How to Automate Nerdslice

The pull box is the steadiest money in a comic shop

Nerdslice was built for one kind of shop: comic stores, game stores, and the many places that are both. A single Saturday in one of them runs six businesses off one register. A wall of new issues. A glass case of graded slabs. A rack of sealed board games nobody wants opened. Singles pulled from binders one card at a time. Table fees for a draft in the back room. A cooler of drinks by the door.

Underneath all of it sits the pull box, which is the closest thing a comic shop has to a subscription: a customer, a standing list of titles they collect, and a box with their name on it that gets filled every Wednesday whether they walk in or not. Those names are the most predictable week of the shop's month, and the file holding them is worth more than anything on the shelves. Nerdslice is where that file, the stock counts and the event roster all live.

New-comic day starts with an invoice to check

Wednesday the boxes land and the paperwork starts before the door opens. Somebody cuts the tape, counts what is actually in the carton against the distributor's invoice on a laptop beside it, and writes down the shortages, the overs and the three copies with dinged corners. That claim goes back on the distributor's site, on their clock, or the money is gone.

Then everything queued behind it. Final order cutoffs for books shipping in three months, sitting on an ordering site with a Thursday deadline. A promo kit allocation for next season, posted where only the organizer account can see it. Eleven slabs sent for grading in April, whose status is a submission number and a page that still says received. And the singles, hundreds of them, priced against a market that moved overnight while the binder did not.

Nerdslice

Shortages claimed inside the window The distributor invoice checked against what actually came out of the carton, so damages and missing copies are filed while the claim still counts.

Grading status without the forum Every open submission looked at each morning, so a customer hears their grade from the shop rather than from somebody else's thread.

Singles priced off this morning's market Binder prices set against live market numbers, so the handful of cards that actually moved are the only ones anybody has to open.

Card scanning ends at the shop's own shelf

Inside the shop Nerdslice covers more of this than most stores switch on, and it is worth using all of it. Comic Pull Lists handle pull box management, integrate with League of Comic Geeks, and generate the weekly pull box manifest rather than leaving somebody to rebuild it on a Tuesday night. The trading card side scans a card and returns market pricing at low, mid and high with grade options, so a buy-in across the counter gets priced in front of the customer instead of guessed at. Event Management takes tournament registrations, table fees and prize support payouts at the register and syncs them with player accounts, which in most shops is a clipboard. NerdPay runs the card processing behind the lot. That is a real specialist system, and a store using all four is ahead of the trade.

Where it stops is the front door. Each of those features works on what is already in the shop's own records, or on a source Nerdslice has wired in itself. The distributor's ordering and claims site is not one of them. Neither is the grading company's submission tracker, the organized play portal, or the marketplace a customer checks on their phone at the counter.

Allocations and grading queues can report themselves

A shop with those logins worked for it each morning gets its Wednesday back. The distributor invoice checked line by line against what was actually received, so a damage claim is filed while the window is open instead of the following month when it is not. Final order cutoffs collected off the ordering site into one dated list, so Thursday is not something remembered at four o'clock. Every open grading submission looked at each morning, so the customer waiting on a slab hears the grade from the shop first.

Promo kit and product allocations for the coming season read off the organized play portal and set beside the events already booked in Nerdslice, so a prerelease is not planned around a kit that was never allocated. Singles priced off this morning's market and compared with what the binder currently says, so the twenty cards that moved are the twenty a person opens. Preorder demand from the pull lists matched against what is still orderable, so a variant with forty names against it gets ordered at forty. No integration, no developer, and nothing a distributor has to agree to build first.

The buy list still gets signed off in the shop

A final order commits real money months ahead on a judgement about what will sell, and a shop that has traded ten years has an owner whose judgement beats any software. Nothing here touches that.

WebRun is an agent that works a real Chrome browser, signed in as you. It opens a distributor's ordering site, a grading submission tracker or an organized play portal, reads what is on the screen, and brings it back beside the pull lists, stock and events already in Nerdslice. Runs happen on a schedule you set, in your own private environment, and you can watch one and stop it part way. Submitting an order, repricing a case or messaging a subscriber is drafted and left for you. The workflows below name the sites each one opens.