Free tool · for trading card & sports card collectors
Trading Card & Sports Card Collection Starter — Free
A free trading card and sports card collection spreadsheet. One card tab plus a short Read Me, and one row per card or lot: the game, the set, the card number, the name, whether it is raw, a slab, sealed or a lot, the condition or the grade, what you paid, and what it is worth today. It subtracts one from the other, per row and across the whole list, and it stops there. Four boxes along the top keep themselves current — rows logged, total paid, current value, and the difference between them. It opens in Excel and LibreOffice, imports to Google Sheets, and starts on fourteen invented example rows so you can see it working before you touch it.
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Direct download. No email, no account — just the files.
What it does
- One row per card or lot — game, set, card number, name, product type, condition, grade, quantity, what you paid and what it is worth now, with dropdowns on game, product type and condition so your entries stay consistent. Grade is free text, so you can write it the way you say it.
- Treats a slab, a raw card, a sealed box and a bulk lot as four kinds of thing you own, so the sealed boxes and bulk lots sitting alongside your single cards have somewhere to go.
- Keeps four figures live at the top: how many rows you have logged, what you paid for them, what they are worth today, and the gain or loss between the two.
- Comes pre-loaded with fourteen invented example rows across eight invented sets — two of them at a loss and one exactly level — so you can see the arithmetic working. Clear the cream cells across rows 11 to 24 to start your own, leaving the Gain / Loss column so its formula survives.
- Opens in Excel and LibreOffice and imports to Google Sheets in a few clicks — open a blank Sheet, then File > Import > Upload, and the Read Me spells it out. No macros, no signup, and the file itself sends nothing anywhere.
- Deliberately one card list, 100 rows and no valuation lookup: it subtracts what you typed from what you typed. The grade-or-sell-raw break-even, the true cost of a card out of a bulk lot, the sold-versus-still-held split, set completion, a dated value history, trade pricing, a want list and the one-page dashboard are all the paid workbook's job.
Related reading
- Free collection trackers The rest of the free one-tab starters, for the other things people collect.
- How to Catalog a Collection
- How to Downsize a Collection
- All collection trackers The paid workbooks in the Trackers line, for collections that have outgrown one tab.
Own it, don't rent it
Want to know whether that card is worth grading?
This free starter tells you what a collection cost and what it is worth. The full Trading Card Game & Sports Card Collection Tracker answers the two questions that decide what you do next. Grade it, or sell it raw: enter the raw comp, the grade you expect and the grading company, and it prices the graded card against the fee tier you chose with shipping in both directions in the sum, then gives you the break-even raw price a card has to clear before grading can pay — and a verdict, not a hint. And what a card really cost: one bulk buy splits across the cards that came in it by relative value, with shipping in and grading folded into each card's basis, so a gain is money you actually made rather than price minus price. Around those two: cards you have sold leave what the collection is worth today while your lifetime realized profit still counts them, set completion runs off a target count you enter yourself so it works for any game and any promo or regional printing, every value becomes its own dated row with the source it came from, a trade board prices a swap from both sides, and a dashboard splits the whole collection by game, by product type, by grade band and graded against raw. Twelve tabs for Excel, Google Sheets and LibreOffice, three PDFs, and a one-click Google Sheets copy.
A one-time purchase you keep — the owned workbook between a blank spreadsheet and a collecting app you rent.
A personal collection log — not an appraisal, a price guide, an authentication or investment advice. It counts what you type in, and neither this starter nor the paid workbook looks up, fetches or estimates what anything is worth. No spreadsheet can tell you what grade a card will come back as, and grading fees change and differ by company and by declared value. Condition grading is a market convention rather than a standard. Ardent Workshop is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any grading company, marketplace, game publisher, sports league or team; grading-company and game names identify which scale or hobby is meant, nothing more. Every card, set, player and figure in the worked example is invented. Free to use; please don't resell or redistribute.