What’s new on Mana Pool: June 4 - June 24

Here’s a look at what’s changed on manapool.com between June 4-June 24.

📌 Highlights

In Development - we’re actively working on picture listings and listings for off-catalog items, personalized recommendations, and the Gather & Verify program.
In the Aether - we’re considering local pickup, kiosk, and website functionality for sellers; a mobile app to scan cards; and the ability to generate commander decks from a single seller’s inventory.
High-End Verifications - items priced at $300 or more from sellers without track records are now routed through Mana Pool for verification. This affects only very new sellers.
Pricing Anomalies - seller workflows now advise about pricing anomalies in more places.
Buyer Order Views - buyer order pages now show packages more consistently, including better package cards, ratings, and report/rate actions across list and detail views.
Art Cards - we hid all art cards and stopped allowing them to be listed, because we don’t yet have the capability to handle signed/not-signed versions. Art cards again someday!

Inventory Listing & Editing

Seller workflows now advise about pricing anomalies in more places.
Sellers can now filter printings by set code.
The add-inventory flow now makes better use of wide screens and keeps the printing picker from overlapping.
Adding a card to inventory now defaults to Near Mint / Non-Foil / English.
Bulk price update now has a nicer filter experience, including one-click “select all below” in filter lists.
Large CSV imports got faster.

Packing Slips & Shipping

Packing slips and envelopes got several quality-of-life improvements: apartment/unit formatting is more USPS-friendly, 4x6 PDF output now respects the selected layout, return-address state can be cleared, and prices render more cleanly.

Seller Accounts

Added a new onboarding experience and emails for new sellers.
Hid seller functions for pure buyer accounts.
Profile/account experience is a bit cleaner, with account controls moved into Settings instead of the main menu.

Bug Fixes

🐛 Fixed some user-reported issues in the seller ratings dashboard.
🐛 Fixed seller order and listing-related crashes caused by large-number filters, duplicate API inputs, and several integration edge cases.

Browse, Search & Card Discovery

Browse now has a filter for “card text,” so you can find cards that say things like “draw a card.”
Browse pages are faster and have better back-button behavior.
Refined result ordering so out-of-stock unsold items get pushed down.
Seller sales counts and market-price-style numbers now display with thousands separators.
Homepage and carousel card selection got smarter about legality and catalog quality, so formats and featured cards should make more sense.
The homepage now degrades more gracefully if a product fetch fails instead of dumping you onto a full error page.

Orders, Cart & Checkout

Buyer order pages now show packages more consistently, including better package cards, ratings, and report/rate actions across list and detail views.
Optimizer results now clear when you change filters, so you won’t be looking at stale recommendations from an old run.

Bug Fixes

🐛 Fixed a set-page empty-state issue and several slug/search bugs that could incorrectly 404 or time out.
🐛 Fixed checkout and cart crashes tied to enum drift, stale chunks after deploys, and transient listing-load failures.

ShipStation orders now include a ship-by date and preorder flags.
The integrations page now has an in-page Help Center link to make supported tools easier to discover.
API inventory writes are more flexible now: integrations can update price or quantity independently, send 1-cent prices that still respect Mana Pool’s 15-cent floor, and get cleaner handling for duplicate items or conflicting external IDs instead of mysterious failures.

A lot of effort went into reducing database load, write amplification, and refresh contention: cleaner indexes, faster browse and inventory pagination, lighter schema reload behavior, and safer refresh scheduling.
CI and deployment plumbing got cleaner and quieter, with less redundant work and better tooling around schema checks and migrations.
A large batch of internal fixes landed for noisy Sentry errors, flaky admin pages, validation edge cases, and background-job retries that were causing duplicate or confusing operational signals.

These changes affect internal systems or beta test features that won’t be apparent to you, but we include this info for the curious.

Support & Ops

Added a new maintenance-mode admin control.
Improved email-lookup handling.
Added several small dev/admin utilities to make support work smoother.
Support/admin order pages got a long list of fixes and usability improvements, including better package views and faster/paginated modals.

Promotions & Programs

We now have the capability to do a “Double Extra Mana” day, and we used it for the first time when our partnership with Tolarian Community College launched.

Seller Integrations

Oversells from CrystalCommerce and Shopify are now auto-resolved more aggressively before undelegated-order alerts fire, reducing manual cleanup.

Analytics & Catalog

Internal analytics and retention tooling expanded, including affiliate filtering and more structured telemetry around optimizer behavior and builds.
Secret Lair singles now have good release dates and messages about when they will ship.

Gather & Verify Shipping

Beta testers can continue trying Mana Pool’s Gather & Verify program, with a big wave of work on buyer order views, gathered admin pages, verification tools, package timelines, replacement lookup, and consolidated shipping emails.
We’re working to make the orders flow faster, make it easier on admins to run the program, and clean up user-reported issues.
We’re adding a setting to let buyers choose whether to always get replacements for issues, or to opt for partial refunds.

Recommendations & Personalization

Personalized recommendations are getting closer. We’re internally alpha-testing a recommendations feature based on previous purchases and a model of how cards relate based on their attributes.

Unique Products & Picture Listings

We’ve started work on enabling listings with pictures/metadata, and listings for off-catalog items.