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# How to Set a Price Floor and Ceiling on TCGplayer

> The exact steps to stop a card from repricing below or above a dollar amount in Hoard, including a hard floor and per-rule limits.

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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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](/how-to/price-a-custom-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](https://www.tryhoard.com/repricing/price-floors-and-ceilings) for the strategy behind picking floor numbers, and [how Hoard's pricing rules work](/features/pricing) for the full layer-by-layer formula.