Setup guide

Gatefold identifies the exact pressing of every record in your catalogue and writes what it finds onto your own products: label, catalogue number, country, pressing year and original year, format, genres, tracklist, condition, and front and rear cover art. It is not a sync pipe that moves listings between marketplaces — it is the part nobody automates, which is describing the specific copy on your shelf well enough that a collector will buy it without emailing you first.

Every pressing of an album shares the album's name, so a name can find the record but not the copy. Naming the catalogue number, the plant and the year answers the question a collector would otherwise have to ask.

The whole loop, on a real catalogue: the console reads your products, the barcode queue matches them, and the pressing details land on the storefront.

Silent screen recording, 24 seconds. In order: the console opens inside the store admin and counts the catalogue; Run barcode queue is pressed and works through the barcoded records on the server; matched records show their pressing details; the theme editor places the Pressing Details block; and the finished product page shows label, catalogue number, country, year, condition and tracklist. Every step is written out below — nothing in the video is explained only there.

Install from the App Store listing. There is no account to create, no Discogs login, and no settings to fill in before anything works — the console opens inside your store admin and starts reading your catalogue immediately.

On the permission screen you should see products and inventory, and nothing else. The app asks for exactly three permissions, and each one buys a specific thing:

There is no customer permission, no order permission and no payment permission on that list. If you ever see this app asking for one, something is wrong — say so, and don't install it.

If you already keep your for-sale stock in a Gatefold console, Import from Gatefoldpushes it into your store as active products, each one arriving with its pressing details, price, barcode and cover art already attached. The button only appears once a Gatefold account is linked; if you don't have one, skip this step entirely and add products the way you always have — enrichment works on whatever is already in your catalogue.

One thing to know about stock numbers.The app imports products fully — details, description, price, barcode — but it can only set quantities when it has access to your store's locations. Where it doesn't, the import still succeeds and the products still arrive complete; they simply come in without stock tracking, and you set the quantities in your store admin. Nothing is lost and nothing needs re-running.

Why some records answer instantly and others ask you a question is its own page: how matching works.

This is the part that took the work. Press Pick pressing, search the album, and choose from every pressing we hold for it — presented the way you would compare them in the shop, oldest first by default.

Each row carries the facts that separate one pressing from another:

• Year and Country — the 1971 original and the 2023 reissue, told apart.
• Label and Cat № — the catalogue number is the single most decisive field on the row.
• Matrix / deadwax — what is scratched into the run-out groove. When two pressings share everything else, this is what a collector reads to tell them apart, and it is why an exact pick beats a guess on a record worth real money.

A filter box takes label, cat#, country, year or deadwax, and you can re-sort by newest, country or label. On a used copy, the grades and any flaw notes go in on the same screen and land on the listing with everything else.

Records are graded on the Goldmine scale, and a copy gets two grades, not one — the Media grade for the disc and the Sleeve grade for the jacket, because a near-mint record in a beaten sleeve is a different object from the reverse, and a collector prices them differently.

The grade letters themselves stay in their standard form in every language — VG+ is VG+ whether the listing is written in German or Japanese. The words around them are translated; the letters are not, because they are the international shorthand and translating them would break the one thing a buyer abroad can read.

Grades appear on a listing only when you type them in — condition is not knowable from a catalogue and is never guessed. For the same reason an ungraded record is never tagged New: no grade means we know nothing, not that the record is sealed.

The details are on your products once they're matched, but your theme has to be told to show them. In the theme editor: Add section → Apps → Gatefold, drag it where you want it, and save. There is a button in the console that opens the theme editor at the right place.

Four blocks ship with the app:

• Pressing Details and Tracklist — for product pages.
• Grail Wall and New Arrivals — two shelves you can drop on your home page.

Works with any Online Store 2.0 theme — that's every current theme. Vintage themes from before 2021 can't place app blocks.

There is no code to paste and no developer needed. The blocks ship zero JavaScript — they are rendered on the server before the page reaches the browser — so they cannot slow your storefront down. On a product that hasn't been matched yet, a block renders nothing at all on the live storefront; you'll see a placeholder inside the theme editor so you can position it.

There are two plans.

The 50 are counted as records currently enriched, per version of a product. A record that came back with no match costs nothing, and re-enriching one you've already done costs nothing either — so correcting a wrong pressing is always free. At 50, new enrichment stops and the console tells you. Nothing already written is removed, hidden, watermarked or degraded, and those 50 stay enriched whatever you decide to do next.

The honest list of what the app doesn't do — no undo button, no pricing, no pressing data for records that aren't out yet — is deliberately written down rather than discovered later: what it doesn't do.

This app holds no customer data and no order data. That is a consequence of the permission list rather than a promise about our conduct: it never asks your store for a customer, order or payment permission, so there is no such data for it to receive, store or lose.

What it writes is product-level reference metadata — artist, label, catalogue number, pressing details — onto your own products, in fields owned by the app. It is reference data about pressings, never product data taken from another merchant's store.

The mandatory privacy webhooks are implemented and verified, and they have nothing to return or erase, because nothing personal was collected in the first place. Full policy: app.gatefold.fm/privacy.

Email support@gatefold.fm. A person answers — there is no ticket robot in front of it. Common questions are answered on the FAQ.