Kronozio retired its marketplace in October 2025. Kronocard, its scanning and inventory software, is a separate product and it's still live. This page covers the difference, where displaced sellers are actually going, and how to run pricing and inventory once you land somewhere new.
Kronozio retired its marketplace on October 14, 2025. This wasn't a quiet shutdown or a company running out of money — Kronozio framed it as a deliberate pivot, and gave a specific reason: by their own account, roughly 95% of collectors now sell through eBay, Whatnot, Walmart Marketplace, and Shopify rather than a standalone card marketplace. Rather than compete for the remaining 5%, Kronozio closed the marketplace side of the business.
That's worth taking at face value. It's a market-share argument about where collectors already are, not a claim that selling cards online got harder or that Kronozio's own execution failed.
The part that closed is the marketplace: the place buyers browsed and bought from Kronozio sellers directly. Kronocard, the scanning and inventory software, is a separate product, and it's still live. It's had active updates as recently as June 2026. If you were using Kronocard for intake — identifying cards, tracking condition, building your inventory list — none of that stopped working. What stopped is the storefront that sold what Kronocard helped you catalog.
That distinction matters for what you actually need to replace. If Kronozio was your only sales channel, you need a new place to list and sell. If Kronozio was mainly your inventory and scanning layer with the marketplace as a secondary outlet, you may only need a new place to sell — not a new way to catalog your cards.
Kronozio's own stated reasoning points at eBay, Whatnot, Walmart Marketplace, and Shopify — general resale and livestream channels, not card-specific marketplaces. That's a real option if your inventory skews toward the kind of collectibles those platforms move well.
If you're selling singles at any real volume, the card-specific marketplaces are worth weighing on their own terms: TCGplayer, eBay, and Cardmarket are the three sellers compare most often. We don't have a stake in eBay or Cardmarket — Hoard operates on TCGplayer only — so the neutral four-way comparison of TCGplayer, eBay, Cardmarket, and Mana Pool is worth reading before picking a destination, including the places we couldn't confirm a current fee number and said so.
Hoard doesn't replace what Kronozio's marketplace did — it isn't a marketplace, and it doesn't list or sell cards on your behalf. What it does is the operations layer that any seller needs once inventory is sitting on TCGplayer: automated repricing that runs on a schedule instead of a manual login, inventory sync across all 25 games TCGplayer carries, and pull-sheet handling for getting orders out the door once they start coming in on the new channel.
If you're weighing TCGplayer against the other tools sellers reach for once they're set up there, the full index of TCGplayer seller-tool alternatives covers repricers, sync bridges, and full platforms in one place, and the broader comparison of Hoard against marketplace-native and all-in-one tools lays out where each one wins.
Hoard isn't a scanning app, and it doesn't identify cards from a photo. If you're keeping Kronocard for intake, there's no conflict — Kronocard handles identification and cataloging, Hoard handles pricing and sync once those cards are listed on TCGplayer. The two aren't competing for the same job, and sellers who liked Kronocard's scanning workflow can keep using it alongside a different marketplace and a different pricing tool.
No. Only the marketplace closed, on October 14, 2025. Kronocard, the scanning and inventory software, remains live and has continued to receive updates, including a release in June 2026.
Kronozio's stated reason is that roughly 95% of collectors already sell through eBay, Whatnot, Walmart Marketplace, and Shopify rather than a standalone card marketplace, and the company chose to stop competing for the remainder rather than continue operating the storefront.
Kronozio itself points toward eBay, Whatnot, Walmart Marketplace, and Shopify. For sellers focused on card singles specifically, TCGplayer and Cardmarket are also worth weighing — see the neutral four-way marketplace comparison linked above.
Yes. Kronocard is a separate product from the marketplace and continues to operate independently. You can use it to scan and catalog inventory regardless of where you eventually list and sell.
No. Hoard doesn't list or sell cards, and it isn't a marketplace. It's an operations layer — repricing, inventory sync, and pull handling — for sellers on TCGplayer. If you move your selling to TCGplayer, Hoard covers that operational side; it doesn't replace the storefront itself.
Connect a TCGplayer store and get a free read on market coverage, underpriced listings, and movers — before you decide where the rest of your inventory lands.
Get started freeSources: Kronozio marketplace retirement notice and stated rationale, October 2025 · Kronocard release notes, June 2026 · TCGplayer vs. eBay vs. Cardmarket vs. Mana Pool