Scan to Action

What Scan to Action does

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Open Scan from the center camera button and photograph the card front, then the back. RocketVault will not price or action the scan until both sides are present: the front supplies the player and design, while the back supplies the card number, copyright year, product line, and serial/parallel evidence needed to select trustworthy comps. RocketVault then layers in:

• Card identity, including visible slab company and overall grade
• Whether the card is already in your vault
• RocketVault Pricing with an evidence-confidence label
• Your maximum offer after fees, shipping, supplies, and target ROI
• Candidate parallels with price differences
• The cheapest conservatively matched active online listing, when it was checked, and a refresh action
• Progress for catalog sets you explicitly choose to track
• Add, Buy, Trade, Watch, and Pass actions that stay live while pricing finishes

Scan to Action, manual-shutter batch mode, table carts, show sessions, max-offer math, and the raw-to-graded value ladder are available on every plan.

Weak signal and offline behavior

Each compressed front/back pair is written to the device before identification starts. If the venue connection drops, the scan shows as waiting and processes when the app returns to the foreground or connectivity comes back. Refreshing or backgrounding the browser does not discard the queue. An active show is also retried to the server on every foreground and online transition using the same idempotency key.

Install RocketVault to your home screen before a show when possible. Mobile browsers can evict website storage after long periods of disuse; starting a show session displays an install reminder for that reason.

Reading the result

High-confidence pricing shows a point estimate. Thin or old evidence shows a range. A low-confidence identity, slab company, overall grade, or poor-glare capture suppresses money until you confirm the read.

Tap the comp count beside the confidence label to inspect the individual sales, prices, dates, conditions, and source links behind the estimate.

The max offer uses:

net proceeds = comp value - marketplace fee - order fee
             - promoted-listing fee - shipping - supplies

max offer = net proceeds / (1 + target ROI)

Use the 25%, 50%, or 100% ROI chips during a negotiation. Change the defaults under Settings → Acquisition; the worked example there updates with your numbers.

Correcting a parallel, identity field, grader, or grade refreshes comps, max offer, the live listing, and the grade ladder together. Old money is never kept beside a corrected identity.

An active listing is a timestamped snapshot, not a reservation. It can sell, expire, or change after RocketVault checks it. Tap Refresh active listing before relying on it during a negotiation. If eBay is slow or rate limited, RocketVault Pricing and max-offer math remain available.

Track a set

When a catalog match exposes a numbered checklist, choose Track this set. RocketVault compares distinct checklist numbers with catalog-linked cards in your vault. Parallels do not inflate the checklist, archived or zero-quantity cards do not count, and a number you already own is called out.

The completion message appears only when the scanned number is the final missing checklist number and would become owned after you add it. Sets without a reliable numbered catalog checklist cannot be tracked, preventing a guessed completion claim. Choose Stop at any time to remove the tracking preference without changing your cards.

Acting on a card

Add or Buy

Add places the card in your vault. Buy also records quantity and an optional purchase price. A front and back are required before either action; purchase price and parallel confirmation can still be deferred at the table, and every deferred detail becomes a visible task in Needs attention.

A price of $0 is valid for a free card and is not treated as missing.

Watch and share

Watch saves immediately, then optionally accepts a table/dealer label and asking price. If the ask is above the cheapest matched active listing, RocketVault says so plainly.

The share button creates a link containing only the image, identity, comp snapshot, confidence, ask, and table label. It never exposes the owner’s vault, cost basis, margin, or max offer. Links expire after seven days by default. From scan history you can disable a link immediately or create a fresh link that invalidates the old one. A Watch item converts to a purchase with one tap.

Trade

Trade comparison only uses your active, trade-capable marketplace listings. Cash-only, reserved, paused, and closed listings are excluded. Each side shows its value source and confidence. Thin target comps produce a delta range instead of false precision.

Choose Suggest cards to trade to select the available card or bundle closest to the other side’s value. The suggestion never sends or accepts an offer: it replaces the current draft selection, then every card remains individually editable. Cards without a usable value are excluded, and the closest under- or over-value bundle is shown when no exact match exists.

The delta is context, not a verdict; condition, liquidity, scarcity, and preference still matter.

Table carts and exact cost basis

Start a show session, open a table cart, and scan each card you are holding. The header keeps item count, total comp value, and total max offer visible.

At settlement, enter the one lump sum you negotiated:

1. Cards with good comps use comp value as their allocation weight.
2. A card without a comp must get a rough value or be marked Freebie.
3. A freebie gets exactly $0 basis.
4. An exact per-card basis override is reserved first.
5. Every remaining cent is distributed proportionally using deterministic largest-remainder rounding.

The preview can be changed until commit. Allocated bases always sum to the negotiated total exactly, to the cent. The server keeps the table in Settling until every expected card arrives and the exact sum reconciles.

Batch mode

From Scan, choose Batch mode. The camera stays open and uses a manual shutter—there is no stability auto-trigger. Capture a front, then its matching back. The pair is compressed and moved into the durable queue only after both sides are present; the full images are then released from page memory.

Done is enabled only after a complete pair, so an interrupted odd photo cannot be priced against the wrong card. Failed and low-confidence scans sort ahead of clean results. Actions advance to the next card without forcing table-side typing.

After a burst, RocketVault may ask whether to start a show session. It never starts one silently.

End-of-day reconciliation

The show summary tracks cards scanned and bought, open tables, spend, acquired comp value, projected post-fee margin, and best/lowest projected buys. It cannot close while a table is unsettled or an allocated card is still syncing.

Use Reconcile skipped details for legacy missing-back records, identity/parallel confirmations, and purchase data. Adding the back to a legacy scan re-runs identity and pricing before money is shown. That queue is resumable; closing the show summary does not delete unresolved card tasks.

Common edge cases

• No comp: no point estimate or offer is invented. Use a rough allocation value or mark the card as a freebie.
• Only one side captured: the scan remains in capture/recovery state and no comp or max offer is shown.
• Front and back are different cards: identity confidence is capped, pricing is suppressed, and the pair routes to review.
• All freebies: a $0 table settlement is valid.
• Manual bases exceed the deal: commit is blocked until overrides fit inside the total.
• Connection dies during commit: local photos and allocations stay queued. Idempotency IDs prevent duplicates on retry.
• Mobile storage is cleared before a table settles: the active show shell is retried to the server on foreground/online transitions; unsynced image blobs still depend on browser storage until their card writes finish.
• Unknown grader or unreadable grade: confirm manually before money appears.
• BGS subgrades: enter the overall grade, not a subgrade.
• PSA qualifier: keep qualifiers such as OC, MK, or ST with the grade.
• Live listing unavailable or sold after the check: sold comps and max offer still render; the timestamped active-listing block degrades independently and can be refreshed.
• Set has no numbered checklist: tracking is unavailable and RocketVault never claims the scan completes it.
• Shared link is forwarded later: expiry, disable, and rotation prevent indefinite access; an expired or revoked URL returns no card data.