Why Carousel Shop AI?

We know you have a lot of choices in inventory management systems, but we believe that Carousel Shop AI is the strongest and most comprehensive tool to power your reselling business. We built it for the way resellers actually work - antique mall booths, thrift stores, estate sale companies, flea markets and online marketplaces.

Try the AI Free - No Account Start on the Web

Three free item analyses and three price checks on iPhone before you sign up for anything.

Point Your Camera at It

Point your camera at a piece and find out what it is and what it is worth.

Quick Analyze - what is it and how does it help?

Take a picture and get an assessment back in seconds: age, maker, materials, condition, distinguishing features and collectibility. It reads the hallmarks. A "MADE IN PORTUGAL 1936" stamp on an unglazed base becomes a date, an origin and a note that the mark itself is what collectors of regional pottery will care about.

It reads the price sticker too. Snap a Goodwill tag and the $6.99 is automatically added as your acquisition price, so your cost basis is captured at the moment you buy rather than from memory later on.

Categories are added in the background to power useful searching later on. Maybe you didn't remember buying that Brass School Bus K-12 Photo Frame last February, but Carousel Shop AI will pull it up when you are searching for items for your Back to School display in August.

iPhone and web

Quick Analyze results in the Carousel Shop AI iPhone app for a hand-painted Portuguese ceramic pitcher, listing era, maker, materials, condition, features and collectibility, a detected price tag of USD 6.99, and suggested categories.
Reading the mark on the base, and the thrift sticker on the front

Marketplace Eval - what is it selling for right now

Search live marketplace listings for comparable pieces, including reverse image search, and get a price range with a confidence rating and a written explanation of how it got there. Every listing links out so you can judge the comps yourself. Searches run live every time, never from a cache, because a stale comp is worse than no comp at all.

iPhone and web. Works on a new photo or on something already in your inventory.

"This appears to be a late 20th-century decorative plate in the style of Chinese export porcelain, likely famille rose. The Tongzhi Nian Zhi mark is a decorative addition, common on revival pieces, rather than indicating actual 19th-century production. The enameling style and the overall finish are consistent with modern decorative pieces."

The explanation behind the $30 to $75 range shown here
Marketplace Eval in the Carousel Shop AI iPhone app, showing a $30 to $75 price estimate with a high confidence rating, a written explanation of the valuation, and twenty comparable marketplace listings.
A real evaluation on a Chinese export porcelain plate

Listing copy, written for you

The same analysis produces a customer-facing description, a marketplace listing title and tags, ready to paste wherever you sell. It is tuned against AI cliche and varies its opening line item to item, so your listings do not all read as though a machine wrote them. Use it for inspiration or paste it right into your listing form. Whatever works best for you.

iPhone and web. One-tap copy to clipboard on iPhone.

An item in the Carousel Shop AI iPhone app showing the AI-generated marketplace listing title and full description, with a one-tap copy button.
The listing title and description, written from the photographs

A camera that keeps up with you

The camera stays open between shots, so you can photograph the piece, the maker's mark and the chip on the rim in one go. Up to ten photos per item. iPhone photos convert automatically and every image gets fast-loading versions generated for you.

iPhone has a purpose-built camera. The web app captures in your browser with nothing to install.

Ask About Any Piece

A conversation about one item in your inventory, with the item already in front of it.

Start from any piece

Open an item and tap Ask Shop Assistant. It starts with the item's record, its photos and anything your team has already learned about it, so you never have to describe it first. Ask who made it and when, what a mark or signature says, what condition issues the photos show, what a realistic resale price range is, or how best to describe and list it.

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A sold Famille Rose Medallion porcelain vase in the Carousel Shop AI iPhone app, with an Ask Shop Assistant button under the Marketplace Eval button.
One tap from any item in your inventory

It reads the mark, then tells you what it means

Point it at a photo and it studies that photo in full detail. Asked about the seal mark on the base of this vase, it read the four characters as "Qianlong Nian Zhi", explained that the Qianlong Emperor reigned from 1735 to 1796, and then said why the piece is still most likely 20th century: later porcelain often carries the mark of a revered earlier reign as a tribute rather than a date.

iPhone. Tap any of the item's photos to ask about it.

