Getting Started for Collectors

Overview

If you collect sports cards and want to know what your collection is worth, stay organized, and track market trends — this guide is for you. No eBay selling required.

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Step 1: Create Your Account

1. Go to app.rocketvault.io and sign up — every currently supported feature is included at $0, with no credit card required
2. Sign up with email/password or Continue with Google
3. Verify your email if you signed up with a password
4. Add up to 100,000 active cards with no trial cutoff or paid feature tier

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Step 2: Upload Your Cards

The fastest way to digitize your collection:

1. Click Vault → Upload in the sidebar (or tap the center Add Cards button on mobile)
2. Single Card — Capture front and back from your phone camera
3. Multi-Card Scan — Batch-capture up to 50 cards (100 photos) in one mobile session, then auto-pair
4. Files — Pick from your photo gallery, or drag front-and-back image files on desktop. The RocketVault web app includes unlimited ZIP batches with a 2 GB ZIP cap.
5. RocketAI identifies each card automatically — player, set, year, card number, parallel, and more

For a multi-card or ZIP batch, RocketVault shows photo-quality findings and gives you a front/back pairing check before you finish review. Retake or confirm only the scans it flags, then complete the batch to add its approved and resolved cards to your inventory.

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Step 3: Review and Organize

After upload, cards land on the Available tab inside Vault → All Cards. Some may carry an orange attention chip if the AI wasn't 100% confident:

1. Filter to Needs Attention on the Available tab to see flagged cards
2. Click the chip on a row to fix the flagged fields in Quick Edit
3. Saving auto-promotes the card to Ready when the last review reason resolves

For long queues, click Focus Review on the Available tab to launch the keyboard-driven workspace (A approve, S skip, F flip, ← → navigate, Esc close). The active filter chip carries through, so a category-scoped chip plus Focus Review = a tight queue of just one type of issue.

Organize with Collections

Create collections to group your cards:

• "My PC" (personal collection)
• "2024 Topps Chrome"
• "Yankees"
• "Graded Cards"

See Collections & Wishlist for details.

Tag Your Cards

Use tags for flexible categorization:

• Source: "Card Show March 2026", "Hobby Box"
• Status: "Send to Grade", "Trade Bait"

Tags and collections are unlimited for every account.

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Step 4: Know What Your Cards Are Worth

Every card gets automatic pricing from RocketVault Pricing:

• Market Price — current estimated value
• Price Source — where the price came from (RocketVault Pricing, eBay comps, or rules)
• Confidence Score — how reliable the price estimate is

Multi-Source Pricing

Every account gets unlimited multi-source pricing — prices pull from RocketVault Pricing first, then eBay market data, with confidence scores so you know how reliable each price is.

Track Your Portfolio Value

The Dashboard shows your total collection value, top cards, value distribution by sport, trends over time, P&L tracking, insights, and the inventory pipeline.

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Step 5: Watch the Market

Use your wishlist and RocketVault Pricing to track cards you may want to buy.

Wishlist

Track specific cards in Vault → Wishlist. Each row deep-links to live eBay searches so you can grab one when the price is right.

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Included collector access

Every account includes up to 100,000 active cards, unlimited AI identification, the full Dashboard, CSV export, unlimited collections and tags, grading analysis, wishlist tools, and seller workflows. There is no trial deadline or upgrade step.