Card Shop Branding Stickers and Consignment Labels

A card shop is two businesses sharing one counter: the inventory you bought, and the inventory you are holding for somebody else. Card shop branding stickers handle the first — your logo on the case and on the box that goes out the door. Custom card labels for shops handle the second, because a numbered label turns a Saturday intake into a line you can look up six weeks later.

A Serial Seal is a printed holographic foil label, die-cut, individually numbered, carrying your shop's artwork. The standard size is 1.77 x 0.75 in (44.96 x 19.05 mm) — about the short edge of a top loader. It goes on the plastic: loader, one-touch, team bag, box lid. Never on the card, never on factory-sealed wax, never on a holder headed to a grading company. The placement guide covers every format.

Consignment intake label for a card shop: one number, one photo

Most consignment headaches at a local card shop are bookkeeping, not theft. Two raw Charizards arrive the same afternoon from two different consignors, both in plain loaders, and by the time one sells the sticky note has moved.

Intake takes about twenty seconds per card:

1. Seal the loader. One numbered label across the open edge, pressed down while the consignor is still at the counter.
2. Photograph it. Front and back, with the number readable in the same frame as the card.
3. Write the number down. On the intake sheet, next to the agreed ask, the split and the date.

What the consignor walks out with is the number and the photo. When they text you in October about "the Jordan," you ask for the number, pull the photo, and you are both looking at the same object. A number, a picture, a date — bookkeeping, nothing more.

The number is the join key between the card and your POS

Serial Seal is not point of sale. If you run Ricochet, SimpleConsign, ConsignCloud or SortSwift, those systems already hold the consignor record, the split and the payout schedule. What software cannot do is stay stuck to a card while it moves from the intake bin to the showcase to a show table to a shipping box.

The seal number is the join key. Put your prefix and the number in the SKU field or the item note — LCS-1042 in the software, LCS-1042 on the loader — and the object and the database row become one record that anyone on shift can read.

Numbering is yours to set: your prefix plus sequential from a start number you choose, random codes, a batch code plus a number for a case buy, or no number when a run is pure branding. Most shops split the ranges — consignment at 1000, house inventory at 5000, break and event stock at 9000 — so the number says which book it belongs to.

A consignment tag for trading cards that reads back both ways

Within one order, no two seals share a number, so a consignment tag for trading cards stays specific to the intake it was written against. Standard seals come in Shattered Prism and Aurora foil; layouts are portrait or landscape flat, folded, slab banner, toploader banner, and Duo. Duo is the intake layout: two numbered halves on one label you cut apart — half on the loader, half stapled to the intake sheet.

Each seal can carry an optional QR pointing wherever you want — your buy list, your show calendar, or the seal record: a page showing the design, the number and the date it was logged. It says nothing about the card. Your running list lives in My Seals.

Card shop inventory stickers for the showcase, the restock and the count

Same labels, second job. Card shop inventory stickers make a sealed loader a countable unit rather than a card somebody has to identify.

• Showcase. Number rows as you fill them; the closing count becomes reading numbers off the front of the case, not pulling forty loaders.
• Restock. Mark sold numbers off the sheet and the gaps tell you what to bring up from the back.
• The count. Cycle count a case in minutes — read, match, note anything missing while the shift is still on.
• Boxes. The Large seal, 2.5 x 1 in (63.5 x 25.4 mm), fits an 800-count lid or the end of a 3,200-count monster box. See the storage box and show inventory guide.

For anything shipping out of the shop, a sealed loader photographed at packing helps document what was shipped, and helps deter swaps and return fraud — more on how to word that in our return fraud notes. If you run breaks or set up at events, the breaker page and the card show page cover those tables.

Card shop branding stickers and grading stickers as one system

Two products, one look. The seal brands the plastic on the way out; the sticker brands it in the case. Custom Grading Stickers are a separate item for top loaders and slabs — packs of 12 at $6.00 ($0.50 each), down to $0.40 each at 600 and up, with five layouts, ten holographic backgrounds, and your own displayed grade and shop name. Shops use them for house-graded raw, "shop pick" call-outs, and consignor lots that need a readable shelf label.

Custom collector display sticker. Not affiliated with or certified by any third-party grading company.

Run the same artwork, foil and prefix across both and the case reads as one shop — see counter branding for card shops.

Shop volume, pricing and reorder cadence

Standard seals are $6.00 per pack of 12. The minimum order is 60 seals — five packs, $30.00 — and the per-seal price steps down as the run grows:

Seals	Each	Order total
60	$0.50	$30.00
120	$0.45	$54.00
600	$0.40	$240.00
1,200	$0.36	$432.00
2,400	$0.33	$792.00
4,200	$0.30	$1,260.00

Large seals are $9.00 per pack of 12, with a 60-seal minimum at $45.00 ($0.75 each), then 10% off at 120, 20% at 600, 30% at 1,200 and 40% at 4,200 — $0.45 each at the deepest step.

A store taking in 25 consignment cards a week and sealing 15 showcase or shipped items burns about 40 a week — roughly 2,080 a year, or a 1,200-seal order at $432.00 every seven months. Self-serve ordering runs to 10,008 seals per order; past that, or for a multi-store group wanting a different prefix per location, ask for a quote.

What a seal will not do

Plainly, so nobody at your counter oversells it: a seal can be peeled off and a new one put on. It is a label on plastic, not a lock. It says nothing about the card underneath — not the grade, not the print run, not where it came from. It carries no standing with any marketplace, grading company or payment provider, and it does not decide how a return goes. What it does is give you and your consignor the same number, the same photo and the same date. Any wording you put in a listing or an intake agreement should describe only the number, the photo and the log.

Card shop questions

Do we need to seal every card in the case?

No. Most shops seal what is consigned, plus house inventory above a price threshold they set — often anything over $50 in the showcase. Bulk and dollar boxes are not worth the twenty seconds.

Will this work with the consignment software we already run?

Yes, because it does not touch it. Ricochet, SimpleConsign, ConsignCloud and SortSwift keep the consignor, the split and the payout. You paste the seal number into the SKU or note field, and it becomes the join key between that row and the loader in the case.

Can a seal be removed?

Yes. It peels, and another one can be applied. Treat it as a numbered label that helps you document and match items, not as a lock on the holder.

What do we hand a consignor at intake?

The seal number and a photo showing that number in the same frame as the card, front and back. With the Duo layout they also take the matching numbered half. That is the whole record.

Set your prefix, pick your start number, drop in your shop logo and build your seals in the builder — standard size is the default, with the Large seal for boxes and slab banners. Sizing questions are answered in the FAQ.