How To Use Mochiago

Quick Start

Pilot

Mochiago is a pilot tool for collectible inventory, photos, recognition, pricing, storage tracking, vendor browsing, reservations, and show-day deal tracking. The system is improving as more examples are captured and reviewed.

The fastest workflow is: capture a front photo, optionally capture a back photo, review the result, correct anything wrong, store the item, then publish it after photo review approval.

Dashboard

Use the Dashboard to browse your active collection. You can switch between Pokemon and Coins, grouped views and A-Z views, open an item, update prices, and remove multiple items from the active collection.

Photo Station

Use Photo Station to add inventory. Choose item type or Auto Detect, enter storage location and notes, then capture from a phone or PC camera. Captures become inventory records after processing.

Price Checker

Use Price Checker for quick lookup photos that should not become inventory. This is useful at shows when you want a fast estimate without adding the item to your collection.

Storage

Use Storage to organize items by case, box, row, or location. You can rename or merge locations, move checked items to another location, and bulk remove checked items from the active collection.

Phone Camera Workflow

Open the phone camera page from Photo Station or Price Checker. The phone supplies the camera image, while the main computer page can request captures, refresh the preview, and show the latest processed result.

The phone preview may pause after inactivity to reduce heat and battery use. If the camera times out, use the resume/start camera control on the phone, then refresh the computer preview if needed.

Zoom is controlled from the phone camera page. The captured image should match the zoomed view, and the system then tries to crop the card or slab from that image.

Photo Quality

For best results, use a stable stand and bright even lighting. A photo studio light box, such as a Syscloud photo studio light box, is a good setup because it reduces glare, shadows, and background clutter.

Place the item flat and centered. For slabs, keep the label and full slab visible. For raw cards, keep all card edges visible. Avoid cutting off the bottom edge because set numbers, cert numbers, and card details often live near the bottom.

Cleaner photos make recognition faster and more accurate. Poor photos can still be useful, but they are more likely to need manual review.

Recognition Is A Helper, Not A Guarantee

Automatic recognition uses image matching, OCR, cropping, and pricing lookups. It can identify many PSA slabs, PCGS slabs, raw Pokemon cards, and variants, but it is not perfect.

Some variants, stamps, reverse holo patterns, Master Ball or Poke Ball variants, foreign-language cards, odd crops, glare, and blurry cert numbers may need manual correction. Always review important cards before relying on the result.

Manual Correction

If an item is wrong or says it needs review, open the capture detail page and edit the fields. You can manually enter card name, set, number, variant, grade, cert number, year, denomination, storage location, pricing override, cost, and notes where available.

Manual correction is the backup path when the automatic tools are unsure. After saving the correct data, the system can use that corrected record for inventory, display, pricing, and future training examples.

Cropping And Rotation

The system tries to crop the outside of a slab or raw card automatically. If the crop is wrong, use the manual crop option on the item page to resize the crop box and rotate the image in 90 degree steps.

Manual crop is useful when the stand, background, or light box edge confuses the automatic crop. Save the crop only when the full item is visible and important text is not cut off.

If a photo is too blurry, cut off, upside down, or taken from the wrong distance, use redo capture instead of trying to force a bad image.

Front And Back Photos

You can add a back photo for a slab, coin, or raw card. The item detail page can show both front and back images. Back photos are optional, but they are useful for slabs, raw card condition checks, and records of expensive items.

Photo Review And Publishing

New inventory photos are held for review before they are visible to other users. Admins use Review or Notifications to approve photos. Approved photos become visible according to the vendor's collection settings.

Rejected or reported photos stay in review buckets so they can be checked later.

Vendors, Privacy, And Access

Vendors can make their collection public, invite-only, or local-radius based. Radius access uses ZIP or postal code distance from the vendor's configured ZIP. Invited users can view private collections after approval.

The Vendors page shows vendor cards, access status, and a request access button for private or radius-limited collections. Vendors approve or decline requests from Notifications or Settings.

Vendors can choose whether to show their contact email publicly.

Reservations And Trade Desk

Reservations let users request items from a vendor. Vendors can accept, reject, counter, or record a sale. Mochiago records the workflow, but users and vendors handle payment, meetup details, trades, and deal terms directly.

The Trade Desk supports selling from your collection and intake of another person's collection. These tools are intended for card shows, trade nights, and vendor recordkeeping.

Price Data

Prices can come from configured providers and may change over time. Some cards or grades may not have a price. Users and vendors are responsible for checking whether the price, variant, condition, and grade are correct.

If a provider price looks wrong, use a price override while keeping the original provider data available for reference.

Keep Improving The System

This page is meant to grow as the pilot grows. If a workflow is confusing, a page needs better wording, or a capture type needs a different process, the guide can be updated alongside the app.