We Deploy and Manage Pulltrader With You
Pulltrader Managed is a hands-on implementation and ongoing management service for established card shops and dealers that want Pulltrader deployed, configured, and run alongside them — not just handed to them.
Message from Ryan Gonzales, Founder & CEO
Built for established trading card businesses that are prepared to share their numbers, make changes, and do the work required to get Scout to Production Ready.
At a Certain Size, More Effort Stops Being the Answer
You have inventory. You have customers. You have sales volume.
But the business may still depend on you to make every important decision, solve every operational problem, manage every exception, and determine what should happen next.
As volume grows, small weaknesses become expensive.
Inventory becomes harder to understand. Aging product is easier to ignore. Employees develop their own processes. Marketplaces take more of the customer relationship. Fulfillment consumes more time. Margin disappears in places that are difficult to see.
Pulltrader Managed puts another experienced operator at the table.
We deploy Pulltrader and Scout into your business, then stay to manage the implementation — helping you step back from the daily noise, identify what is actually limiting the business, and work through those problems with you.
- Too much of the business still depends on the owner
- Inventory is growing faster than the systems around it
- Sales volume is high, but margins remain difficult to understand
- Different employees follow different processes
- Dead inventory is tying up cash and space
- Marketplace sales are strong, but direct customer relationships are weak
- Listing, intake, pricing, fulfillment, and consignment workflows do not scale cleanly
- The team remains busy without clear operating priorities
- New software is added without changing the underlying process
- The owner lacks someone who understands both the business and the trading card market
A Deployment Team, Not Just a Software Subscription
Pulltrader Business gives your company the software.
Pulltrader Managed gives you a team that deploys and manages that software with you.
We work with you to understand the business as it operates today, deploy Scout's agents and the required integrations, and establish the priorities that deserve attention first.
That involves Pulltrader's software — Storefront, POS, Scout agents, automations, and workflows. It may also involve changes to your processes, staffing, inventory strategy, customer experience, sales channels, fulfillment operation, and reporting.
The purpose is not to force every business into the same playbook.
The purpose is to get Scout to Production Ready in your business, then keep it there.
A 90-Day Deployment, Then an Ongoing Engagement
Required 90-Day Managed Deployment
Every Managed engagement begins with a required 90-Day Managed Deployment. Ninety days is the start of the relationship, not the end of the product.
- Complete onboarding and establish an operational baseline
- Connect the agreed business systems and integrations
- Deploy the contracted Scout agents
- Configure the included automations and workflows
- Train your team
- Review and improve operational and merchandising processes
- Prepare Scout for live, production use across your business
Ongoing Implementation & Strategy Sessions
Recurring scheduled sessions after deployment. These are not generic coaching calls — each session is tied to current operating priorities, decisions, implementation progress, or business performance.
Direct Communication
Direct access to your dedicated implementation and management team through scheduled sessions and ongoing guidance between meetings.
Dedicated Implementation & Management Team
A team responsible for deploying, configuring, and managing your Pulltrader implementation — not a single point of contact stretched across every customer.
Priority Support
Managed customers receive priority attention when implementing Pulltrader, introducing workflows, resolving issues, or adopting relevant new tools.
Pulltrader Business Included
Everything in the Business plan and 50,000 Scout Credits per month are included for the duration of the Managed engagement.
Until It Works™ Guarantee
We'll continue managing your implementation until Scout is Production Ready. Every Managed engagement begins with a required 90-Day Managed Deployment — if Scout has not reached Production Ready following that deployment, we'll continue providing the covered managed implementation services at no additional management fee until it is.
The Work Is Based on What Your Business Actually Needs
Inventory and Working Capital
Understand what you own, where it is, what is moving, and what is tying up capital without producing a return.
Pricing and Merchandising
Deploy clearer systems for pricing, repricing, promotions, offers, and deciding which inventory deserves attention.
Sales Channel Strategy
Determine what should be sold through your store, website, marketplaces, shows, social channels, or other distribution partners.
Direct Customer Growth
Build a stronger relationship with customers instead of allowing every transaction to begin and end on someone else's marketplace.
Storefront and Point of Sale
Connect the customer experience across online and in-store sales while improving access to useful operating data.
Intake and Consignment
Improve how inventory enters the business, how ownership is recorded, how items are prepared, and how consignors are managed.
Listing and Cross-Listing
Reduce repetitive work and deploy processes that allow the business to reach more buyers without creating more operational chaos.
Fulfillment
Improve picking, packing, shipping, exception handling, and the systems used to locate inventory accurately.
Team and Workflow
Clarify responsibilities, reduce owner dependence, document repeatable processes, and give employees a better system for knowing what comes next.
Margin and Performance
Create a clearer view of where the business makes money, where it loses money, and which activities deserve more or less attention.
Business Priorities
Turn a long list of possible projects into a smaller set of decisions and actions that can produce meaningful progress.
A Required Deployment, Then an Ongoing Relationship
- Step 1
Diagnose
We learn how the business operates today. This may include its inventory, team, systems, sales channels, customer experience, fulfillment process, margins, goals, and current constraints.
- Step 2
Deploy
We connect the agreed business systems, deploy your contracted Scout agents, and configure the included automations and workflows.
- Step 3
Train
We train your team, resolve problems that surface during implementation, and review the operating process end to end.
- Step 4
Manage
After the 90-Day Managed Deployment, the relationship continues through regular implementation and strategy sessions, direct communication, and ongoing management — until Scout is Production Ready, and after.
The 90-Day Managed Deployment is required for every Managed engagement. It is the beginning of the relationship, not the end of the product.
