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 — every new account gets 14 days of Seller access automatically, no credit card or code required
2. Sign up with email/password or Continue with Google
3. Verify your email if you signed up with a password
4. Explore eBay publish, Seller Marketplace when enabled for your account, bulk listing, lot building, and the rest of the Seller features during your trial
5. When you're ready, pick the Seller plan ($39.99/mo) for ongoing eBay integration

After signing in, the Command Center shows a Get set up to sell checklist that tracks the next steps — upload your first cards, review what the AI found, set up where you sell, and publish your first listing. When Seller Marketplace is enabled for your account, save the default shipping origin RocketVault will reuse for Marketplace shipments and complete seller verification. Otherwise, connect eBay. Then publish to the destinations enabled for your account: RocketVault Marketplace, eBay, or both. Each step ticks itself off automatically as you complete it, and the checklist disappears when you're done.

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 Seller Marketplace is enabled for your account, save one default ship-from address under Settings → Selling and complete the seller-verification prompts. RocketVault reuses that origin automatically for every shipment, so you do not re-enter it on each listing.

If you also want to publish to eBay:

1. Go to Settings → Connections
2. Click Connect eBay Account
3. Sign in to eBay and authorize RocketVault (secure OAuth — we never see your 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 — 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). ZIP upload is available in the current RocketVault web app on paid plans.
3. Mobile inventory capture: tap the center Add Cards button for paired front/back Multi-Card Scan or files. This server-backed path is the default 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.

Batch limits scale with your plan:

Import from eBay (Seller plan and above)

If you already have active eBay listings, the Seller plan lets you 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

Seller Marketplace is being enabled account by account while payments and shipping complete their controlled rollout. When it is enabled for you:

1. Save your one default ship-from address under Settings → Selling. RocketVault reuses it automatically; you do not re-enter an origin on every listing.
2. Open Vault → All Cards, select one or more eligible cards, and choose List cards. For one card, open Card Detail and choose List card; on phones that action stays above the bottom navigation. Or open Marketplace → Scan to sell for a new card.
3. Choose RocketVault Marketplace, eBay, or both. eBay options require a connected eBay account and a plan with eBay publishing.
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. Compare the asking price with separately labeled recent sales and RocketVault Estimated Value. Choose a fixed price, decide whether to accept offers, and optionally set automatic decline. Automatic acceptance is available for eBay Best Offer when you cross-list; RocketVault Marketplace uses it after checkout is enabled.
6. Select a reusable RocketVault shipping policy (RocketVault-enabled provider, package, carrier/service preference, buyer-paid or free shipping, insurance, and signature), then select eBay fulfillment/payment/return policies separately if you chose eBay. RocketVault owns the marketplace-level shipping integration and provisions the required headless seller sub-account when a provider activates; you do not need a Shippo or EasyPost login.
7. Review the marketplace fee, estimated shipping impact, and You receive amount before publishing. For a batch, RocketVault reviews each physical card before it publishes.
8. Manage listings, offers, orders, balance, and payouts from Selling. The balance separates pending settlement, delivery-eligible proceeds, Stripe-available funds, payable-now funds, and paid payouts so a still-settling Stripe balance is not shown as ready.

Draft lots use the same destination chooser. eBay retains the grouped-lot publisher. Choosing RocketVault Marketplace or both archives the draft grouping atomically and opens the contained cards in the normal per-card review queue; RocketVault Marketplace does not publish a grouped multi-card lot in this release.

When you choose both destinations, RocketVault records intentional cross-listing and applies the same fixed-price and offer terms to eBay. A sale event on either marketplace starts the other listing's end flow: an eBay buyer event removes RocketVault availability, while a paid RocketVault order queues the connected eBay listing to end. Pending-payment and provider-failure cases stay held for review rather than silently returning the card to inventory.

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
• Deals — count of hot buy-side opportunities; tap through to ask Vault Agent for the full list
• 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 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 intentionally list to both, an eBay buyer event removes the matching RocketVault listing, while a paid RocketVault order queues the connected eBay listing to end; provider limitations and races stay 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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Recommended Plan

For most sellers, the Seller plan ($39.99/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
• Every signup gets 14 days of Seller free — no credit card, no code

Upgrade to Pro ($99.99/mo) if you need 25,000-card capacity, custom listing templates, the Grading Assistant, or priority support.