Make your collection easier to browse and play.
TheBoardGuide is a curator for your collection. Scan it, import it, or type it in. Then search your collection by players, with every box’s condition and whereabouts kept beside it.
No card. No setup. Works with the shelves you already have.
Getting it in is the short part.
The first two steps take an afternoon. The third is the one you come back to.
Import it
Photograph a shelf and the spines come back as titles. Or import the spreadsheet you already keep, or type a game in by hand, whichever is quickest for what you own.
Confirm it
Every game arrives with its players, play time, and artwork attached. Confirm what the scan got right, fix what it did not, and note the condition each box is actually in.
Share it
Publish a collection people can explore before they arrive, with every game, its condition, and what is available right now.
Your shop page, started before you finish signing up
Tell us which Google Maps listing is yours and we build your page from it: your address, opening hours and photos. Sign up with your shop’s own email and we read your website too, for your description and your social links. Nobody sees it until you say so.
Start your shop pageA curator, not a spreadsheet
Every box, properly described
Player counts, play time, and artwork attach themselves from BoardGameGeek. Link or relink any game by hand in two taps.
Condition and whereabouts
Record a box as mint, played-in, or short a meeple, and mark it out when it leaves the shelf. The record follows the box instead of your memory.
Your whole team
Staff add and lend from their phones, you watch the collection fill up from the dashboard. Same catalog, everywhere.
Your collection stays yours
Import the spreadsheet you have been keeping for years, and export the whole catalog back out whenever you like.
Your next customer is looking for a table, not for software.
The front of this site is not a sales page. It is where somebody types in a game they have been meaning to try and gets back the places near them that keep it on the shelf. Publish your page and your shelf is one of the answers, with your hours, your address and your games on it, on a link that belongs to you.
See what they seeBe easier to find.
A public collection gives your games, opening hours, and address a home people can discover when they are deciding where to play. Share the link anywhere you already reach customers, and let a game search lead them back to your table.
Here for a demo? Search your shop name.
We photograph shelves and write the page from what is already public about the business. If we have been to yours, it is finished and waiting. Nobody there has to have signed up for anything.
Keep your customers playing.
We’re making simple tools that make game night easier for your customers: pick who goes first, make fair teams, keep turns moving, and settle a buzzer round.
Simple pricing
The first one is free for a room with customers in it, and it does not expire. Pay when you want the adverts gone, or the reports, colors and website catalog that come with Shop.
Freemium
Free
For a café, shop or club. Free, with adverts on the lists you publish.
- Unlimited games
- Scan, import, or add by hand
- Search, lending and condition notes
- One shop, with a floor and a customer page
- A dashboard of what customers search for and open
- Up to 6 staff
- Lists you can publish and send
- Adverts on the lists you share
Shop
$29.00 a month
For a place with a real library, and nobody else’s advertising anywhere on it.
- Everything in Freemium, without the adverts
- Unlimited staff
- Reports on what customers search for and cannot find
- Lists that fill themselves from a rule
- Your own colors and welcome line on your page
- Your catalog on your own website
- QR codes that count every scan, and printable table tents
- One shop
Chain
Starting at $29.00 a month
For several locations under one roof.
- Everything in Shop
- As many shops as you pay for
- One bill for all of them
- Priority support
The shelf is already yours.
Give it one afternoon and it becomes a personal assistant for your customers.
Start your catalog