Price alerts
Get notified when a card crosses your target — above or below, price or percent.
A price alert watches one card's price in one market and notifies you when it crosses your line. (For a blanket rule over everything you watch — "ping me when any watched card moves ±5%" — see the watchlist's movement alerts.)
Creating an alert
From any card (owned, watched or neither) — in the app, and equally from a card's page or drawer on the web — set:
- Finish — normal, foil or etched. Each has its own price series.
- Direction — Below or Above.
- Target — By price for an absolute number, or By % for a percent move.
The sheet also shows the alert's market — a source tag next to the current price. A new alert is anchored to your active price source at the moment you create it.
An alert is a question about one market
The market is stamped at creation and never changes — switching your price source later doesn't move your alerts, so "tell me when the TCGplayer price dips under $40" keeps meaning exactly that. Each alert row shows its market's tag, and you can keep two alerts on the same card in two different markets — a TCGplayer target and a Cardmarket target side by side, each watching its own number.
When a card has no price in an alert's market the alert waits, rather than borrowing a number from somewhere else. The row reads NO PRICE, and the alert itself says "no price in this market".
Alert lifecycle
- Alerts are re-evaluated four times a day (13:00, 18:00 and 23:00 UTC, plus the nightly catalog sync), each against its own market. The prices behind them refresh once a day per source, so an alert can only fire on genuinely new information once a day — the extra sweeps catch what a slow feed delivered late, they do not re-price anything.
- When one fires you get a push notification and an email, and an entry lands in the alert's event history.
- Percent alerts anchor to the card's live price in the alert's market at the moment you create it. Auto re-arm, a switch offered on percent alerts only, keeps the alert active when it fires and re-anchors it to the new price, so a card that keeps climbing keeps reporting each further +15%. It waits an hour before it can fire again. An alert with Auto re-arm on never leaves the All tab, because it never stops being active.
- Alerts by price stay triggered until you reactivate them.
- Snooze quiets an alert temporarily; you can also pause one indefinitely without deleting it.
Managing alerts
The Alerts screen (the bell badge in the tools row, or the bell on any card's header) lists your alerts under three tabs — All / Paused / Triggered — where you snooze, pause, reactivate or delete them. All is your still-watching inventory: an alert that has fired moves out of it and into Triggered, which shows the event feed — what fired, at what price, when. An alert with Auto re-arm on is the exception: it fires and stays in All.
The same hub lives on the web at silvane.app/alerts — the three tabs, a detail drawer with each alert's timeline, and the same actions. The account menu shows a badge with your unseen triggers, shared with the app: opening either surface clears both.
Limits
Free plan
Free accounts include 5 alerts (of any status — to add a sixth, delete one). Every plan shares the technical caps of 10 alerts per card and 250 active alerts total. Silvane Pro removes the 5-alert quota.