Discogs is the largest music database and the largest marketplace for physical music, and it has the deepest buyer network of any of them. WAXED is a newer marketplace built on the same catalogue of releases, for sellers who want a lower fee, a storefront they control, real sold-price data in the open, and one inventory across their shop, their Discogs store and online.
Most sellers who use WAXED don't leave Discogs. They list in both places from one inventory.
Fees as of August 2026· Discogs figures from Discogs' published help pages
The two platforms sell the same records from the same catalogue, and differ mainly in what a sale costs, what data is exposed on the page, and what a seller's inventory is connected to.
| WAXED | Discogs | |
|---|---|---|
| Seller fee | 8% of the item price. Never applied to shipping. | 9% of the item price and the shipping cost, minimum $0.10 and maximum $150 per item. |
| Listing & monthly fees | None. No listing fee, no subscription. | None. Free to list; you are charged only when an item sells. |
| Payment processing | Stripe, 2.9% + 30¢. Charged by Stripe, separate from the 8%, netted from the same payout. | Charged separately by the payment processor, at the processor's own rates. |
| Payouts | Stripe bank payout. Proceeds accumulate to a balance; withdraw any amount over $10. | Buyer pays the seller directly through the payment processor; fees are deducted from that payment automatically. |
| Price data | Sold-price history charts and a condition- and region-adjusted price estimate on the public release page. No login, no captcha, and available over a public JSON API. | Lowest, median and highest value calculated from the 30 most recent Marketplace sales, plus a Last Sold date. Log in to a free account, and complete a captcha, to see the sales detail. |
| Storefront | A storefront at waxed.market/users/your-name with colour themes, a drag-arranged layout, a 3D shelf and record-spine displays, and structured data for search engines. | A seller page and inventory listing within the Discogs Marketplace. |
| POS & inventory sync | Square sync in both directions — pull the Square catalogue in as listings, push listings out to Square. Webhooks mark a listing sold the moment it rings up in the shop. | — |
| Discogs inventory import | One-click OAuth import of your Discogs listings, collection and order history, kept current by a background worker. Also imports CSV. | Native. |
| Bulk & set selling | Crates publish a set of records as one bundle listing with its own public page, priced as the sum of its members. Bulk actions reprice, auto-price, restatus, mark sold or export up to 100 listings at once. | Bulk inventory editing and percentage or flat-amount price adjustments across your inventory. |
| Agent & API access | A Model Context Protocol server at mcp.waxed.market with 43 tools. Catalogue and price reads need no key; writes use a dealer key or OAuth. Documented at /llms.txt. | A documented REST API at api.discogs.com. |
| Catalogue | ~19.3 million releases, indexed from Discogs release data. Every listing is matched to a specific pressing. | ~19.35 million releases — the source database, built and maintained by its contributor community. |
Discogs figures read from Discogs' own help pages on 5 August 2026: What Are The Fees For Selling On Discogs? and Where Can I Access Sales History?. Release count from api.discogs.com, 5 August 2026. WAXED figures are the terms published on the WAXED FAQ. Fees change; check both sources before relying on a number here.
WAXED charges a flat 8% of the item price and never charges a fee on shipping; Discogs charges 9% on both the item and the shipping cost, with a $0.10 minimum and a $150 maximum per item. Neither platform charges to list.
The gap comes from two places: one percentage point, and what the percentage is applied to. On a $30 record shipped for $6, Discogs' fee is 9% of $36 — $3.24. WAXED's is 8% of $30 — $2.40. The difference widens as shipping gets heavier, which is why it matters most on box sets and multi-LP orders.
Card processing is charged separately on both platforms by the payment processor, not by the marketplace. On WAXED that is Stripe at 2.9% + 30¢, withheld from the same payout and shown as its own line. Payouts run to a connected bank account and can be withdrawn at any balance over $10. Sales you ring up in your own shop through Square carry no WAXED fee at all — the 8% applies only when something sells online through WAXED.
Yes — connect your Discogs account from the Integrations page and WAXED imports your entire Discogs listing inventory and collection in one pass, each copy matched to its pressing in the catalogue.
The connection is OAuth, not a file upload, and a background worker keeps it current rather than leaving you with a one-time snapshot. It also pulls your Discogs order history in, so past orders arrive with the inventory and you can work Discogs orders from the same place as WAXED ones. If you would rather not connect an account, CSV import does the same job.
To be precise about the direction: the sync brings inventory in, and it delists out. WAXED does not create listings on Discogs on your behalf. What it does do is pull a copy down from Discogs the moment that copy sells on WAXED or rings up in Square — the case that otherwise ends with a record sold twice and one buyer refunded.
Four things a seller can check in a minute: sold-price data in the open, Square POS sync, crates, and an agent interface.
Release pages carry a sold-price history chart and a price estimate adjusted for media condition and region, and the estimate reports its own confidence and how many sales it rests on. It is on the public page — no account, no captcha — and the same figures are available as JSON for anyone building against them. Discogs publishes low, median and high from its 30 most recent Marketplace sales and asks you to log in and clear a captcha for the detail.
Square syncs both ways: pull your shop catalogue in as listings, push listings out to Square. Webhooks mark a listing sold the instant it rings up at the counter, and the same event delists that copy on Discogs. Shop, Discogs store and marketplace draw down one stock count.
A crate is a set of records published as one listing — a bulk pick, a themed selection, a whole collection — priced as the sum of its members and given its own public page that a buyer can take in a single checkout. Alongside it, bulk actions reprice, auto-price, restatus, mark sold or export up to a hundred listings in one call.
WAXED runs a Model Context Protocol server at mcp.waxed.market exposing 43 tools, so an AI assistant can search the catalogue, price a pressing, create and reprice listings, run crates and handle orders directly rather than by driving a browser. Catalogue and pricing reads need no key; anything that writes needs a dealer key or OAuth, and no tool can move money or issue a refund. Discogs publishes a REST API, which is a different thing — an agent can be pointed at WAXED, and has to be programmed against Discogs. The tool list is documented at /llms.txt.
Catalogue and reach — and neither is close. Discogs has been building the canonical database of physical music since 2000, and it has far more buyers than WAXED does.
The Discogs database is a contributor project: two decades of collectors submitting pressings, correcting matrix numbers and arguing about label variants. It is the reason a 1969 UK first press and its 2015 reissue are separate entries at all, and it is the source of the release data WAXED indexes — roughly 19.3 million releases on both sides of the table above, because they are the same releases. WAXED is a marketplace built on that catalogue, not a replacement for it.
Reach follows from the same history. Discogs has an established global buyer base that a marketplace in its first years does not, and for a record that needs the widest possible audience, that is the honest answer. Its Collection and Wantlist tooling is mature and heavily used, its forums are the closest thing the format has to a town square, and it ships a mobile app. If you sell one grail a year, sell it where the most people are looking.
Which is why the useful question is usually not which one to pick. Sellers keep the Discogs listings and add WAXED, run both from the imported inventory, and let the delist sync keep the two from colliding.
A note on the fees above. Both sets of figures are current as of August 2026. The Discogs selling fee, its minimum and its maximum were read on 5 August 2026 from Discogs' own fee page, which is where Discogs publishes its current terms and where you should check them. WAXED's terms are published on the WAXED FAQ. Marketplaces change their fees; if you are making a decision on the strength of a single percentage point, read both sources rather than this page.
Onboarding sets up your storefront, payouts and inventory in one pass, and the Discogs import runs from the same screen. You can keep your Discogs store exactly as it is.