Studio software for collectible card restorers

Most people who restore collectible cards work with four tools that never talk to each other: photos arrive on WhatsApp, quotes are rewritten in Word, the numbers live in a spreadsheet and the report is written by hand in the evening. A report done that way takes more than an hour for a single card.

Registro brings all of this into one place, and organises it the way the work is actually done: card by card.

Why software built only for card restoration

Generic business software stops at the customer and the job. But in a restoration studio the work does not live on the job: it lives on the single card, which has its own defects, its own photographs and its own treatments.

That is why Registro has three levels:

• the client is the person, with their language and the history of everything they have entrusted to you;
• the commission is the batch of cards they sent you, with its shipping, its payment and its status;
• the card is where the work is: condition on arrival, defects marked on the photo, treatment plan, work done, before and after.

Try marking eleven defects on one photograph in a workshop CRM: it is not that it does it badly, it simply has nowhere to put them.

What Registro does, feature by feature

Quotes from your own price list

The defects you find are always the same: edge whitening, scratches on the coating, corner creases, dents, stains, glue residue. In Registro they form a catalogue, and each entry carries your price, your time, your difficulty and your risk level, set once. The quote builds itself while you look at the photos: mark the defect, pick the level, and the total and timing follow. The details are on the page about restoration quotes.

A file for every card

Every card has its own file: identity (set, number, language, edition), defects numbered and placed on the photograph, a treatment plan with the risk stated before you start, the procedures carried out, final photos framed like the first ones. Annotations sit on top of the photo, in layers: the original is never touched.

Photos from your phone with a QR code

From the card file you generate a QR code, scan it with your phone and shoot the front, back and details. The photos land in the file open on your computer while you work, already resized.

Reports with your branding

The report is written from the files you have already filled in: for every defect the outcome (resolved, improved, unchanged, not treated) and, when you chose not to intervene, the reason. It comes out as a PDF with your logo, your colours, your signature and your stamp, in the client's language. What a report should contain is explained on the page about the restoration report.

Commissions, shipping and payments

Every commission moves through ten phases, from request to closing, and you always see the next action. Outbound and return shipping with carrier, tracking and insurance. Payments are recorded (who, when, how much, which method) and exported for your accountant.

Your public request page

Every studio has its own address, for example registrotcg.com/studio-name. The client picks a language, looks up the cards in the catalogue, uploads photos from the phone and verifies their email with a six-digit code, without creating an account. You decide what to require: a minimum number of cards, macro shots of the defects, a mandatory declared value.

The client area

Clients follow the status of their cards, accept quotes and download documents in their own area. They only see what you decide to show them: your internal notes stay yours.

What Registro does not do

• It does not promise grading outcomes. Estimates stay estimates, and every document that contains one says so.
• It does not show market prices. The value of a card is declared by the client.
• It does not analyse photos with AI. You recognise the defects: the speed comes from the catalogue, not from software that guesses.
• It does not issue invoices. It records payments and exports the summary; your accounting software issues the invoice.

What it costs

You pay according to the commissions you open each month, with monthly tiered plans, VAT included. Studio staff are always unlimited: charging per user would push you to let people work under your account, the opposite of what a traceable archive needs. Current prices are on the home page; the trial lasts 14 days on the most complete plan, with no credit card.

Weighing it up against spreadsheets and chat? There is an honest comparison in Registro or a spreadsheet.

Frequently asked questions

Which card games does it work for?

Any card: you can always enter the details by hand. For Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, Dragon Ball and Digimon the client can also look the card up in public catalogues, so set, number and image are filled in for them.

Do I need to install anything?

No. Registro runs in the browser, on computer and phone. The screens you use with gloves on (photos, logging treatments) are designed for the phone, with large buttons and few actions.

Does it work if I work alone?

Yes, it was designed for that first. Staff accounts are an option, not a requirement, and cost nothing extra.

Do my clients have to sign up?

No. They fill in the request on your page without an account and verify their email with a code. With the same code they later enter their area to follow their cards.

Which languages do documents come out in?

Italian, English, French, German and Spanish. The client picks the language at the start of the request, and from then on emails and documents about them come out in that language. Text from the catalogue translates itself; free notes you write stay in the language you wrote them in.

Does Registro promise a grade?

No, and it never will. It documents what you found, what you did and what you chose not to do: valuation estimates are labelled as such on every document.