Managing Trades

By default, the "Trades" ('/etcg/trades.php') page will show all pending trades for your active TCGs (the counter in the navigation shows total trades, including those from hiatus/inactive TCGs). If you click "trades" within the sidebar navigation (which appears after selecting a TCG to manage from the dropdown menu), it will show trades only for the currently selected TCG.

Trade requests submitted via the tradeform.php that came with your EasyTCG download will be automatically added to the database, and can be seen on this page under the "incoming" headers. You can also manually add pending trades by clicking "New Pending Trade" under the appropriate TCG's header.

• Trading Cards: The cards that you are trading away. The categories that these cards were pulled from should be defined so that they are still added to your card worth. They will also be replaced in these categories should you cancel the trade.
• Receiving Cards: The cards that you will be receiving from the trade. Select a category from the drop down menu to define the category that the cards should be sent to should the trade be completed.
• Grab From Categories: Selecting this option when you add a new pending trade will enable the "grab" feature, which will search for the cards defined in the 'trading cards' field, remove them from the card categories, and add them to the pending trade. If a card is not found, it will display an error and the pending trade will be added without the card.
• Email Cards: This option will appear for pending trades where the trader's email has been supplied. If this option is selected, the trader will be emailed when you click "complete trade" with an overview of the trade and URL links to their new cards.
• UPDATE Button: This button will update the data for the trade and add any new fields that you have defined.
• COMPLETE TRADE Button: The pending trade and all 'trading' cards will be removed, and receiving cards will be added to the indicated categories. If that category has the AUTO feature enabled, the images will be uploaded as well. If collecting is selected as the category, cards are added to a collecting deck with a matching name. If no collecting deck is found with a matching name, a new collecting deck is created. (*)
  • * Do NOT rely on this feature if you can help it. The way that the script generates the deck name from the card name is not fool proof, and the settings may not be what you were expecting. Set up the collecting deck yourself through the Collecting Decks manager FIRST.
• REMOVE TRADE Button: The pending trade will be removed and 'trading' cards are replaced in their categories.