For shop software and apps
Card data inside your product, under your name
Point-of-sale, inventory, collection and listing tools: give your users card data and prices as part of your product, metered per user and branded as yours.
The situation
Why this usually stalls
If your software serves card shops or collectors, card data is not a feature you can skip. Buying it on one account works until your users want API access of their own, or until you need to know which of them is costing you money.
A partner account gives every one of your users their own key, on your domain, with its own limit and its own usage. You can include data in your subscription, sell it as an add-on, or pass it straight through.
What changes
What Reseller API gives you here
Per-user metering
Each user's calls are counted on their own key, so you price data the way you price everything else.
Your domain, your docs
Users who want API access get it from you, under your name.
Every game your users sell
9 games, sealed product, condition prices and buylist prices on Magic.
Prices your users can trust
Every quote says which market it came from, in its own currency, and why a missing one is missing.
An example
Counterline
A fictional reseller api partner, to make the numbers concrete.
- A point-of-sale app for card shops
- Data included in the shop plan
- A key per shop for its own website
- Revenue
- $2,250
- Reseller API platform fee
- − $249
- Wholesale usage, at most
- − $525
- Kept, every month
- $1,476
Your numbers
Now try yours
Your customer count, your price and what they would use.
40
Your price, your decision.
10,000
- Your revenue
- $1,560/mo
- Platform fee
- $249/mo
- Wholesale usage
- $280/mo
- You keep
- $1,031/mo
Pays for itself from 8 customers. The $1,000 setup fee is back in under a month.
Usage at $0.70 per 1,000 credits, assuming every customer uses their whole allowance, which is the most it can cost you. Before your own payment processing fees and taxes. The setup fee is paid once and is not in the monthly figures.
Who does what
You bring the customers
Everything behind the API is ours to run.
We run
Everything behind your API- Card data for 9 games, 212,448 printings, with new sets added as they release
- Prices from Cardmarket, TCGplayer, Card Kingdom and Manapool, refreshed daily, and graded prices by grade
- Matching every printing to its own listing on each market
- The API, the servers, scaling and uptime
- Image hosting and delivery
- Keys, rate limits and abuse protection
- Second-line support: anything about the data, and every outage
You run
Everything your customers see- Your name, your logo and your domain
- Your plans and what you charge for them
- Finding customers and signing them up
- First-line support for your customers
- With white-label, the Stripe account your customers pay into
Launch
Live in 5 business days
The clock starts once you have sent your name, logo and colours and the DNS records we send you are in place. If your API is not live 5 business days later, we refund the setup fee in full and you owe us nothing.
- Day 001
Order
Choose a programme and pay the setup fee. It takes about five minutes, and nothing is charged again until your API is live.
- → Programme chosen
- → Setup fee paid
- → Order reference issued
- Day 102
Send your brand
Your name, logo, colours and the domain you want. We send back the DNS records to add at your domain provider, which is copy and paste.
- → Name, logo and colours
- → api.yourbrand.com
- → DNS records added
- Days 2 to 403
We build it
Your API, keys and error pages on your domain. With white-label, also your portal, documentation, pricing page and Stripe connection. Every endpoint is tested on your domain before you see it.
- → TLS certificate issued
- → Docs written with your name
- → Every endpoint tested
- Day 504
You launch
You get your partner dashboard and your first customer can sign up the same day. From here, the data and the servers are our problem.
- → Partner dashboard
- → First customer key
- → Monthly fee starts
Programmes
Every way in, priced
Reseller API
Our API on your domain, for a product you build yourself.
$1,000setup, once
then $249 a month from launch
- Usage
- $0.70 per 1,000 credits, pooled across your customers
- For
- Developers, agencies and software companies with their own front end
- The full API on your domain, api.yourbrand.com
- API keys with your prefix, issued to your customers
- Customer accounts, per-customer credit limits and usage
- Errors, links and image URLs that carry your name, not ours
- All 9 games, every printing, four markets and graded prices
- REST and GraphQL, images never metered
- 99.95% uptime commitment
- Live in 5 business days, or your setup fee back
White-label API
TurnkeyA complete card data business under your name: portal, docs and billing included.
$2,500setup, once
then $499 a month from launch
- Usage
- $0.70 per 1,000 credits, pooled across your customers
- For
- Founders, shops and communities who want their own API without building one
- Everything in Reseller API
- Your developer portal: sign-up, dashboard, keys and usage
- Your documentation, with your name and your domain in every example
- Your plans and prices, on your own pricing page
- Customers pay you directly, into your own Stripe account
- Account emails in your name, from your domain
- Set up with you, step by step, by the people who run the API
Data licence
Store, display and pass on our data from your own systems.
from$2,000a month
Annual agreement.
- Usage
- A flat fee, not metered per call
- For
- Marketplaces, price guides and platforms that need the catalogue in their own database
- The right to store the full catalogue and its prices in your own database
- Serve it to your users from your own systems: your API, your feeds, your exports
- A flat licence fee instead of per-call metering
- Daily price history and signed price webhooks
- Graded prices by grading company and grade
- A named contact for anything about the data
FAQ
Questions from shop software and apps
Your API could be live next week
Live in 5 business days, or your setup fee back. The clock starts once you have sent your name, logo and colours and the DNS records we send you are in place. If your API is not live 5 business days later, we refund the setup fee in full and you owe us nothing.
Questions first? hello@tcggraph.com