Comparison
CodeCard vs a spreadsheet
What most shops and booths actually use today: a spreadsheet, a price-check app open on the counter, and handwritten tags.
The short version
A spreadsheet records the price you wrote down. It cannot tell you that the card has moved 40% since, and neither can the tag on the sleeve. Every card you have tagged is priced at the moment you tagged it, which is why the ones that run up get sold under market and the ones that fall sit unsold.
Pick a spreadsheet if…
You carry a small, stable inventory you can re-check by hand, and you are not losing sales to stale prices.
Pick CodeCard if…
You have more cards than you can realistically re-price by hand, and you have already sold something for far less than it was worth.
Price & fees, side by side
| CodeCard | a spreadsheet | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | Free (250 cards) · Hobby $19 · Shop $49 · Pro $149 · Elite $299 | Free |
| Cut of your sales | None | None — except the ones you do not see |
| Live-priced QR tags | Yes — the whole point | No |
What a spreadsheet does better
Genuinely — these are reasons to pick them, not faint praise.
- Free, familiar, and yours. No subscription, no vendor, no migration.
- Infinitely flexible — it does exactly what you tell it to.
- Works offline, at a show, on a laptop with no signal.
See it on one card
Start free, tag a card, and scan the sticker with your phone. That is the whole pitch — it takes about a minute to know whether it is for you.
Start free — no card required