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TCG Card Shop Simulator Shop & Warehouse Expansion

Grow your shop floor or your warehouse and see what the next step costs. Every price below is the verified room formula, printed step by step.

Verified against TCG Card Shop Simulator 1.0

What are you expanding?

Grows the shop floor. Each new room is bought in sequence, and the price steps up at fixed points as the shop gets bigger.

Your shop state

Your saved shop level fills this in.

Rooms you have added to the shop floor.

Warehouse

Unlock the warehouse before adding warehouse rooms.

Saved in this browser and shared with the other shop tools.

Expansion systems

Two progressions, two price formulas. They are never added together into one total.

Shop Expansion

Not set

Grows the shop floor. Each new room is bought in sequence, and the price steps up at fixed points as the shop gets bigger.

First room
$400
Last modelled step
$102,300 (60)
Customer money per room
$250
Expansion step
1–60

Warehouse Expansion

Not unlocked

Grows storage. The warehouse has its own price formula, its own bonus to customer money, and it only exists once the warehouse is unlocked.

First room
$1,500
Last modelled step
$586,000 (60)
Customer money per room
$400
Expansion step
1–60

Next Shop Expansion

Shop expansions are bought in sequence: the next expansion only appears once the previous one is done. That is why the step above is the step after yours.

Your current state

Shop level
Not set
Shop expansion
Not set
Warehouse
Not set
Warehouse expansion
Not set

Set your current expansion to see your next step

A Shop Level alone does not tell us how far you have expanded. Add your current expansion above and the next step appears here.

Calculate cost to a later expansion →

The planner takes your state and a target, then prices every step between them.

Expansion progression

Every modelled step with its verified price. Select a step to see it on its own; your current and next steps are marked.

Bought steps are inferred from the current expansion you set, because the game sells these in sequence. Everything above your current step is only a price.

Selected step

Shop Expansion 1

$400Purchase cost

Select any step in the list to inspect it here.

Previous

None

Next

Calculate cost to a later expansion →

Expansion costs

The verified formula does not raise prices smoothly. It steps up at fixed points, so the chart below shows those breaks instead of implying a smooth curve.

$0$25,575$51,150$76,725$102,3001102030405060
Purchase cost — Values come from the verified room formula. Where the game does not change the multiplier, the price still rises with the step number.

Where the price steps up

  • Shop Expansion 1 to Shop Expansion 19 — ×1
  • Shop Expansion 20 to Shop Expansion 24 — ×1.5
  • Shop Expansion 25 to Shop Expansion 60 — ×2

Expansion & customer buying power

Rooms feed the same customer-money rule the Customer Money Calculator uses. This compares that rule only; it says nothing about whether the room is worth buying.

A Shop Level alone does not tell us how far you have expanded. Add your current expansion above and the next step appears here.

Unlocking the warehouse: Unlocking the warehouse adds a flat $500 to the customer-money base before any warehouse room is bought.

Each shop room adds $250 to that base and each warehouse room adds $400.

The base is capped at $30,000, so late upgrades can add less than the full amount, or nothing at all.

Expansion changes the money customers can carry. It does not change how many customers arrive, and it does not promise a sale.

Open the Customer Money Calculator →

How expansion works

Six things the verified data does and does not say about expansion.

  • The price is keyed to the room

    Shop and warehouse rooms each have their own formula, based on which room you are buying. Two players buying room 12 pay the same price regardless of their Shop Level.

  • Shop expansions are bought in sequence

    The game refuses a new expansion until the previous one is done, so your current expansion also tells the page which steps are already behind you.

  • No level gate is published for a room

    The data used here ships the room prices but no per-step Shop Level requirement, so this page prints none. Where a level does matter is customer money, which counts every Shop Level.

  • No last step is published either

    Because the game data has no final expansion, the range on this page is a browsing bound. Nothing here says a shop is “complete”, however many rooms it has.

  • Rooms raise customer money

    Shop rooms, the warehouse unlock and warehouse rooms all feed the base the game rolls customer money from. That is a buying-power effect, not a traffic effect.

  • Reaching a level is not buying a room

    The page only knows what you enter. Your Shop Level never gets turned into an assumed expansion count, so an unset expansion stays unset instead of becoming “0”.

Expansion questions

How do shop expansions work?
Shop expansions are bought one at a time, each with its own price. The price rises with the room number and steps up at fixed points, so a later room costs more than an earlier one.
Does reaching a Shop Level expand my shop automatically?
No. A room still has to be bought and paid for. The data used here does not publish a Shop Level requirement for any room, so this page does not print one either.
How much does the next expansion cost?
Enter your current expansion above and the next step and its price appear. The price depends on the room number you are buying, not on how much money you have.
How much does it cost to max the shop?
That is a target-cost question, so it belongs in the planner: it prices every step between your current expansion and the one you pick. This page only shows what each step costs on its own. Shop Expansion Calculator
Is warehouse expansion separate from shop expansion?
Yes. It is a separate progression with a separate price formula, it starts from the warehouse being unlocked, and it adds a different amount to customer money. Warehouse Expansion Calculator
Does expansion affect customer buying power?
Yes. Rooms feed the base that the customer-money rule rolls from, so a bigger shop raises the range customers can carry. Unlocking the warehouse adds a flat bonus on top of that.
Does expansion guarantee more sales?
No. Affordability is only one part of a sale: what you stocked, how it is priced and who walks in all matter too. Expansion changes buying power, not demand.
Does this page know whether I can afford the next room?
No. It never sees your cash, so it prints the cost and leaves the decision to you. Expansion also competes with stock, licences and wages for the same money.

Continue in shop intelligence

Expansion costs are derived from the verified TCG Card Shop Simulator 1.0 room formulas, not from player reports. Bought steps are inferred from the current expansion you enter, because the game sells these in sequence.