Seller Marketplace

Overview

The RocketVault Seller Marketplace turns a card already in My Vault into a fixed-price listing without rebuilding its identity, images, grade, or pricing context. The core flow is:

Scan. Price. List. Sell.

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Open one eligible card and choose List card, or select a batch in My Vault and choose List cards. Both open the same RocketVault Marketplace, eBay, or dual-destination chooser. Scan to sell captures a new card and moves directly from identification into listing review. RocketVault prefills the exact-card record, keeps asking prices separate from completed-sale evidence, and shows estimated seller proceeds before publication.

List a Card From My Vault

1. Open Vault → All Cards and select one or more eligible cards. For a single card, List card on the card detail page opens the same destination chooser and review. On phones, the same action stays in the sticky thumb-zone bar.
2. Choose List cards and pick RocketVault Marketplace, eBay, or RocketVault Marketplace + eBay. eBay options stay unavailable until the connected account and plan permit publishing.
3. Review the prefilled identity, grade or raw condition, and card images. RocketVault assumes the saved images show the exact physical card; replace an image if that assumption is wrong. There is no extra image-confirmation checkbox.
4. Enter a fixed list price, decide whether to accept offers, and optionally set an automatic-decline floor. When you cross-list to eBay, you may also set eBay's automatic-accept threshold; RocketVault Marketplace uses that threshold after checkout is enabled.
5. RocketVault automatically uses the account's default shipping origin from Settings → Selling. Select a saved RocketVault shipping policy or use seller defaults. A policy can specify the RocketVault-enabled label provider, package profile, carrier and service preference, buyer-paid or free shipping, insurance, and signature confirmation. You do not need your own Shippo or EasyPost login; RocketVault provisions the required seller shipping account behind the scenes when that provider is activated.
6. If listing to eBay too, select eBay fulfillment, payment, and return policies independently. RocketVault never substitutes its label policy for eBay's business policies.
7. Review the fee, estimated label cost, and You receive amount. For a batch, RocketVault reviews and publishes one exact card at a time.

The shared fixed price and offer thresholds carry to eBay when you choose both destinations. The RocketVault shipping policy is only for RocketVault label workflows; eBay continues to use its own business policies and settings.

RocketVault checks the card's current ownership and status again while publishing. It will not publish the same physical card into conflicting RocketVault sale, lot, trade, or marketplace commitments.

eBay and RocketVault Inventory Safety

Choosing RocketVault Marketplace + eBay is an intentional cross-listing flow. RocketVault records that intent before publishing, requires the eBay copy to be live before it publishes the RocketVault copy, and uses sale-time safeguards for provider delays, synchronization races, and inventory changed outside RocketVault:

• When eBay reports a buyer, RocketVault immediately removes the matching RocketVault listing from discovery. If a RocketVault checkout had already reserved the card, RocketVault makes that hosted checkout unpayable before releasing the rest of the order.
• When the eBay order becomes paid, the Vault card moves from Pending payment to Sold.
• When a RocketVault checkout is paid, RocketVault sends a durable, retryable request to end the matching eBay listing. RocketVault does not mark the eBay copy ended until eBay confirms it.

An eBay order that is already awaiting buyer payment is never silently canceled by a later RocketVault event. RocketVault removes the card from sale and flags the conflict for administrative review. Provider restrictions can also prevent an auction with bids from ending early; those failures remain visible and retryable rather than being reported as a successful delist. Cross-listing reduces double-sale risk; it does not hide a provider failure or pretend a race was resolved when it was not.

Scan to Sell

Choose Scan to sell from Marketplace. Capture the card as normal. When a single identified card is ready, RocketVault returns directly to its listing review instead of making you find the new inventory record first.

The scan creates one durable Vault card and one idempotent marketplace draft. Retrying or refreshing the review page returns the same draft rather than creating duplicate inventory.

Publish From Lots

The Publish listing action on a draft lot uses the same destination chooser as My Vault: RocketVault Marketplace, eBay, or both.

• eBay keeps the existing grouped-lot publisher.
• RocketVault Marketplace archives the draft grouping and sends each physical card into the normal exact-card review queue. RocketVault Marketplace does not claim to support a grouped multi-card listing yet.
• Both uses that same per-card RocketVault review queue and carries eBay cross-listing intent with each card. A seller still reviews the exact cards before they go live.

