Getting Started for Sellers

Overview

If you sell sports cards on eBay, through RocketVault, or across both 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 — the complete currently supported toolkit 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. Explore RocketVault Marketplace, eBay publishing, bulk listing, lot building, grading, reports, and automations without a trial cutoff

If you came from the Marketplace seller signup campaign, RocketVault opens Upload after signup so you can add your first card immediately. Choose the Seller workspace when prompted. Other new accounts start in the Command Center, where a Get set up to sell checklist tracks your progress. Upload and review your cards, then save private Marketplace drafts before seller setup. When ready to publish, verify payouts and confirm your ship-from address in one guided flow. Shipping customization is optional. Connect eBay only if you want to publish there. Each completed checklist step ticks itself off automatically.

Want help with the first batch? Book a free 20-minute founder onboarding. Caden will help connect eBay, review the first identifications, and get the first listing ready to publish.

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Step 2: Set Up Where You Sell When Ready to Publish

You can skip this step while uploading cards or preparing private drafts. Before publishing on RocketVault Marketplace, complete two required steps: verify payouts and confirm your ship-from address. RocketVault starts Stripe verification with your email and a collectible-card profile already filled in. Individual sellers add their legal identity, address, and bank account—not a website or business name. Stripe may still request date of birth, tax details, or ID when required. When you return, save one ship-from address. Shipping customization is optional; you can use RocketVault's defaults and adjust who pays, delivery choice, or packaging later. Eligible flexible raw-card mail uses the RocketVault Card Envelope: $0.82 at 1 oz, $1.11 at 2 oz, or $1.40 at 3 oz. Rigid and graded packages use tracked parcel shipping. RocketVault returns to the listing and reuses those defaults until you change them.

If you also want to publish to eBay:

1. Go to Settings → Connections
2. Click Connect eBay Account
3. Sign in to eBay and allow RocketVault to manage listings. We never see your eBay password.
4. Optionally configure default listing policies. If they are missing, RocketVault asks for one-time consent and creates reusable shipping, payment, and return policies during your first publish.

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. An eBay account is not required to sell only through RocketVault Marketplace. See the full Listing to eBay guide for details.

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Step 3: Build Your Inventory

Upload Cards

1. Click Vault → Upload in the sidebar
2. Desktop web app: drag front/back image files or a ZIP into the drop zone. Recent batches stay on the left, progress appears in the middle, and live updates appear on the right. ZIP upload is included for every account.
3. Mobile inventory capture: tap the center Add Cards button for paired front/back Multi-Card Scan or files. Use this for cards you already own.
4. Mobile acquisition: open More → Vault → Scan for a Deal for identity, ownership, pricing, max offer, and one-tap show-floor decisions
5. RocketAI identifies and prices every card automatically

Before you complete a multi-card or ZIP batch, review photo-quality findings and run the front/back pairing check. Retake or confirm just the affected scans; approved and resolved cards enter Available inventory together when you complete the batch, keeping unresolved exceptions out of the publish flow.

Every account receives the same batch capacity:

Import from eBay

If you already have active eBay listings, connect eBay and import them:

1. Go to Vault → All Cards in the sidebar
2. Open the Active tab
3. Click Import from eBay
4. Your existing listings stream into RocketVault with all details synced

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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 Vault → All Cards, select rows, and click Refresh Pricing in the bulk action toolbar pinned at the top of the page.
• Refresh stale listings — the Refresh action (on the Refresh tab, the bulk toolbar, or a listing's detail banner) opens one dialog where you pick soft or hard refresh, which attributes to update, and the price drop for the run. See Refresh Stale Listings.
• Consolidate Duplicates — in the same top action row, this button merges duplicates that the AI flagged during processing.

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Step 5: List on the RocketVault Marketplace

Anyone can browse RocketVault Marketplace without an account. The storefront shows whether checkout is available. If Marketplace selling is available in your account, you can start listing right away:

