New Shipment from Lunar? Here Is How to List It in Minutes

New comics from Lunar or PRH? Here is how to get them into your inventory and listed for sale in minutes using LiveSeller Pro.

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Every week, new comics show up from your distributor ΓÇö Lunar, PRH, or whoever you order through. And every week, you have to get those new titles into your inventory and ready to sell. If you are listing on Whatnot, that means creating individual listings with titles, descriptions, and prices ΓÇö for every single issue. Here is how LiveSeller Pro Comic Edition makes that fast.

The Old Way

Your distributor sends you a shipment. You unpack the box, check what arrived, and then start typing everything into a spreadsheet or directly into Whatnot. Title by title, issue by issue. If you got 40 new comics this week, that is 40 listings you have to create by hand before your next show.

Some sellers skip this step entirely and just wing it during the show. But that means no descriptions, no starting prices, and no organization ΓÇö which usually means leaving money on the table. Buyers scroll past listings that have no details. And if you are fumbling through an unorganized stack on camera, your audience loses patience fast.

Even sellers who do take the time to list everything manually run into problems. Typos in titles. Wrong issue numbers. Forgetting to set a starting price on half the listings. By the time you catch those mistakes, the show is already live and your chat is full of confused buyers asking “what issue is this?”

The LiveSeller Pro Comic Edition Way

Your distributor gives you a file with your shipment details ΓÇö either a spreadsheet, an invoice, or a packing list. Import that file directly into LiveSeller Pro Comic Edition through the Import Center.

1. Import the shipment file ΓÇö upload it through the Import Center. CSV and Excel files both work.
2. LiveSeller Pro Comic Edition reads it automatically ΓÇö titles, issue numbers, and quantities come in clean. The system parses your file and maps the data to the right fields.
3. Fix any issues ΓÇö missing categories or formatting problems get flagged so you can fix them before they become a problem on show day.
4. Export to Whatnot ΓÇö download a ready-to-upload file for your next show. Hundreds of listings at once, formatted exactly the way Whatnot expects.

Your entire weekly shipment goes from box to Whatnot-ready listings in minutes. Not hours. Not days.

What Happens When the File Format Does Not Match

Not every distributor formats their files the same way. Lunar might label a column “Item Title” while PRH calls it “Product Name.” Some files have quantities in column D, others in column G. If you have ever tried to paste one distributor’s spreadsheet into another system, you know the headache.

LiveSeller Pro Comic Edition handles this with automatic column detection. When you upload a file, the system scans the headers and maps them to the right fields ΓÇö title, issue number, quantity, price. If it cannot figure out a column automatically, it asks you to map it manually. You do that once, and the system remembers your mapping for next time.

This means you do not have to reformat your distributor’s file before importing. No renaming columns. No copy-pasting data into a template. Upload the file as-is and let LiveSeller Pro Comic Edition sort it out.

Works with Lunar and PRH

LiveSeller Pro Comic Edition supports the file formats used by the major comic distributors ΓÇö CSV and Excel (XLSX). If you order through Lunar or Penguin Random House (PRH), you can import their shipment files directly. No reformatting needed. Got a different distributor? If they give you a CSV or Excel file, it will work.

Pricing New Arrivals

Getting comics into your inventory is only half the job. You still have to price them. And pricing 40 new titles one at a time is almost as tedious as listing them one at a time.

Most Whatnot sellers use one of three approaches for new arrivals:

• Cover price: Start every listing at the cover price printed on the book. Simple and predictable, but you might leave money on the table for hot titles.
• Percentage markup: Take your cost from the distributor invoice and add a fixed margin ΓÇö say 30 or 40 percent. This guarantees profit on every book but does not account for demand.
• Market-based pricing: Check what a title is actually selling for on Whatnot and eBay, then price accordingly. Best margins, but the most time-consuming if you are doing it manually.

LiveSeller Pro Comic Edition gives you batch pricing tools so you do not have to set prices one at a time. Select a group of titles, apply a pricing rule ΓÇö cover price, cost-plus, or a flat starting bid ΓÇö and every listing in that group updates at once. You can also override individual titles when you know something is going to sell above cover. The key is speed: get your baseline prices set in bulk, then fine-tune the ones that matter.

Tracking What Sold from Each Shipment

After your show, you want to know what moved. Did those new Spider-Man variants sell? How many copies of that indie title are still sitting in the box? If you do not track this, you end up re-ordering titles that are not selling and missing restock opportunities on the ones that are.

LiveSeller Pro Comic Edition keeps your inventory current so you can see what sold, what is left, and what needs to be reordered. When you reconcile after a show, your shipment data stays connected ΓÇö you can trace a title back to the shipment it came from and see whether it moved or sat. That information shapes your next order and keeps dead stock from piling up.

A Weekly Routine That Actually Works

Here is what your week looks like with LiveSeller Pro Comic Edition:

• Tuesday: Shipment arrives. Import the file into LiveSeller Pro Comic Edition.
• Wednesday: Review, fix any flags, set your prices using batch pricing tools.
• Thursday: Export to Whatnot. Upload. Done.
• Show day: Walk in prepared. Every listing is already live with correct titles, prices, and descriptions.

No more scrambling before the show. No more typing titles at the last minute. No more realizing mid-stream that half your new arrivals are not listed yet. Your new inventory is ready before you even think about going live.

Got a shipment coming this week? Start your 14-day free trial of LiveSeller Pro Comic Edition and import it in minutes.