A Shop Assistant conversation in the Carousel Shop AI iPhone app: the user points at a photo of the vase's base and asks what the mark means; the reply identifies a Famille Rose Medallion vase, reads the red square seal as a four-character Qianlong Nian Zhi mark, gives the 1735 to 1796 reign, and explains why the piece is likely 20th century.
Reading a Qianlong reign mark, and explaining why it is not a date

Suggestions you apply with one tap

When it suggests a better marketplace title, description, tags or notes, each suggestion arrives with an Apply button. Nothing changes on the item until you tap it.

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"What have I sold like this?"

Ask about your own history and it searches your inventory, sold pieces included, and lists the closest matches with what they sold or are listed for. It only ever searches your own shop.

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Findings your whole team can keep

Other shop members can't see your conversations. When one turns up something worth keeping, the assistant drafts a short summary for you to review and edit, and publishing it makes it a Slide Summary the whole team can read on that item, Viewers included.

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Prices for where you actually sell

Ask what something is worth and you get a realistic range, the reasons behind it and how confident it is. Ask about a booth in an antique mall versus selling online and it prices each one separately, the way a reseller thinks about it. It can also check your own inventory for comparable pieces and tell you what you have listed or sold them for.

Those estimates come from the AI's own knowledge of resale markets. It does not browse the web or quote live listings, and it says so when it is unsure. For live comparable sales, run a Marketplace Eval.

Included on every plan, with a monthly allowance counted in items researched, not messages.

A Shop Assistant reply in the Carousel Shop AI iPhone app estimating the vase at $80 to $150 in a New Hampshire antique mall booth and $120 to $220 on Etsy or Chairish, explaining what drives the range with medium confidence, then listing a comparable Famille Rose ginger jar from the shop's own inventory listed at $62.
Separate estimates for a mall booth and for selling online

Know What You Have

Inventory built around how a reseller thinks, not a retail SKU system.

Real price history, not one price field

What you paid, what you are asking, and what it sold for, as separate dated entries. Bought in May, listed in July, sold in August, and the whole story stays with the piece: what it cost you, what you got, and how quickly it sold, plus any internal notes you add.

When Quick Analyze reads a price sticker, that first entry writes itself and is labelled so you know where the number came from. It will never overwrite a figure you entered yourself. Recording a sold price marks the item sold, so nothing needs remembering.

Your cost basis stays yours. Clients never see it.

iPhone and web. Multiple currencies on the web.

The price history sheet in the Carousel Shop AI iPhone app for a vintage Canada Hockey cooler: acquisition price of $42.00 on 15 May 2026 marked AI-detected price tag, listing price of $95.00 on 13 July, and sold price of $95.00 on 4 August.
Bought at $42, sold at $95. The acquisition price came from the tag in the photograph.

Two descriptions, so anything meant only for the business stays internal

Keep a private description and internal notes for condition thoughts and sourcing details, and a separate customer-facing description for the people you sell to. The internal ones never leave your shop.

iPhone and web

Ask for what you want in plain English

Carousel Search understands "anything brass" or "Christmas holiday items" and works out which of your own categories match, then tells you in a sentence what it searched for. Alongside it, filter by category, location, favourites, and whether something is active or sold.

It also understands more complex searches so you can cast a wide net when planning a new collection - porcelain tea sets and silverplate serving pieces will return a set of results that includes both.

iPhone and web

Bring Your Spreadsheet With You

If you already have hundreds of items in a spreadsheet, this is the question you actually need answered.

Upload a CSV and every row becomes an item. Up to five thousand rows at a time, and only a name column is required. Everything else, your prices, dates, categories, locations and notes, comes across if you have it and is skipped if you do not.

You see what will happen before it happens. Drop the file and the app tells you how many rows it found, how many will import, and how many need attention, with the reason for each. Nothing is created until you say so.

And if it was wrong, you can undo it. Delete everything an import created, and the cleanup skips anything you have already added photographs to. Getting it wrong the first time costs you a minute, not an evening.

Your own descriptions land in each item's private notes rather than the customer-facing field, so the wording you spent time on survives the move and is still there after the AI writes its version.

Web. Owners and admins.

