Trading Cards New York: Turn Any Photo Into a Pro Card

Cards ship within one to two business days of your order being placed and typically arrive in New York in two to three business days total. That means if you order on a Monday, there's a strong chance your card is at your door by Thursday or Friday. We ship from Des Moines, Iowa, and New York is well within our standard delivery window. Shipping is free for all USA orders, including every address in New York — Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, Long Island, upstate, and everywhere in between.

The best photos are well-lit, in focus, and feature the subject clearly in the frame. Action shots from games work beautifully — a player mid-swing, a goalkeeper diving, a sprinter leaving the blocks. Portrait-style photos in uniform also produce excellent cards. The higher the resolution of your original image, the sharper and more detailed the printed card will be. Avoid heavily filtered or very dark photos if you can. If you're unsure whether a photo will work well, the design preview in our tool gives you a real-time look before you commit to printing.

Every Snapshot card — every single one, regardless of which product you order — includes a free magnetic case. There's no add-on fee, no upsell checkout page, no option to accidentally miss it. The magnetic case ships with the card. It's the same style collectors use to protect their most valuable cards, and we include it because a card you're proud of shouldn't be sliding around loose in an envelope. It's one of the details that makes Snapshot cards feel like a complete, premium product rather than just a print job.

Yes, and it's one of the most popular ways people use Snapshot. You can order individual cards for each player on a roster — each with their own photo, name, position, and number — or order multi-card packs that bundle multiple cards together. Team sets make exceptional end-of-season gifts, coach appreciation presents, or banquet giveaways. Youth leagues across New York use Snapshot to create team card sets that players and families genuinely treasure. Pricing stays consistent across orders, and free shipping applies regardless of how many cards you're getting.

The MEGA is an 11-by-15-inch poster card — printed on professional card stock in the same trading-card format as our standard cards, just dramatically larger. It's $49.99 and makes an incredible display piece. Think of it as the bridge between a trading card and wall art. It's popular for retirement gifts, senior athlete tributes, championship commemorations, and bedroom or trophy room displays. If you want the card to be the focal point of a room rather than something you flip through in a binder, the MEGA is the right call. Free shipping applies here too.

That's a fair question, and the honest answer is: it depends on what you value in a collectible. Snapshot cards aren't licensed or graded by third-party services, so they won't fit into that specific collector ecosystem. But as personal memorabilia — the kind that documents real moments from your own life or the life of someone you care about — they're genuinely premium. They're printed on professional card stock, designed to match the visual language of real trading cards, and protected by a magnetic case. Families and coaches who order them tend to keep them displayed, not boxed away.

You can customize quite a bit beyond the photo. Depending on the template you choose, you can edit the player name, jersey number, position, team name, season year, and stat fields. This is what separates a Snapshot card from a simple photo print — the card has the full visual and informational structure of a real sports card. You're not just slapping a headshot on a rectangle. You're building a card that looks like it was produced by a design team, because in a very real sense, it was — just with your subject at the center of it.

No minimum. You can order a single card for $17.99 and that's a complete, legitimate order. There's no pressure to buy in bulk to make the economics work. Of course, if you're outfitting a full team or putting together a gift set, packs are available and priced accordingly — up to $49.99 for multi-card packs. But the person who wants exactly one card for exactly one occasion is just as welcome as a coach ordering forty cards for a season-end celebration. Every order gets free shipping and a magnetic case regardless of size.