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A price floor stops Hoard from repricing a card below a dollar amount you choose, and a ceiling caps how high it will go. Both are settings-level guardrails that sit underneath your pricing rules, so they apply no matter which rule or multiplier priced the card in the first place. Here’s exactly where to set them.

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Step 1: Open Settings > Pricing

From your dashboard, go to Settings then the Pricing tab. This is where your global price source, multiplier, and floor settings live.

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Step 2: Set your hard floor

Find the hard floor field and enter a dollar amount. This is a global minimum — Hoard will never price a card below it, regardless of what a pricing rule’s multiplier or market price would otherwise produce. There’s a difference between a hard floor and floor-aware pricing:
  • Floor-aware pricing nudges a card’s price up toward your floor as market price approaches it, so you don’t get stuck exactly at the floor on every cheap card.
  • Hard floor is the absolute minimum. Even floor-aware pricing can’t push a card below it.
Both run automatically once you set a floor value — there’s no separate toggle.

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Step 3: Set a ceiling with a “never go down” rule instead

Hoard doesn’t have a single global ceiling field. Instead, ceilings are set per card group through a pricing rule: search for the cards you want capped, save that search as a rule, and set a multiplier that represents the maximum markup you want. Since first-match-wins rule ordering applies, put a capping rule above any broader rule that would otherwise price those cards higher. Go to Settings > Rules to create or edit a rule, or use the $ icon on a bookmarked search from the Cards tab if you already have one saved.

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Step 4: Try to save a price below the floor manually

If you manually override a single card’s price below your hard floor, Hoard shows a below-floor warning inline in the price cell before letting you save. This catches typos and confirms you meant to go below your own limit.

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Step 5: Confirm it took effect

Run Update Prices (previously called Mass Reprice) from the Cards tab, or wait for your next scheduled sync. Cards that were priced below your new floor should reprice up to it. Use Test a card on the Rules page to check a specific card’s pricing breakdown, including which layer — floor-aware, hard floor, or a rule — determined the final price.

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Stop a card from repricing below your cost

A hard floor works well for this too: set it to what you paid, and Hoard won’t chase the market down below that number even during a price war. If you want the floor to vary card by card — for example, different floors for different sets — use a pricing rule’s own floor instead of the global one, scoped to the search query for those cards. The Layer 2 floor-aware step and Layer 3 hard floor both use your chosen price source (market or low) as the reference. If you sell off TCGplayer’s lowest listing, the floor compares against your low-price reference rather than the always-higher low-plus-shipping figure, so switching price sources doesn’t accidentally undo the floor’s protection.

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If a card still drops below your floor

Check whether the card is a custom or photo listing (no TCGplayer product ID) — those follow a different market-seeding path and can sit at $0 until priced manually. See pricing a custom or photo listing. Otherwise, check Settings > Rules for a rule with its own floor set lower than your global one — a per-rule floor from the wizard overrides the global hard floor for cards that rule matches. Read why floors and ceilings matter for your margin for the strategy behind picking floor numbers, and how Hoard’s pricing rules work for the full layer-by-layer formula.