You’re at a con. Someone’s flipping through your long boxes, asking prices. You’re juggling cash, making change, trying to remember what you already sold, and hoping you don’t accidentally sell the same book twice. Meanwhile, the guy two tables over has a slick display and a line forming.
Convention Mode turns any phone, tablet, or laptop into a live, visual display of your collection — purpose-built for selling comics face to face.
Here’s what your customers see:
A clean, dark-themed grid of big comic thumbnails with titles, grades, and prices. Every card has a QR code that customers can scan with their phone. If you have Comic Collector Pro installed, that QR code takes them straight to an offer form — no app download, no signup, just scan and submit. Without Pro, it links to your collection page or WooCommerce product instead.
Here’s what you see:
A “Sold” button on every card. Tap it, enter the sale price (pre-filled with the estimated value), and the comic animates off the display. Changed your mind? An undo toast gives you 10 seconds to bring it back. The sold comic gets archived with the price recorded, so your books and your numbers stay accurate without writing anything down.
Built for the booth:
The grid is fully configurable — set your column count for mobile and desktop separately, choose how many comics load per page, and filter by publisher or sort by value to highlight your best books. The dark theme keeps it readable under convention hall lighting, and you can customize the background, card, text, and accent colors to match your booth branding.
Drop the |comic_convention| shortcode on any page, prop up your device, and you’ve got a professional digital display running alongside your physical inventory.
What’s included:
- Big responsive thumbnail grid optimized for in-person browsing
- QR codes on every card — links to offer form (with Pro) or collection/product page
- One-tap Sold button with optional price entry and 10-second undo
- Dark booth-friendly theme with fully customizable colors
- Configurable grid columns, page size, and sort options
- Search bar and publisher filter for quick lookups at the table
- Badges for slabbed, variant, key issue, and sale-priced comics
- Auto-open offer modal when customers scan the QR code (requires Pro)
- Works on any device — phone, tablet, laptop
- Auto-updates delivered to your WordPress dashboard
Requirements: Comic Collector (free) and WooCommerce. QR-to-offer functionality requires Comic Collector Pro. All other features work without Pro.
