Price drift
14 cards drifted >10%
Pikachu V (Alt Art)
Vivid Voltage · #170
SKU: a92f4c1d
Your sticker
$42.00
New price
$49.50
Print barcode labels in bulk
Pick a batch, hit print. VendBuddy talks to your thermal label printer over Bluetooth — from your phone or your laptop. Every sticker carries the card name, your asking price, the condition, and a scannable barcode that powers the rest of the workflow.
$42.00
Blue-Eyes White Dragon – PSA 9
LOB · #001
$215.00
Lightning Bolt – LP
Alpha · #161
$28.50
Charizard ex – NM
Obsidian Flames · #006
2.25″ × 0.5″ thermal label
Build deals at scanner speed
Scan a sticker and the card snaps into your deal — cost basis, market price, sell price already populated. Hold up a card a customer brought in, snap a photo with your phone, and our AI identifies it and drops in a fresh market price. Settlement math updates as you go.
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
scanned · 0.4s
SKU 4f8a2c1e
See what you actually made
Every deal you closed flows into your P&L. Filter by event, by game, by period. See net profit after the table fee. Spot the shows worth driving to and the games carrying your bottom line.
Dallas Card Show
Nov 15 – 17, 2024
Gross
$3,240
Cost
$1,680
Fees
$400
Net
$1,160
Revenue by day
35.8% margin
Sound familiar?
Three things steal your weekend.
VendBuddy fixes all three on one screen.
You re-key everything by hand
Open the scanner app, search the card, find the right printing, copy the price, switch to the calculator, write the offer on a sticker. Forty cards is an hour you don’t have.
You’re guessing on margin
Without cost basis and a fresh market price side by side, every offer is a vibe. Vibes don’t pay table fees.
You leave not knowing if it was worth it
The cash drawer goes up, expenses don’t get tracked, and Sunday’s drive home is a long maybe.
The math
How much weekend do you get back?
The old way
~80 sec / card
53 min
With VendBuddy
~8 sec / card
5 min
You get back
48 min every show
Time you can spend selling instead of typing.
Timings from our own measurements. Your mileage will vary — most vendors land faster once they get the workflow down.
Everything in the box
Every feature, no upsells.
AI Card Scanner
Snap a card and vision AI nails the exact printing — then drops in a fresh market price right alongside it.
Barcode lookup
Scan any VendBuddy sticker and the card pulls into a deal in one motion.
Auto price refresh
PriceCharting + TCGPlayer blend, refreshed in the background. Source is tracked per card.
Price drift alerts
We flag every card whose market moved more than 10%, with a swipe deck to re-price the lot.
Bluetooth label printing
Send labels to your thermal printer over Bluetooth — from iPhone, Android, or the web. No drivers, no cable, no extra software.
Graded card pricing
PSA, BGS, CGC, SGC across grades 7 through 10 — auto-priced by tier.
Multi-language catalog
English and Japanese Pokémon supported across catalog, search, and labels.
Sealed product inventory
Booster boxes, ETBs, bundles tracked with unit economics and bulk creation.
Offline-safe deal builder
Build deals when the venue Wi-Fi quits. Atomic sync when it comes back.
Public vendor profile
A /v/your-handle storefront. Collectors follow you and get pinged when you stock their wishlist.
Head to head
Nothing else does this for a card show booth.
| Capability | VendBuddy | Spreadsheet | Generic POS | Pen + paper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identify a card from a photo | ||||
| Auto-refresh market prices | ||||
| Print barcode labels | Maybe | |||
| Detect price drift | ||||
| Event-level P&L | Manual | |||
| Graded card tier pricing | ||||
| Offline-safe | Partial | |||
| Built for card shows |
Identify a card from a photo
Auto-refresh market prices
Print barcode labels
Detect price drift
Event-level P&L
Graded card tier pricing
Offline-safe
Built for card shows
Pricing
Try it free. Pay when you’re sold.
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Your next show is in a couple weeks. Be ready.
Set up your inventory tonight, print labels tomorrow, walk in knowing your numbers.
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