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. Open an item and click Log a sale to record the buyer, shipping charged vs. actual, and (if you connect EasyPost) buy a label right there — see Shipping labels. Sold a stack at a con? Select multiple books and use Mark as sold — it pre-fills each price from your current values. You can also ask the AI assistant (“mark Spider-Man 300 as sold for $50”).

Key issues

A comic can be a major or minor key. The app sets a sensible default from the catalog, and you can always override it in the item’s Key issue dropdown.

• First issue of the first volume (a series debut, including cover variants like #1A) → major key. Volume is matched from the comic database by its start year, not by text in the title.
• Any other first issue (a later volume, or a reprint, collected edition, or anthology special) → minor key.
• A known first appearance / origin / death from the catalog takes precedence and marks the book major.

Your own choice always wins — set the dropdown yourself and the app won’t override it. The Key info field and the community “is this key correct?” prompt sit right below it. Keys show under Keys in the sidebar and are discoverable to the AI assistant (“show me my major keys”).

Runs

A run is 3+ consecutive issues of one volume. You can build one two ways:

• Add a run directly: in the series view, choose Add a run, search the volume, and check the issues you own — they’re added in bulk, each priced and with its #1 flagged as a key automatically.
• Collect one over time: keep adding individual issues, and once you own 3+ in a row the app recognizes it as a run.

Either way, a completed run is valued at the combined value of its books plus 10% — a complete run is worth more than the sum of its issues. This shows on the run in the series view and is included in your collection total.

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

• Enrich: match an item against our metadata index to fill writer / artist / release date, its volume, and its key rating. High-confidence matches (90%+) apply automatically; lower-confidence ones let you pick which fields to accept. Bulk enrich runs the same match across many unenriched items at once.
• 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.