Built for Established Card Businesses
Managed is for stores, high-volume dealers, multi-channel sellers, and consignment operations already doing real volume. It's a fit if:
- You run an established card business with employees, inventory, and multiple sales channels
- Growth has outpaced your systems — the constraint is operational complexity, not motivation
- You want a dedicated team to deploy and manage Pulltrader with you, not just more software
- You'll share real numbers and actually make changes, not just talk about them
Not the Right Fit
Managed probably isn't for you if:
- You just need the software — Pulltrader Business already covers that
- You want a course, a content library, or someone to run the business for you
- You're early or hobby-stage and still deciding whether to sell seriously
- You want cheap, unlimited access or a guaranteed financial result
Built From the Work, Not From the Outside Looking In
Pulltrader is not a general consulting firm entering the trading card market.
Ryan has been in the hobby since he was a kid — collecting, selling, and playing TCGs like Pokémon and Magic the Gathering.
Since 2021, we have sold cards across marketplaces, direct transactions, consignment, and in-person sales, and dealt with the same inventory, listing, pricing, fulfillment, customer service, marketplace, cash-flow, and operational problems that card businesses encounter every day.
Ryan also brings more than 20 years of product design and revenue strategy across companies including Disney, FedEx, and venture-backed technology businesses.
Pulltrader Managed combines that operating experience with a platform being built specifically for trading card businesses.
The result is not generic advice.
It is a team that deploys and manages the systems required to run your business, from someone who understands the market and the operation.
Two Ways to Work With Pulltrader
| Pulltrader Business$300/month or $3,300/year | Pulltrader Managed$3,000/month | |
|---|---|---|
| Software platform access | ✓ | ✓ |
| Standard onboarding and product support | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scout Credits included each month | 1,000 | 50,000 |
| Required 90-Day Managed Deployment | — | ✓ |
| Dedicated implementation & management team | — | ✓ |
| Deployed Scout agents, automations & workflows | — | ✓ |
| Recurring implementation & strategy sessions | — | ✓ |
| Priority onboarding and support | — | ✓ |
| Until It Works™ Guarantee fulfillment | Implementation support | Managed implementation |
Pulltrader Managed
- Required 90-Day Managed Deployment
- Dedicated implementation and management team
- Deployed Scout agents, automations & workflows
- Recurring implementation and strategy sessions
- Priority onboarding and support
- Everything in Pulltrader Business
- 50,000 Scout Credits every month
- Until It Works™ Guarantee
Managed is intentionally limited because every customer works directly with a dedicated implementation and management team.
Pulltrader's Until It Works™ Guarantee
We do not consider our job finished until Scout is Production Ready.
We'll continue managing your implementation until Scout is Production Ready. Every Managed engagement begins with a required 90-Day Managed Deployment — if Scout has not reached Production Ready following that deployment, we'll continue providing the covered managed implementation services at no additional management fee until it is.
Get in Touch With the Pulltrader Team.
Tell us about your business by email, or call us to talk now. This is how the Managed engagement starts — there's no online checkout for Managed.
Straight answers.
Is Pulltrader Managed the same as the Business plan?
No. Pulltrader Business is the $300-per-month software plan with 2,000 Scout Credits — you run it yourself. Managed is a $3,000-per-month done-with-you service that includes Business, 50,000 Scout Credits per month, a dedicated implementation and management team, and a required 90-Day Managed Deployment.
Does the engagement end after 90 days?
No. The 90-Day Managed Deployment is a required onboarding and implementation period — connecting your systems, deploying Scout agents, configuring automations, and training your team. Managed is designed as an ongoing relationship that continues through regular sessions, direct communication, and continued management after deployment.
Why is the 90-Day Managed Deployment required?
Meaningful deployment needs time to connect systems, deploy agents, configure workflows, and train your team. The 90-day period is the minimum to do that responsibly and reach Production Ready.
How often will we meet?
Recurring implementation and strategy sessions, plus direct communication between meetings.
Will Pulltrader run our business for us?
No. We deploy and manage your Pulltrader implementation alongside your team — systems, agents, workflows, and process review. Your company still runs day-to-day operations and makes the decisions.
Do we need to already use Pulltrader?
No. Managed can begin with businesses that are not yet using the platform. Pulltrader Business is included in the engagement, and the required systems will be deployed as part of the 90-Day Managed Deployment.
Is this only for physical card stores?
No. Managed may also be appropriate for high-volume online dealers, consignment businesses, breakers, multi-channel sellers, and other established trading card operations.
What is Pulltrader's Until It Works™ Guarantee?
We do not consider our job finished until Scout is Production Ready. We'll continue managing your implementation until Scout is Production Ready. Every Managed engagement begins with a required 90-Day Managed Deployment — if Scout has not reached Production Ready following that deployment, we'll continue providing the covered managed implementation services at no additional management fee until it is. This guarantee does not provide a refund and does not guarantee revenue, profitability, or sales volume.
How do I get started with Managed?
There's no online checkout for Managed. Book a call or call 805-222-6997 to talk with our team before starting the 90-Day Managed Deployment.
What happens after the 90-Day Managed Deployment?
The relationship continues monthly at $3,000/month unless either party chooses not to renew, with ongoing management, optimization, strategy, and support.
You Have Already Proven You Can Sell Cards.
Now Let Us Deploy and Manage the Systems That Support the Volume.
Work directly with the Pulltrader team to deploy Scout, connect your systems, and manage the implementation behind your trading card business.
$3,000 per month. Book a call or call 805-222-6997. Pulltrader Business and 50,000 monthly Scout Credits included.