Live Pricing System

TCG Importer Live Pricing Guide

Learn how automated live pricing works inside TCG Importer, including price syncing, safety net protection, markup rules, currency conversion, rounding logic, and how to safely automate your Shopify TCG pricing.

Core Feature

What is Live Pricing?

Live Pricing allows imported TCG cards to automatically update based on the latest market pricing data.

Instead of manually updating thousands of products yourself, TCG Importer can monitor pricing and automatically update your Shopify product prices for you.

Automatically updates pricing after import.
Works with markup rules and safety nets.
Supports Shopify currency conversion.
Ideal for singles and fast-moving card markets.

How Live Pricing Sync Works

When a card has Live Pricing enabled, TCG Importer stores a reference to that imported product and periodically checks for updated pricing data.

Example Live Pricing Flow

Market price detected $18.50

20% markup applied $22.20

Rounded to .95 $22.95

Final Shopify price $22.95

The sync system always works using the normal calculated price first, before any rounding or .95/.99 endings are applied.

Markup Rules

Markup rules allow you to automatically increase imported prices by a percentage before the product is updated in Shopify.

Markup can be applied globally during import.
Markup can be disabled entirely if preferred.
Final price is recalculated every sync cycle.
Markup works before rounding rules are applied.

Safety Net Protection

Safety Net pricing protects your products from dropping below a minimum price when market prices decrease.

Example Safety Net

Current market price $7.50

Safety net configured $10.00

Final Shopify price $10.00

Safety Net pricing only affects products with Live Pricing enabled.

Price Rounding

Rounding rules make imported pricing cleaner and more professional inside Shopify.

Round to nearest $1, $5, or $10.
Optional .95 or .99 endings.
Applied after the main pricing calculation.
Keeps update logic accurate while improving storefront pricing.

Example Rounding

Calculated price $5.26

Nearest $1 rule $6.00

.95 ending $6.95

Currency Conversion

TCG Importer automatically converts imported pricing into your configured Shopify store currency.

Supports international Shopify stores.
Converts pricing before markup and rounding.
Helps maintain consistent pricing worldwide.

Manual Prices vs Live Pricing

Manual prices should generally be used when you do not want future pricing updates to affect a product.

If Live Pricing is enabled, future syncs may overwrite manual pricing changes depending on your import configuration.

Use manual pricing for promos and fixed campaigns.
Use Live Pricing for market-driven singles.
Use Safety Nets when automating expensive inventory.

Best Practices

The best Live Pricing setup depends on how aggressively you want pricing automation to work inside your Shopify store.

Enable Live Pricing for singles where prices change frequently.
Use markup rules to protect margins.
Use Safety Nets for expensive inventory.
Use rounding rules for cleaner storefront pricing.
Review large imports before publishing to sales channels.

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