The Import Inventory from CSV screen in the Carousel Shop AI web app, showing a drop zone, a downloadable CSV template, and a note that only a name is required per row with a limit of 5,000 rows or 5 MB per file.
Only a name is required. There is a template if you want one.
The CSV import preview in the Carousel Shop AI web app, showing 399 rows in file, 399 will import, and 0 warnings, with a button reading Import 399 slides.
399 rows found, 399 will import, nothing needing attention. Still nothing created.
The CSV import completion screen in the Carousel Shop AI web app, reading import complete, created 399 slides of 399.
Three hundred and ninety-nine items, from one file.
The past imports list in the Carousel Shop AI web app, showing an import of 399 slides with a Delete slides button, and a note that you can delete the slides an import created as long as you have not added photos to them yet.
Changed your mind? Undo the whole import, minus anything you have started working on.

Know Where It Is

Never miss another trend on the upswing because you can't locate an item.

A Location is the booth, the storage unit, the basement, the spare room. A Place is the bin, the shelf, the cabinet inside it. Whether it's Storage Unit 2, Bin 4 or Dining Room, Corner Cabinet, you will know exactly where to find an item based on your own locations and how you use them.

Open a bin and you see everything in it on your screen. Pull up one item slide and you see what else is sitting in the same bin, which is the difference between one trip to the basement and three. If you are going down for the famille rose bowl, you can see the twenty-seven other pieces in bin-05 before you go, not after you have come back up.

Things move, and the app assumes they will. Long press a Place and send it to another Location: when bin-05 goes from the basement to the storage unit, everything inside it goes too, with no re-tagging. Same gesture moves a single item from one bin to another.

iPhone and web. Managed under My Shop, Locations.

The Locations list in the Carousel Shop AI iPhone app, showing Home Basement with 71 places, Home Kitchen, Home Living Room and other locations.
Locations. Rooms, storage units, booths
The Home Basement location in the Carousel Shop AI iPhone app, listing 71 places including bin-01 through bin-05, with bin-05 labelled Asian Porcelain.
Places. Seventy-one bins in one basement
The contents of bin-05 in the Carousel Shop AI iPhone app, a grid of 28 items of Asian porcelain including spoons, ginger jars, bowls and plates.
Contents. Twenty-eight pieces in bin-05
A long press on an item in the Carousel Shop AI iPhone app showing a Move to Place option.
Moving. Long press, and it goes

Sourcing for Clients

Curate and share pieces directly with your best clients.

Plenty of platforms help you sell things to whoever turns up. This is for the dealer or decorator hunting on behalf of people they know: the client who collects one maker, the decorator furnishing a particular room, the collector waiting on the right piece.

Hand-pick a collection and share it with one client, a few, or all of your clients at once, including clients you invite later. They open the app and see exactly the pieces you chose, with your asking price. Not your cost, not where you found it, not your notes, not another client's selection, nothing you did not choose.

You decide how long it stays up: four days, two weeks, one, three or six months, or until you stop sharing it. Build several themed collections, share each with all your clients, and every client sees them together alongside anything you picked for them personally. A piece that sells while it is out drops out of their view on its own, even in a share that runs for months. To change what a client sees, update the collection and share it again, or stop sharing with a tap.

It is the digital version of setting things aside for a good client and calling them when you have something, except they can look whenever they want and you are not texting photographs.

What you share is not a filtered view of your inventory. It is the whole of what exists for them. Your client opens your shop and finds the pieces you chose. There is no rest of it to stumble into. Stop sharing a collection and those pieces leave their view altogether.

Inside that, they get real tools rather than a slideshow. They can browse what you sent and search it in plain English, and every answer comes back from the set you picked. Someone can be a client of several dealers at once, and each shop stays in its own world.

iPhone and web. Available on every plan. Client Members have their own allowance, separate from your team: 12 on Personal, 500 on Business, unlimited on Business Plus.

The share sheet in the Carousel Shop AI iPhone app with All clients selected, noting it reaches every client of the shop including clients who join later, Share for set to Until unshared, a title and a personal message, and a note reading clients see only published photos and the listing price, never your cost, location, or internal details.
You choose. Who sees it, for how long, and a note to go with it
The My Collections list in the Carousel Shop AI iPhone app showing two collections, Brass clocks and Bijan Bahar pieces, the latter carrying a Shared badge.
You keep track. What is out, and with whom
A client's view of a shop in the Carousel Shop AI iPhone app, showing only the five items shared with them: three brass clocks and two brass pieces.
They see it. Five pieces, because five were sent
A client running a Carousel Search for find all clocks in the Carousel Shop AI iPhone app, returning three results from the items shared with them.
They search it. And find only what you sent

Nothing goes out by accident

An item has to be published, and each photograph within it published, before anyone outside your shop can see it. Try to share a collection containing something unpublished and it stops you, and tells you exactly which items need attention. The same goes for anything still showing a placeholder photo from an import: add a real photo first, and your client never sees a stand-in.

