Roca Sifter: How It Fits Into Your Workflow

For sellers managing large volumes of inventory, the hardest part isn’t listing items, but identifying what is worth the most attention. High-value inventory can sit untouched while you manually sort through piles of cards, slowing down the process and delaying listings.

The Roca Sifter is designed to fit seamlessly into your existing workflow, helping you identify value faster, reduce manual effort, and streamline every step of the process from intake to listing. When paired with the Roca Sorter for secondary support, it becomes a scalable system that transforms how you run your business.

Where the Roca Sifter Fits in Your Workflow
A typical seller workflow looks something like this: intake, identification, organization, listing. The identification process can be slow, manual work that takes valuable time away from trade-ins, backlog, and listing. That’s where the Roca Sifter comes in.

Intake
Cards arrive via trade-ins, purchases, backlog, or events. With its compact design, the Roca Sifter is the perfect travel companion for trade shows, conventions, or at-the-counter intake.

Identification
Quickly identify cards by price, foil, color, type, rarity and more at up to 1,800 cards per hour. Sift your inventory to identify the cards that have enough value to be profitable. You can even sift through a customer's trade-in collection right at the counter to quickly assess which cards to purchase for resale.

With the Roca Sifter you can:

• Identify Foils. Foil cards often carry higher value and are often stored differently than normal cards. Being able to sift out foils from backlogs automatically helps in identifying valuable cards quickly for listing and storage.
• Sift Sleeved Cards. The Roca Sifter can process cards in premium sleeves. The ability to sift sleeved cards allows you to save time removing cards from sleeves and safely run cards through the machine while processing a backlog, bulk, or during trade-in assessment at the counter.

Organization
When combined with the Roca Sorter, the Roca Sifter can significantly level up your organization. The Roca Sorter allows you to autonomously sort and index 1,000 cards in just two hours to your store’s needs. Together, the Roca Sifter identifies and prepares batches of cards and then the Roca Sorter organizes them.

With the Roca Sorter you can:

• Customize Sorting. Customize how you organize your inventory with over 50 unique programmed sorts and sifts.

• Create Custom Game Packs. Make individual packs with customizable card and rarity quantities, or create customizable lots with evenly distributed rares with the Roca Pack Creator. Select the card types you wish to include in your packs, based on value, rarity, or other criteria. Let the Roca Sorter handle the rest, turning your bulk into unique packs that you can sell in-store or online.
• Organize Your Orders. Upload a CSV of your pull sheet and let your Roca Sorter organize the orders for you with Sort to Ship. Once your cards are loaded, the Roca automatically organizes them into distinct groups based on the order numbers in your file.

Listing
The Roca Sifter directly integrates with Scan & Identify, a powerful tool that allows you to mass import images for identification and seamlessly add the items to your inventory. The Roca Sifter sends the scan data into Scan & Identify, which can be used to create a CSV and be uploaded to TCGplayer in just a few clicks.

Working With Roca Sorter
The Roca Sifter and the Roca Sorter are designed to work together, but they don’t do the same job. The Roca Sifter can quickly find what’s valuable and the Roca Sorter takes care of the organization and sorting.

Without a Roca Sifter, sellers often run entire bulk collections through the Roca Sorter, wasting valuable time on low-value cards. With the Roca Sifter, high-value cards are identified first, bulk is handled separately, and the Roca Sorter is focused on profitable inventory.

This division of labor drastically improves efficiency. Over 40% more cards can be identified and organized when using the two machines together, versus just the Roca Sorter alone. You also gain faster end-to-end processing, reduced re-handling, and improved listing accuracy.

Real-World Use Cases
We’ve put together these real-world use cases to show the power of pairing the Roca Sifter with the Roca Sorter in everyday workflows.

• Prepare items for sale.
  • Sift incoming cards or current stock with the Roca Sifter to identify those that have enough value to be profitable.
  • Sort your inventory with the Roca Sorter to create a CSV and list the cards on TCGplayer with Scan & Identify.

• Fulfill orders faster.
  • Sift through inventory with the Roca Sifter to confirm you have the necessary inventory to fulfill a specific order.
  • Use the pull list on the Roca Sorter to organize and retrieve items for TCGplayer Direct or Store Your Products (SYP).

• Identify profitable opportunities.
  • Sift through a customer’s collection in-store with the Roca Sifter to quickly assess which cards have enough value to make them profitable and purchase those cards for resale.
  • Sift through large collections with the Roca Sifter during events like trade shows and conventions, to maximize buying efficiency and stock acquisition while minimizing time spent on lower-value items.
  • Sort your inventory with the Roca Sorter to create a CSV and list the cards on TCGplayer with Scan & Identify.

The Specifications
The Roca Sifter can sift up to 1,800 cards per hour and holds up to 400 cards with three 250-card output bins. Designed with a compact footprint, it can easily fit on your countertop. Below are the exact measurements:

• Depth: 13.4 inches
• Width: 13 inches
• Height (without tower): 7.8 inches
• Height (with tower): 11.2 inches
• Weight: 12 pounds

At $799, the Roca Sifter brings automation within reach, adding to your existing workflow and scaling your business. A service plan is available for $25/month billed annually ($300/year) that includes Scan & Identify access, set releases, software and firmware updates, customer support, and replaceable parts.

The Impact
At the counter, speed matters just as much as accuracy. The Roca Sifter enables faster trade-in evaluations, shorter wait times, more confident pricing decisions, and better customer experience.

Behind the scenes, the Roca Sifter drives major operational efficiency. Access faster backlog processing, better inventory segmentation, consistent workflows across staff, and higher throughput without added labor. Turn piles of cards into profit faster and easier.

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