Development roadmap ยท Updated November 5, 2026
Build for stores today. Add card recognition later.
ScanStation is in active development. Implemented features are not a claim of production readiness, and planned stages are not delivery promises.
Implemented prototype
- Windows desktop shell and manual Magic card catalog search.
- Local card data, filters, and cached images and market prices. Uncached images and prices require internet access.
- Store inventory and CSV intake, pricing settings, cart sales and PDF outputs.
- Employee roles and an early staff queue for reserved orders, external payment confirmation and pickup.
- Store interest submissions with private administration, review statuses and CSV export.
Customer-facing submission into the reserved-order queue is still being connected. The public prototype does not expose real store inventory or accept real purchases.
Next: public interest launch
Complete security and browser checks, establish a real contact address, and configure hosting, HTTPS, backups and monitoring. Review the domain and brand before public rollout. No payments will be collected for pledges.
Next: store demonstrations and pilots
Verify touchscreen use, manual search accuracy, startup/recovery, offline cached browsing and inventory intake with representative fixture data. Prepare an installer and update/rollback process, then collect feedback from local game stores.
Commercial expansion
Develop independent customer carts, order submission, phone/email accounts, richer imports and inventory synchronization around pilot requirements. Shared online and in-store stock requires one authoritative service; offline browsing does not promise offline order submission.
Separate senior-design track: around 2028
Automated card scanning and computer-vision identification are reserved for the University of Cincinnati Computer Science senior-design project around 2028. That subsystem is not implemented now. Commercial development, manual lookup and store demonstrations will proceed before it exists.
The future identifier should propose an exact card printing for review through the same card-selection process used by manual search and imports. It must not change inventory directly.