The default is not a locked door with your inventory behind it. The default is an empty room. Until you share something, a client signing in finds nothing at all, because for them there is nothing there.

iPhone and web

A client's home screen in the Carousel Shop AI iPhone app before anything has been shared, reading nothing shared with you yet, collections a shop shares with you will show up here.
What a client sees before you share anything

Collections that find themselves

Your home feed is not a wall of everything you own. It is a set of collections the app assembled overnight, each with a line explaining why those pieces are together.

Ahead of a holiday or a season it surfaces what you already own that suits the occasion, so your back to school stock or your summer pieces come out of the back room while there is still time to sell them. The calendar runs to thirty-one windows throughout the year. Alongside those it finds themes in your own inventory, follows what is trending, and keeps an eye on the housekeeping: what came in this week, and what has been sitting untouched.

iPhone and web. Collections start appearing once you have added a handful of items.

A Back to School collection in the Carousel Shop AI home feed, described as scholarly seaside charm and academic artistry from bygone eras, with eleven items.
Seasonal. Back to School, found in stock you already had
A Victorian Grandeur and Whimsy collection in the Carousel Shop AI home feed, described as elegance and charm in glass, porcelain and metal from the 19th century, with twelve items.
By theme. Victorian Grandeur & Whimsy, drawn from your own pieces
A Trending Chinoiserie Charm collection in the Carousel Shop AI home feed, described as exotic florals and gilded motifs with East meets West elegance, with twelve items.
Trending. Chinoiserie, while buyers are looking for it
Recently Added and Inactive Inventory collections in the Carousel Shop AI home feed, showing 126 new items in the last seven days.
Housekeeping. What came in, and what has stopped moving

Work as a Team

Everyone in your shop works from the same inventory, with a role that fits.

Roles that fit how a shop runs

Invite the people who run your shop as Owners, Admins, Members or Viewers. Members add and update inventory. Owners and admins decide what is published and shared with clients. Viewers can look without changing anything.

iPhone and web. Team Members have their own allowance, separate from your clients: 2 on Personal (you plus one), 20 on Business, 40 on Business Plus.

Collections your whole team can work on

Keep a collection to yourself, or make it visible to your whole shop. A shop-visible collection shows up for everyone on your team, marked with the name of the person who made it. Anyone who can edit inventory can add or remove pieces and rename it, owners and admins can delete it, and only the person who made it can make it private again.

Gathering pieces for a show, a buying trip or a particular client becomes a shared job rather than one person's list. Making a collection shop visible shows it to your team only; clients never see it.

iPhone and web. Private by default.

Add any piece to a collection in one step

Press and hold an item on iPhone, or click the collection button on its photo on the web, then tick the collections it belongs in. A piece can sit in several collections at once, and unticking one takes it out again. Start a new collection right there and the piece goes straight into it. The same option is on the item's own page.

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One account, several shops

Hold memberships in as many shops as you like, with a different role in each: an admin in a business you help run, the owner of your own, a client of a dealer who sources for you. Switch between them and everything follows, from your inventory to your home feed.

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iPhone, Web, or Both

Nearly everything works in both places. Here is what does not.

 iPhoneWeb
Capture, AI tools, inventory, collections, client sharingYesYes
Try the AI without an accountYesNo
Shop Assistant (ask about any piece)YesNo
CSV importNoYes
Copy listing text to clipboardYesNo
Choose a currency on a price entryUS dollars onlyYes
Street address on a locationYesNo
Password recoveryUse the webYes
BillingAppleCard, on the web

Subscriptions are managed wherever you started them. Apple also allows one subscription per Apple ID, so a second shop subscribes on the web.

See It on Something You Own

Download the app and run the AI on a real piece. Three item analyses and three price checks, no account, no card.

Try It on iPhone See Plans and Pricing

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