1. Select a card and start listing. Save a private draft before payout or shipping setup. When you are ready to publish, verify payouts and confirm your ship-from address in the guided flow. Shipping customization is optional, and RocketVault resumes the listing automatically.
2. Open Vault → All Cards. Select any number of available cards—or choose All for the current filters—and then choose List cards. RocketVault marks cards that are sold, reserved, inbound, or already listed and explains what needs attention. Choose a bulk workflow or review cards one at a time. For one card, open Card Detail and choose List card. Or open Marketplace → Scan to sell for a new card.
3. Choose RocketVault Marketplace, eBay, or both. For a RocketVault-only batch, choose Bulk List to publish eligible cards with their saved prices and your saved payer, delivery setup, and package, or choose individual review. A missing saved term no longer disables the batch choice; the batch lists the rest and keeps affected cards selected for attention. eBay options require a connected eBay account.
4. Review the prefilled identity, grade or raw condition, and images. RocketVault assumes the saved images show the exact physical card, so there is no redundant confirmation checkbox; replace an image if needed.
5. Confirm the saved asking price and change it only if you want to. RocketVault shows recent sales separately from active listings and clearly shows the Marketplace fee and You receive amount. Decide whether to accept offers and, if you want, set the lowest offer you will consider. eBay Best Offer can accept offers automatically; RocketVault Marketplace will add that option after checkout opens.
6. Start with your saved payer, Best available, Always tracked, or Free tracked shipping choice and card package. Change any of them for this listing, or make the choices your new defaults. Best available uses economical postage only when the fully packed card qualifies; otherwise it uses tracked shipping. Choose eBay fulfillment, payment, and return policies separately only if you selected eBay.
7. Review the marketplace fee, estimated shipping impact, and You receive amount before publishing. For a RocketVault-only batch, saved terms can publish selected cards at once; individual review remains available whenever you need it.
8. Manage listings, offers, orders, balance, and payouts from Selling. Order rows show the card, buyer name, and city/state. Cards from the same seller share one package and label when they fit safely. Both people follow payment, shipping, delivery, and protection updates on the same order timeline.

To change several RocketVault listings at once, select them on Selling and choose Edit selected. You can change prices, offer settings, who pays for shipping, delivery choice, package, or condition notes. Choose Best available again to refresh older listings that still use tracked parcel shipping even though they now qualify for Card Envelope postage. RocketVault lets you review your shared choices before saving them.

Draft lots use the same destination choice. eBay keeps the cards together as one lot. Choosing RocketVault Marketplace or both opens each card for individual review because RocketVault Marketplace does not yet publish a grouped multi-card lot.

When you choose both destinations, RocketVault uses the same fixed price and offer choices on eBay. A sale in either place starts removing the other listing. If that cannot finish right away, RocketVault keeps the card unavailable and shows that it needs attention rather than putting it back up for sale.

See Seller Marketplace for the end-to-end workflow and Marketplace Fees & Net Calculation for fee and proceeds details.

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Step 6: List on eBay

Tip: Listing starts from Vault → All Cards or Card Detail. The ready-card action on the Dashboard deep-links to ?tab=ready&sell=marketplace, where selecting a card opens the same RocketVault Marketplace, eBay, or both chooser.

Single Listings

1. Open a card's detail page
2. Choose List card, then select eBay in the destination chooser. If Seller Marketplace is not enabled for the account, the direct Card Detail action remains Publish Listing.
3. RocketAI generates an optimized title and description
4. Review, adjust price, and publish from the eBay review dialog

The Card Detail page keeps the listing action in a sticky bottom CTA on mobile. It reads List card for Seller Marketplace-enabled accounts and Publish Listing otherwise, so the correct entry action stays reachable even on long pages.

Bulk Publishing

1. Go to Vault → All 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. Choose List cards, then select eBay. If Seller Marketplace is not enabled for the account, the toolbar action remains Publish to eBay.
5. Review pricing, shipping, and policies in the eBay bulk publisher, then confirm

The first time RocketVault needs to create eBay policies, it explains the account change and asks you to approve Enable eBay Business Policies. After approval, RocketVault creates any missing policies and automatically retries the publish you started. Existing compatible policies are reused.

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 All Cards, then hit Publish on the row when you're ready. One click — the saved config replays automatically, and you get the same live progress reporting as a bulk publish.

Lot Listings

Bundle lower-value cards for faster sales:

1. Go to Vault → Lots and click New Lot (or use AI Lot Generator)
2. Add cards to the lot
3. Choose Publish listing, then select eBay to keep the grouped-lot publisher
4. Review the generated eBay listing and publish

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

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Step 7: 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
• Price Drops — active listings that have dropped below cost basis (deep-links to the Active tab to reprice)

Risk Reports

Every account includes risk reports on the Dashboard with concentration, market, and liquidity callouts.

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Step 8: Stay Synced

RocketVault keeps your eBay listings in sync:

• Status sync — when cards sell on eBay, RocketVault updates automatically
• Cross-market inventory safety — when you list to both, a sale starts removing the other listing; anything that cannot finish right away stays visible for review
• 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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Included seller access

Every account includes:

• Up to 100,000 active cards
• eBay publish, import, and status sync
• Lot management with AI suggestions
• Risk reports, grading, and profit tracking
• Unlimited collections, tags, and bulk operations
• Custom listing templates and seller automations

RocketVault Marketplace supports U.S. buyers and U.S. sellers only. Existing members can prepare private drafts before seller setup. Public browsing needs no account; guest buying is available when checkout is open. Offers require a RocketVault account. eBay requires a connected seller account and continues to apply its own fees, policies, and allowances.