Your Collection

The Collection is where everything you own lives. This page covers the things you'll do most: adding items, keeping them organized, and understanding the value Sereal shows you.

Scopes on this surface

The Collection surface — where Inventory in the nav lands — is organized by a scope switcher at the top:

• Collection — your sorted, reviewed holdings (the default).
• Intake — the triage queue for owned product you haven't sorted yet, and where imports and photo uploads arrive. See Importing.
• All Owned — everything you own across scopes in one list.
• By Box — the same items grouped by their box.

Switching scopes keeps you on the same surface, so you never lose your place.

Add a card or comic

From Collection, choose Add Card or Add Comic.

• Cards capture player, year, set/product, card number, parallel, serial number, and grade (graded or raw).
• Comics capture title, issue number, publisher, and grade — with a pressing toggle for books headed to a presser before grading.

Use Save + Add Another when you're entering a stack, and Save + Done for a one-off. As you type, fields like player, team, and manufacturer suggest values you've used before, so your data stays consistent.

Find things fast

• Medium toggle — switch between All, Cards, and Comics.
• Search and filters — narrow by sport, numbered/parallel, condition, era, publisher, and key issues.
• Stale comps / Needs detail — quick filters that surface items whose comp has gone stale or that are missing key metadata, so you can clean them up in a pass.
• Per page — control how many rows load at a time.
• Table or grid — the grid is image-led for browsing; the table is dense for working.

Switching the medium toggle resets the other medium's filters on purpose — phantom filters you can't see are worse than re-applying the ones you can.

Organize with boxes

Every item belongs to a box — Rookies, PC, Graded, Listed, a Longbox, and so on. Boxes are color-coded throughout the app, so a glance tells you where something lives. Manage your box list in Settings.

Understand the value Sereal shows

Each item carries two numbers that should never be confused:

• Cost basis — what you paid. Fixed.
• Current value — derived from recent sold comps. Updated as comps refresh.

Conditional formatting flags when an item's last comp drifts from its cost, and when a comp has gone stale — your cue to refresh it. Items pulled from a sealed box show a $0 cost basis because the box itself is already counted in your Spend Log; this keeps Total In from double-counting.

Example cards

A brand-new account starts with two example cards — a raw Luka Doncic Prizm and a graded Ken Griffey Jr. They exist so you can see how Sereal works before you've entered anything: open the raw one and the Grading Flip Check is already filled in with comps, population, and a real recommendation.

They're labeled Example wherever they appear, and they never count as yours:

• Excluded from every total — Items, Total Cost, Net P/L, and your dashboard figures. On a new account the summary bar reads Items 0 even though two rows are listed below it. That's intentional.
• Excluded from exports, worklists, the Sell Desk, and duplicate detection, so importing your own Luka Prizm won't be flagged as already owned.
• Not editable, and not individually deletable.

Getting rid of them

Use Remove sample cards in the Collection toolbar. It's there for as long as the examples exist — including after you've started adding your own items — so you don't have to clear them before getting started.

Removal is permanent. The examples won't come back on your next visit, and there's no way to restore them, so remove them when you're done looking rather than as a first step.

One thing that surprises people: the prompt on the empty dashboard disappears once you add your first item. That's expected — the panel is part of the empty state. The Remove sample cards button in the Collection toolbar stays put.

Intake: reviewing pending comps

When comps refresh, results that need attention land in Intake for a quick look before they change your item — because comp data isn't always reliable (few or no recent sales, an AI-misread card number, or a different parallel). Some results carry a suggested value; others found no or too few qualifying sales to suggest one.

Each result shows one of three outcomes:

• Ready to apply — enough matching sales; safe to apply in one click.
• Needs review — flagged as worth a look, for example when the value drifts from other recent sales.
• No or too few matches — not enough qualifying sales to suggest a value confidently.

When the list gets long, the section collapses to a header with count chips — Ready, Needs Review, and a third chip (currently labeled Reject) that counts everything which is neither Ready nor Needs Review. It auto-collapses when the queue is large and remembers whether you left it open or closed for the rest of your session.

Depending on the result, you may be able to Apply, Review, or Reject:

• Apply — updates the item's current value from the comp and clears its Stale flag.
• Review — opens the matching sales so you can inspect them before deciding.
• Reject — dismisses this suggestion without changing your item's saved comp value. For roughly 30 days, automatic and bulk comp refreshes skip the item before reconsidering it; refresh the item manually to reconsider it immediately.

Item detail

Open any item to edit every field, upload front/back photos, verify a PSA or CGC cert, and follow the Comp Link straight to the matching eBay sold search.

Next

When you're ready to start acquiring, head to Scouting & deals.