Inventory

Your inventory is the central record of every comic you own — what you paid for it, what it’s worth, condition, key status, where you bought it, where you sold it.

Adding an item

1. Open Inventory, click Add item.
2. Required: Title. Everything else is optional but fill in what you know — fields you skip can be enriched later.
3. Issue number, publisher, and release date are the most useful for matching to our external metadata index (used by price sync + the AI connector’s search).
4. Acquired price + shipping cost combine into your "all-in" cost basis. P/L calculations use this — don’t forget shipping if it’s meaningful.
5. Click Save. The item is in your collection immediately; price sync runs in the background automatically.

Searching

The search box at the top of /inventory is a full-text search across title, publisher, and creator fields. Hits update as you type.

• Single word: matches any field
• Multi-word: matches phrases. amazing spider-man ranks runs of Amazing Spider-Man above standalone Spider-Man issues
• Combine with filters (status, key type, publisher) using the dropdowns next to the search box

Status flow

Every item has one of three statuses:

• In stock — you own it, it’s not listed anywhere. Default for new items.
• Listed — you’ve put it up on a marketplace. The marketplace integration sets this automatically when you publish from Inventory.
• Sold — recorded sale. Move here by clicking the Sell button on an item OR via the AI assistant (“mark Spider-Man 300 as sold for $50”). Captures sold price and date.

Key issues

Flag a comic as a major or minor key by setting its Key type field. Major keys are first-appearance, origin, or death-of-an-iconic-character issues. Minor keys are smaller-but-meaningful firsts.

Tagged items show up under Keys in the inventory sidebar and become discoverable to the AI assistant (“show me my major keys”).

Photos and covers

Open an item and click Upload cover to add your own photo. We also auto-match items to a catalog cover library — even without uploading, you’ll usually see a stock cover that fits the issue.

Bulk operations

• Bulk enrich: under Inventory → Enrich (or via the AI: “run bulk enrich”). Matches up to 200 unenriched items at a time against our metadata index. High- confidence matches auto-fill writer / artist / release date; medium-confidence go to a human-review queue.
• Bulk publish: select items in the inventory grid and click Publish to marketplace to push to eBay or one of the CSV-based marketplaces in one go.
• Bulk price sync: runs automatically on a rolling schedule. Prices refresh in the background — no manual trigger needed.

Gotchas

• Free plan caps inventory at 500 items. Hitting it stops new additions until you upgrade — Collector and above are unlimited.
• Pricing fields are USD. Don’t mix currencies in one workspace.
• Going rate and Sold price are different — going rate is the current market value; sold price is what you actually got. Set going rate manually or let automatic pricing handle it; only set sold price when you mark something sold.