The conversion is atomic. If any selected lot or card is not owned, no longer a draft, missing an image, or committed to another active listing, trade, or unselected lot, RocketVault leaves the entire selection unchanged.

Use Seller Marketplace on a Phone

Open More → Vault → Marketplace from the mobile bottom navigation. Selling is beside it for listings, offers, sold orders, balance, and payouts.

On the Vault screen, select cards and use the compact List action to open the destination picker. On Card Detail, the sticky List card action opens that same picker. It is a touch-friendly sheet: choose RocketVault Marketplace, eBay, or both, then review each card in sequence. The phone layout keeps core controls at least 44 pixels tall, stacks price, offer, and shipping-policy forms without horizontal page overflow, wraps long order and tracking details, and keeps the current listing action in the thumb zone above the bottom navigation. The same responsive flow applies to Marketplace discovery, listing detail, Vault-to-Sell, purchases, fulfillment, seller operations, and authorized admin review.

On iPhone and iPad, hosted seller onboarding, checkout, payout settings, and printable labels open through the native external-link handoff. Returning to RocketVault restores the applicable order or Selling context; RocketVault never asks you to type payment-card or bank credentials into its own form.

Pricing Labels

RocketVault uses distinct labels because these numbers mean different things:

Low evidence stays visibly low confidence. An active asking price is never silently presented as market value.

Pricing Choices and Offer Guardrails

RocketVault Marketplace currently uses fixed-price listings. The seller can choose:

If the seller chooses both RocketVault Marketplace and eBay, the fixed price, offer setting, automatic-decline floor, and automatic-accept threshold are sent to eBay as matching Best Offer terms. Until RocketVault checkout is enabled, automatic acceptance applies only on eBay and RocketVault Marketplace offers remain manual. Auctions, reserve prices, multi-quantity inventory, scheduled markdowns, automated repricing, and promoted listings are not RocketVault Marketplace listing types today; eBay-only listing workflows retain the eBay options RocketVault already supports.

Reusable RocketVault Shipping Policies

One Default Shipping Origin

Set the ship-from address once in Settings → Selling. RocketVault encrypts it at rest, marks it as the account default, and uses it automatically for every RocketVault Marketplace shipment. Listing forms show a compact confirmation of the saved default instead of asking for the full address again.

Editing the default changes the origin used for the next label quote or purchase; it never rewrites a label already purchased or its shipment history. Shipping payer, buyer charge, package profile, carrier, insurance, and signature choices belong to reusable shipping policies; saving an address does not change those terms.

Shipping policies remove repeated label setup without hiding terms from a buyer. RocketVault maintains the marketplace-level shipping integrations; sellers do not create or connect separate carrier-aggregator accounts. For Shippo, RocketVault uses a headless Managed Account for each seller, so there is no Shippo website login. Choose Manage beside the RocketVault shipping-policy picker to create, edit, or archive a provider-neutral policy. A policy contains:

• Label provider — EasyPost or Shippo when that RocketVault adapter is enabled for policy preparation. Setup pending means label purchase is unavailable. Shippo also requires RocketVault's Platform Account, a Managed Account and carrier activation for that seller, secure credentials, and tracking callback. EasyPost requires RocketVault's Forge seller-sub-account integration before it can activate.
• Package — raw single, graded single, or multi-card package.
• Carrier and service preference — USPS, UPS, FedEx, or best available; RocketVault ranks matching rates first rather than claiming a carrier can always serve a route.
• Buyer-paid or free shipping — including the buyer charge where applicable.
• Insurance and signature requirements — plus any stricter value-based controls configured by RocketVault.
• Default status — the first policy can become the default for a new Vault-to-Sell review.

RocketVault snapshots the selected terms into the listing. Editing a saved policy later never changes a live listing or an existing order. For a multi-card order, RocketVault combines items only when their selected policies use the same provider; it preserves the stricter protection settings across the package.

Find the Exact Card

Marketplace search understands the card's indexed identity text, while advanced filters narrow by player, sport or category, year, set, parallel, card number, grading company, grade, raw or graded condition, price, seller, offer availability, and listing recency. Results can be sorted by recently listed, recently updated, lowest or highest price, and popularity.

Seller-inventory links preserve the seller filter, and exact card-number filtering is separate from a broad keyword match.

