# Get started with TCG STATS

Set up your account, add your first cards and prepare your first sale.

> Documentation index: https://tcgstats.com/docs/llms.txt

TCG STATS keeps your cards, marketplace listings and orders together. You enter a card once, then decide where you want to sell it.

## Before you begin

Have these ready:

- the email address you want to use for TCG STATS;
- the name of the place where your cards are stored;
- a few cards you can use for your first test;
- login details for a marketplace, if you want to connect one now.

You do not need product codes, API knowledge or a finished spreadsheet.
If you do have a spreadsheet (CSV) already, you have use this in our importer.

## Your setup route

Follow these guides in order:

1. [Create your account](/docs/get-started/create-account)
2. [Create a location](/docs/get-started/create-location)
3. [Add your first cards](/docs/get-started/add-inventory)
4. [Connect a marketplace](/docs/get-started/connect-marketplace)
5. [Create your first listing](/docs/get-started/first-listing)
6. [Process your first order](/docs/get-started/first-order)

## The three parts of TCG STATS

### Inventory

Inventory is what you physically own and acts as your source of truth for your inventory. A card can only be sold while enough quantity is available in inventory.

### Listings

A listing is the sale offer customers view. One inventory item can have listings on more than one marketplace.

### Orders

Orders arrive after a sale. TCG STATS uses them to reserve or remove the sold quantity so you can not sell the same card twice.

> Start small. Add two or three cards and complete the whole flow before importing your full stock.

Source: https://tcgstats.com/docs/get-started