Smart Actions

Smart Actions are recommendations Hoard creates from your inventory, pricing, and sales history. They appear in Today > Suggestions when Hoard sees something worth reviewing.

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Where to find them

Open Today > Suggestions. The Suggestions subtab holds AI suggestions that need your judgment. Deterministic must-do actions live in the Actions strip on the Today Overview.

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What Hoard can suggest

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Raise price

Hoard may suggest a price increase when a card is priced meaningfully below market. Accepting this action starts a price update preview. You still get to review the price changes before they are applied.

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Pricing power

Hoard may suggest a raise when a card sells steadily, few copies are listed, and your listing sits well below the next one — for example: “sells steadily and only 6 copies are listed — you’re $1.03 under the next listing.” The suggestion shows your current price, the suggested price, and the evidence (sales in the last 30 days, copies listed, the gap). Tapping Raise applies the suggested price immediately — no preview step, because the exact price is shown on the card before you tap. This suggestion only ever raises; it will never propose lowering a price. See Market depth and watching for the signals behind it.

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Anchor to sales

Hoard may suggest anchoring a card to recent sales when few copies are listed and the lowest listing is far from what the card has actually been selling for. The suggestion shows the comp anchor, how many comps it is built from, and your current price. Tapping Use sales switches that card’s pricing mode to Anchor to Sales. This is a durable mode change, not a one-time price write: no price is set at that moment, and every later reprice for that card prices off the comp anchor instead of the lowest listing. It is refused if the card is price-locked, muted, or already anchored.

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Demand pulse

Hoard may flag a card when demand or market price moves unusually compared with its recent baseline. This is meant for curveballs: cards that were quiet, bulk-adjacent, or easy to miss until a format, deck, content trend, or thin-market move made them worth a closer look.

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Move stale inventory

Hoard may flag cards that have inventory available but have not moved recently. This helps you find candidates for a temporary sale or discount rule.

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Hold price

Hoard may suggest protecting a price when a card is selling and you only have a small quantity left. This is meant to prevent accidentally discounting cards that are already moving.

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Fix rules

Hoard may flag pricing-rule coverage gaps when a large share of active inventory is using your default strategy.

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Scope drift

Hoard flags product lines you have inventory in that your repricing scope does not cover. The typical case: you grew from a Magic-only seller into a Pokemon side hustle, but your repricing scope is still Magic only. Cards in a product line outside your repricing scope are skipped by repricing entirely. They keep whatever price they were listed at until you widen the scope. The recommendation names the uncovered product line and how many cards are affected. Acting on it opens Settings > Sync, where the Reprice with Hoard checkboxes control which product lines repricing covers.

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Flash sale candidate

Hoard finds clusters of stale cards (stock you have but isn’t moving) and groups them into one temporary-sale suggestion. The cluster is built from cards that share enough attributes that a single sale rule covers all of them cleanly. The button reads Update rules and opens the rule wizard in Settings > Rules, pre-scoped to the cluster’s set, with the suggested discount and duration prefilled. You review the matched cards and confirm through the normal save path.

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Get discovered

Hoard may suggest turning on network discovery when buyers searched for cards you have in stock during the last 30 days and your account has not opted in. The suggestion names how many searches would have matched. Tapping Turn on discovery grants discovery consent immediately. This is a durable account setting, not a per-card change, and you can turn it back off from Settings. This one action is dashboard-only: a connected AI assistant cannot grant consent on your behalf.

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Reconcile stock

If ghost-inventory reconciliation is enabled on your account, Hoard may flag cards whose quantity dropped in the last 7 days with no matching sale, past the 24-hour grace period and not already categorized. Consignment decrements are excluded. The suggestion names how many cards are affected. Tapping Reconcile opens the Cards tab with the audit filter turned on. Click a card’s audit dot to categorize the drop.

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Why recommendations may appear immediately

If your account already has historical syncs, orders, or sales data in Hoard, Smart Actions can use that history. It does not need to wait months after launch to become useful. Hoard uses existing card snapshots, market price snapshots, inventory prices, quantities, sales movement, and pricing-rule matches to generate current recommendations.

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Review, handle, or mark not useful

Each Smart Action can be reviewed, handled, or marked not useful. Handled means you reviewed or dealt with the suggestion and no longer need it on the checklist. Not useful means the suggestion was wrong, noisy, or not helpful. Accepted, handled, and not useful card actions are suppressed for a while so Hoard does not keep showing the same suggestion every day.

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How to review a recommendation

1. Go to Today > Suggestions.
2. Read the recommendation title and confidence label.
3. Click Preview or Review to inspect the affected card, rule, or workflow.
4. If the recommendation is useful, act on it from the review flow.
5. If you already handled it another way, click Handled.
6. If the recommendation is wrong or noisy, click the small icon button next to Handled (hover text: Not useful). To clear a pile of same-type suggestions at once, use Dismiss all at the top of the list, or the dismiss-all icon on a collapsed cluster.

This distinction matters. Handled means the work was real and you dealt with it. Not useful means Hoard should learn that the suggestion itself was bad.

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Outcome tracking

Hoard records recommendation feedback separately from workflow completion, and can later observe whether accepted recommendations were followed by sales activity. These outcome numbers are intentionally conservative. They help Hoard learn which suggestions are useful, but they are not yet a promise of profit lift.

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Safety

Most Smart Actions are advisory. A Preview action queues a price update preview, and you review the price changes before they are applied. Some actions apply immediately, and their buttons say so. Raise on a pricing-power or locked-card suggestion writes the shown price straight to the card, and the new price ships on the next sync. Use sales switches the card to the Anchor to Sales pricing mode. Turn on discovery grants network-discovery consent. In each case the exact effect is stated on the suggestion before you tap.

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AI assistant access

If you have an AI assistant connected to your Hoard account, it can read and act on Smart Actions. There is no hoard.recommendations binding; the assistant calls the endpoints directly:

• hoard.http.get('/api/recommendations') returns the same list you see on the dashboard.
• hoard.http.post('/api/recommendations/<id>/accept', {}) marks the suggestion accepted and takes it out of the pending list. Whether it also changes anything depends on action_payload.action, which the list response includes:
  • preview_reprice queues a price-update preview. You still review and commit the preview separately.
  • apply_depth_raise and apply_locked_raise write the suggested price to the card.
  • apply_anchor_to_sales switches the card to the Anchor to Sales pricing mode.
  • enable_discovery is refused for assistant callers. Discovery consent has to be granted from the dashboard.
  • Every other action has no server-side effect: hold_price, create_sale_rule, review_rules, review_repricing_scope, review_unexplained_decrements, and suggest_flash_sale. On the dashboard those buttons open a review screen or a settings page rather than accepting. Posting accept on one of them only changes the suggestion’s status, so handle those from the dashboard.
• hoard.http.post('/api/recommendations/<id>/dismiss', {}) is equivalent to marking the suggestion not useful.

If a direct-apply action is refused — for example, an apply_anchor_to_sales suggestion for a card that is price-locked, muted, or already anchored — accept returns 409 with a code field and the suggestion stays pending. Reading the list needs read scope; accept and dismiss need write scope. Read-side calls are free. Write actions count toward your plugin credits.