Fees and Proceeds

The launch target for a Standard seller is a configurable 5% seller fee on the card sale price. At that target, a $100 card displays a $5 marketplace fee and $95 seller proceeds before seller-paid shipping or refunds. There is no listing fee, buyer marketplace fee, standard payout withdrawal fee, or hidden fee.

The fee is selected by a server-side effective-dated rule, captured on the listing and order, and shown again before checkout. It is not hard-coded into the listing screen. See Marketplace Fees & Net Calculation for rollout assumptions and exclusions.

Taxes and buyer-paid shipping appear separately from the card price. If the seller chooses Free shipping, the estimated label cost is deducted in the proceeds preview.

Seller Setup and Payouts

Before publishing, a seller completes identity and payout onboarding in the payment provider's hosted experience and saves one default shipping origin under Settings → Selling. RocketVault does not store card numbers or bank-account credentials.

The Selling dashboard separates five amounts instead of calling every locally eligible dollar available:

• Pending settlement — paid orders that have not met delivery and settlement requirements.
• Eligible after delivery — RocketVault-confirmed proceeds that cleared delivery, hold, refund, and dispute checks.
• Available at Stripe — the connected account balance Stripe currently reports as available, shown only after provider reconciliation succeeds.
• Payable now — the lower of RocketVault eligibility and Stripe availability.
• Paid out — completed payout history.

Payment success is not transaction completion. Standard payouts are created only after tracked delivery, the configured settlement hold, checks for refunds or disputes, and sufficient available balance at Stripe. Funds that are locally eligible but still pending at Stripe remain in a visible waiting for funds state and are retried safely; RocketVault does not report a failed payout or complete the order prematurely. Definitive provider rejections use bounded automatic retries and then move to Operator review instead of retrying forever; ambiguous provider responses remain quarantined for same-key reconciliation. The payout action says Set up payouts, Continue setup, or Manage payouts from the actual onboarding state. Optional instant payout eligibility and provider charges are shown only when the provider supports them; RocketVault does not add a withdrawal fee.

Buy and Make an Offer

An active listing shows the card price, shipping, estimated tax treatment, seller reputation, and separately labeled pricing evidence.

• Buy now opens provider-hosted checkout when checkout is enabled.
• Make offer is available only when the seller allows offers.
• Add to watchlist saves the listing and updates its watch count.

Offers can be pending, accepted, declined, countered, or expired. An accepted offer reserves the card for a configurable payment window. If payment is not completed, RocketVault expires the provider checkout session before returning the listing to discovery.

Shipping and Delivery

After payment, the seller works through:

Sale confirmed → Package card → Select label → Print label → Ship

RocketVault quotes a card-specific package profile, applies the selected policy's enabled label provider and rate preferences, purchases a tracked label through the seller's RocketVault-managed provider sub-account when that adapter and carrier are ready, and attaches the tracking number to the order. You do not need to register for Shippo or EasyPost. Required insurance and signature confirmation are configuration-driven by sale value; the seller cannot remove required controls from a high-value shipment.

Tracking updates move an order through awaiting shipment, shipped, in transit, delivered, and completed. Buyers and sellers can open the same order timeline from purchase or selling history.

Ratings, Refunds, and Disputes

After completion, the buyer can rate the seller and optionally score whether the card matched its description, packaging, and shipping speed. Ratings are tied to one completed order and cannot be submitted by unrelated users.

Refund and dispute states remain attached to the RocketVault order and financial ledger even when the payment provider is the authoritative source for the external transfer. Administrators can search users, listings, orders, and provider references; review transactions, tracking, disputes, provider state, and risk signals; remove listings; suspend or restore sellers; issue eligible refunds; and inspect the administrative-action history. Deterministic signals cover suspicious price, value/velocity, repeated refund or dispute, and exact duplicate image-reference patterns. They surface cases for review and never automatically ban a user solely from a score.

Once a seller payout is creating, pending, in transit, or paid, RocketVault blocks the normal automated-refund path. An administrator must reconcile the provider payout first so a refund does not silently create a negative seller balance.

Legacy Trade History

Seller Marketplace replaces Trade as the primary marketplace destination when the rollout is enabled. Existing trade listings, offers, messages, receipts, and historical URLs are preserved for record integrity. Direct Card Show handshakes remain a separate in-person workflow rather than being converted into marketplace orders.