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Specialist accounting for the trading card industry

The accounting & inventory system built for trading card businesses

Real-time profit, accurate inventory, consignment & breaks, and VAT-ready books — without spreadsheets. Finally know what every card actually made you.

For Whatnot, eBay & Shopify card sellers, breakers, consignors and card retailers.

Built around the platforms you sell on
WhatnoteBayShopifyTikTok ShopCardmarketXeroTCGplayerCard Ladder
The problem

Selling cards is easy. Knowing if you made money is hard.

Your sales live on three platforms. Your fees hide in payout reports. Consignor splits take hours. Your cost basis is in your head — and your spreadsheet broke two months ago.

Spreadsheets break at volume

Manual cost tracking falls apart the moment you’re moving real volume across breaks, Whatnot shows, eBay listings and Shopify orders.

Generic accountants don’t get cards

To most accountants, a PSA 10 slab and a £2 bulk card are the same line of “stock” — and consignment is a mystery. That mindset misprices your inventory and your tax.

Fees & splits eat invisible profit

Platform fees, shipping, refunds and consignor commissions hide in payout reports. Most sellers find out their real margin at tax time. Or never.

Why OTA exists

Generic bookkeeping was never built for this. It doesn’t understand that a graded slab and a bulk common are different assets, that a break is a hundred tiny sales, or that half your stock might belong to your consignors. So we built the system that does — finance-first, with an audit trail, by someone who actually sells cards.

Jordan Ellis, Founder, On Top Accounts

Graded trading cards

Why On Top

Built for sellers, breakers and consignors — not “modern businesses”

Your accountant doesn’t understand cards. Your inventory app doesn’t understand tax. OTA does both.

Designed for card sellers

From binders to breaks, OTA is built around how you actually buy, hold, split and sell cards.

A pipeline that protects your numbers

Every sale, purchase and import is validated — errors and duplicates are caught before they touch your books.

Live valuations built in

Pricing intelligence via Card Ladder and TCGplayer, so your stock value reflects the market — not last year’s guess.

Consignment & breaks, handled

Ownership, commissions and payouts calculated for you — with a statement each consignor can trust, and break-level P&L.

VAT-ready books, margin scheme aware

Clean, reconciled records posted into Xero — including the VAT margin scheme where it applies.

Real profit per sale

One profit formula across every platform and break: sale price minus every fee, split and cost.

How it works

Three steps to a card business you can actually see

Discovery call & platform review

30 minutes. We map your platforms, volumes, fees, breaks and consignors — and tell you exactly what we’d fix first.

Founder-led onboarding

We set OTA up around your real data — marketplace exports, purchase invoices and bank transactions — validated and reconciled from day one.

Monthly clarity

A live portal plus a monthly report in plain English: sales, true profit, inventory value, consignor payouts — posted into Xero.

Built finance-first

Numbers you can stake your business on

Before OTA opened its doors we deliberately attacked our own system with broken data, duplicates and edge cases — until everything was caught. Here’s what that means for you:

Reconciled to the pennyEvery sale, fee and payout is reconciled before you ever see it — not discovered at tax time.
Upload once. OTA handles the rest.Bad rows, duplicates and gaps are caught on the way in — never silently written into your books.
Your data stays yoursClient data is isolated and audit-trailed — verified before a single client came aboard.
Who it’s for

If you sell cards as a business, this was built for you

Whatnot sellersShow payouts reconciled, profit per stream.
eBay sellersFees, postage and refunds matched to every sale.
Shopify & TikTok storesStock and sales connected to real accounts.
BreakersBreak-level P&L at volume.
Consignment businessesPayouts and statements consignors trust.
Card shops & retailersOff the spreadsheet, onto a system.

Pricing that fits your business — agreed before you commit

Every seller’s volume, platforms and consignment mix differ, so we agree pricing on your free discovery call and lock it in writing before you commit. If OTA isn’t right for you, we’ll say so.

FAQ

Questions card sellers actually ask

Do you handle breaks and consignment?
Yes — both. Break-level P&L at volume, and full consignment tracking: ownership, commissions and payouts calculated for you, with a clear statement each consignor can trust.
Do you replace my accountant?
For most sellers we sit alongside: we run the card-business engine — inventory, profit, consignor payouts, books — and your accountant files returns from records they’ll finally enjoy receiving.
What about VAT?
We keep clean, VAT-ready records and post your monthly summary into Xero — including the VAT margin scheme where it applies to your business.
I sell across Whatnot, eBay and Shopify. Can you handle all three?
Yes — that’s the point. One profit formula across every platform and break, with fees, postage, refunds and splits matched to each sale.
How much time does it take me?
Onboarding aside, most of the work is ours. You send new purchase batches and exports; we import, validate and reconcile.
What does it cost?
Pricing is agreed on your free discovery call and locked in writing before you commit — based on your volume and what you need.

Find out what your card business is actually making

30 minutes. We map your platforms, fees, breaks and consignors — and tell you exactly what we’d fix first. No obligation, no hard sell.

Book a Free Discovery Call