Our Story

Built at
the counter.

TopLoader was built while actively working the buy desk at Box Buster Sports Cards. It wasn't a side project based on imagined workflows — it was the tool we needed that afternoon, for the customer standing at the counter.

Where It Started

Box Buster Sports Cards.

A real shop. Daily buy desk traffic. Customers walking in with binders, boxes, and collections — all needing a fair offer, fast. The old workflow was manual: market lookups, mental math, scribbled notes. It was slow, and it was inconsistent.

The bigger problem wasn't speed. It was accuracy. One deal priced at the wrong rate — one item that should have flagged a warning but didn't — could cost more than weeks of software fees. And there was no record of what happened after the customer left, so when something went wrong, nobody could trace it.

TopLoader started as a solution to those specific problems, at that specific shop. Every feature exists because someone at Box Buster actually needed it.

Built in Production

We don't ship features until they've run at Box Buster. That's not a marketing claim — it's literally how development works. A feature gets designed, gets used on the floor, and only goes out to other shops after we're confident it works under real conditions.

The bugs we fix are ones we hit ourselves, usually mid-deal with a customer waiting at the counter. There's no better quality control than that.

The Mission

Purpose-built tools for card and resale shops — not generic SaaS with a hobby skin on top, and not a spreadsheet with extra steps. Software that understands how a buy desk runs: the pace, the margin math, the way a team splits the work.

Shops using TopLoader don't have to adapt their workflow to the software. The software was adapted to their workflow first.

What TopLoader Does
DEALS

The buy desk, end to end.

Customer walks in, you open a deal, prices calculate against your configured rate tiers, warnings surface if anything looks off. Finalize it and the receipt is out, inventory is updated, and the deal is locked in the log. Under three minutes. Every time, consistent, with a full audit trail.

VENDOR MODE

Your show booth from your phone.

Card shows are a different workflow — buying on the floor, selling out of inventory you brought, tracking what actually moved. Vendor Mode handles all of it from a mobile-first interface. See your P&L the moment the show ends.

SLABTRACK

Grading submissions without the spreadsheet.

If you submit cards to PSA, BGS, or other graders on behalf of customers, SlabTrack tracks every card from intake to cert number — with customer notifications when grades come back. No more manually checking submission portals or losing track of who owns what.

Who It's For

You run a card or collectibles shop. Your team prices deals all day. You do card shows. You send slabs to graders. You've been making it work with spreadsheets, mental math, and a notebook behind the counter.

—Shop owners running a full buy desk
—Staff who price deals under pressure
—Shops that do shows and need a floor tool
—Anyone managing grading submissions for customers
The Builder

I'm Gage. I work at Box Buster Sports Cards and built TopLoader while actively running the buy desk. I'm not a founder who interviewed shop owners and built what they described. I'm someone who had the problem, built the tool, and now runs it daily.

The shops using TopLoader today are shaping what gets built next. Requests come from working shops and get tested behind a real counter before they ship — that's what keeps the software honest.

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