Tim I just re-created it now.

Creat a new submission.

Set its status to grading.

Add a card via quick search.

Click save.

Go back to the submission, click edit on the card.

It says RAW.

AskAndy That's super helpful, thanks!

Ok. So that's actually expected behavior. It won't flip it to graded unless the order itself is marked as "Graded". While it's still grading, it keeps it as raw.

I'm kind of rethinking the submission statuses as a whole. They reflect what I was doing personally, but I think as others have used the app, I've seen the statuses are a bit ambiguous.

How are you using them in general? If you're up for it, maybe we can hop on a call next week and you can walk me through it a bit.

Tim to be honest, just getting into grading and understanding cards better to even grade them.

Just talking here:

It would be nice to note in the status of a card, DON'T GRADE (it does not need to be all caps). But sometimes you buy a card, put it in the system (for tracking purposes), then ready to look into grading it to find out it has a dent, or paint missing, or a corner that's bad you didn't initially see. I would like to denote that the card is junk (keep it or sell as junk), other than the notes. (soap box: hate when people sell you a card and don't tell you all that's wrong with it!)

When you submit and actually mail off the cards, this is where I felt the status of the submission should cause a change on the card. Like "In the Mail", "Accepted", "Researching", "Grading", "Graded", "Shipping Back".

I have not looked into what PSA's API fully gives you, but even just changing things manually on the submission seems ok.

I feel you are using your site for pure grading purposes and I guess I'm using it for inventory and grading proposes. Maybe I should not?

Also, what do you do if say PSA marks one card as not gradable. Do you just manually calculate the difference and remove the card from the submission?

AskAndy I do put all my inventory in there too, and the statuses have always been a bit "fuzzy" for non-gradeable cards. I think I'm going to introduce an explicit "Gradeable" property and use that instead of a status. Feels cleaner & less ambiguous, and more safely unlocks https://whuppit.canny.io/features-and-bugs/p/gradability-tracking.

I can auto-add any cards with a pre grade or associated with an order as "gradeable" to avoid a bunch of manual editing.

I'm also considering make statuses something each user can define, rather than forcing everyone to use the ones I came up with. I added a separate feature for that to get feedback: https://whuppit.canny.io/features-and-bugs/p/user-defined-statuses

AskAndy Personally, I just remove the card from the order and yes, adjust the grading fee to match what PSA ultimately charged (I do the same update to the fees on upcharges). Whuppit will automatically re-adjust the new grading fee across the remaining cards in the order.