Real time alerts for UK Pokemon TCG shops, including the lesser-known specialists where stock often lands first. Pre-orders and release day drops vanish in minutes. StockWatch gives you the best chance of snagging product before it goes.
Built for Pokemon TCG collectors. Cheaper than generic web monitors, runs in the cloud while your laptop sleeps.
I had been paying £15 a month for a generic web-monitoring service to watch about a dozen Pokemon TCG shops. It was not specialised for the hobby. The local browser mode kept eating four gigs of RAM every time I had the dashboard open. My laptop fans sounded like a hairdryer. Alerts were slow because polls happened from my own machine, which was asleep half the time.
I wanted something cloud hosted, faster, cheaper, and actually designed for Pokemon collectors. So I built it. StockWatch runs in the cloud, polls 24/7 whether your laptop is on or not, and supports any Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento or custom-built store you point it at.
Joe, founder. Reach me at hello@stock-watch.co.uk if you spot anything broken or want a shop added.
Plenty of free Discord servers and a few paid Telegram bots cover the obvious shops. Here is the gap they leave open.
Most UK Pokemon alert services lock you into Telegram or a Discord server. Plenty of collectors do not want a fifth Discord. StockWatch supports email and browser push as proper notification channels, so you get pinged where you actually look.
Filter alerts by keyword (booster box, ETB, 30th Celebration). Skip the noise (single cards, sleeves, playmats, binders) with one-click filter packs. Distinguish first listings from restocks so you do not get spammed every poll.
Standard is £4 a month for 50 monitors. Power User is £20 for unlimited monitors and the full 5 second polling interval. No per-shop paywalls and no add-ons for cloud monitors. The free tier already includes Discord, email and 5 monitors.
Set-themed pages with what we know, where to buy, and how to set up alerts.
Out 16 September 2026, the first TCG set to launch worldwide on the same day. Every card is foil, every pack has a Pikachu, and Futuristic Rare is the new rarity.
Released May 2025. Charizard ex Special Illustration Rare leads the chase. Booster boxes are still around £135 at most UK shops when they restock, but they do not sit there for long.
Most of the UK Pokemon TCG market runs on Shopify or WooCommerce. Paste the URL of any shop on those platforms and you are set. From the big online specialists down to the smaller independent shops where stock often lands first, you are covered on every tier.
Shopify shops
Every plan, freeWooCommerce shops
Every plan, freeMagento shops
Power UserCustom CSS selectors
Every plan, freeVisual Selector
Every plan, freeUniversal auto-detect
Every plan, freePokemon Center UK & US
Drop Watchdog: Every plan, freeArgos, Smyths, Boots
On the roadmapPokemon Center puts up a virtual waiting room during high-demand drops, and that queue usually appears minutes before stock actually goes live. The Drop Watchdog (on every plan, including Free, UK and US) alerts you the moment it activates, so you are already at your laptop when the gate opens. You can check the live queue status board right now, or read our 30th Celebration launch guide for how to plan around a big drop.
Three steps. About a minute from sign up to first alert.
No card needed. You get 5 monitors, 60 second polling, Discord and email notifications. Takes about 30 seconds.
Paste the URL of any Pokemon TCG shop, including the smaller specialists most monitors ignore. StockWatch detects the platform and configures itself. Add a keyword filter like "30th celebration" or "etb" if you only care about specific products.
Email, browser push or Discord (or all three). Filter by event type (restock only, new listings only, price drops only). Different stores can route to different channels.
Start on free. Upgrade when you want more monitors or faster polling. Cancel any time from your account page.
Prices in GBP. Charged in GBP regardless of card country — your bank handles any conversion.
Sign up free, add your UK TCG stores, set your filters. The first restock will tell you whether it works for you.