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Preview Prices re-runs your pricing formula against your entire inventory without waiting for the next sync. You see a preview of every card that would change, the total dollar impact, and you decide whether to save those prices in Hoard. TCGplayer does not change until the saved prices sync. Think of it as a “what if” button for your pricing strategy.

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When to use it

  • You just changed a pricing setting and want to see the impact now, not on the next sync
  • You added a new per-card pricing rule and want to verify it does what you expect
  • You want to experiment with a different markup and see the numbers before committing
  • You just noticed a card spiked in price and want to reprice your inventory to match

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Step 1: Click Preview Prices

The Preview Prices button is in the toolbar at the top of the dashboard, next to Sync Now. Click it. Hoard runs your pricing formula against every card in your inventory. This usually takes a few seconds, even for large inventories (5,000+ cards).

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Step 2: Review the preview

The Cards tab switches to a preview mode showing you what would change. You’ll see:

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The stats bar

The stat cards at the top update to show post-reprice values. Each one shows a delta indicator so you can see the before and after.

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The card table

Every card that would get a new price shows in the table with:
  • The current price
  • The new target price
  • The change amount and direction
  • Which pricing rule triggered the change (if any)
Cards that wouldn’t change aren’t shown. You’re only looking at the diff.

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The action bar

At the top of the preview:
  • Save N Prices in Hoard — commits the new prices inside Hoard
  • Cancel — throws away the preview, nothing changes

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Step 3: Decide

Look at the preview and ask yourself: Are the changes what you expected? If you raised the markup from 20% to 25%, do you see a 5% increase across the board? If you added a pricing rule for Reserved List cards at 1.50x, are those cards showing a bump? Is the net impact reasonable? The total dollar impact tells you whether your inventory value went up or down overall. A small adjustment should show a proportional change. Any surprises? Sort by the change column to see the biggest movers. If a card jumped $50, check why. It might be correct (market moved), or it might be a data quirk you want to investigate. If it looks right, click Save Prices in Hoard. If not, click Cancel.

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Step 4: Sync to TCGplayer

After saving, a Sync to TCGplayer Now button appears. Click it to ask Hoard to send the new prices to TCGplayer on its next cycle. Or just wait, the next scheduled sync will pick them up automatically.

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Undoing a Price Update

Changed your mind? Every saved price update creates a snapshot you can roll back to.
  1. Go to the Today tab
  2. Click the Rollback subtab
  3. Find the price update entry in the list (it shows the date and how many cards changed)
  4. Click Rollback to preview the undo
  5. Confirm to restore your previous prices
Your prices go back to exactly where they were before the reprice. The snapshot includes every card that changed, so the rollback is precise.

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Example: testing a markup change

Say you’re currently at 20% markup and want to try 15% to move more inventory.
  1. Go to Settings > Pricing and change your markup to 15%
  2. Go back to the dashboard and click Preview Prices
  3. The preview shows every card dropping by roughly 5%
  4. Check the net impact. Maybe your 19,000inventorydropsto19,000 inventory drops to 18,200. That’s $800 less listed value, but it might mean faster sales.
  5. If the trade-off looks right, click Save Prices in Hoard. If not, cancel and change the markup back.
This whole process takes under a minute. No waiting for the next sync, no risk of prices going live before you’ve reviewed them.

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Example: adding a pricing rule

Say you just bookmarked a search and set a 1.50x multiplier on it (see the bookmark and pricing rule tutorial).
  1. Click Preview Prices to see the impact
  2. The preview shows those cards jumping from 1.20x to 1.50x
  3. A 100cardgoesfroma100 card goes from a 120 target to a $150 target
  4. The net impact shows a positive dollar change on those cards
  5. Save the prices if it looks right
This works the same whether you bookmarked Magic’s Reserved List, a Pokemon set, or any other search.

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Tips

  • Preview Prices and sync can’t run at the same time. If a sync is in progress, Hoard will tell you to wait. Same in reverse, if you’re previewing price updates, Hoard won’t start a sync until you’re done.
  • Locked cards are skipped. If you’ve manually locked a card’s price, Preview Prices won’t touch it. See the lock a price tutorial for more on that.
  • You can run it as often as you want. There’s no limit. Experiment freely.
  • Changes are local until the next sync. Preview Prices saves target prices in Hoard’s database. The prices don’t reach TCGplayer until Hoard runs a sync and imports the repricing CSV. Click Sync to TCGplayer Now after saving to trigger a sync sooner.