Merchants

[CommerceTeam Linden]

Today, Linden Lab launched Automatic Notification System (ANS). ANS allows those Merchants that used Xstreet with the Magic Box Delivery System to confirm that a delivery has completed and send order details in a consistent format to a specified URL.

In order to support ANS with Direct Delivery purchases, we have made ANS available in Merchant Admin under Store setup on the Marketplace web site. Note that the Marketplace version will only support sending data URLs; it will NOT support sending data to inworld objects. For more details on how this system will work, please see this user created content on the wiki.

Before we can retire Magic Boxes, we will need to complete support for limited quantity items (or items that are “no copy” for the merchant).

The Commerce Team

[Dilbert Dilweg Contributor]

Nice. Thanks!

[Niall Braveheart]

Great news, I know many merchants have been waiting for this before starting  to move to DD.

Thank you for taking the time and effort to document this so clearly Darrius.

[Etienne Brando]

Thanks so much for this explanation of the approach for supporting ANS. The user created document on the WIKI is also very helpful. The treatment of the "Region" and the "VerifyKey" is a little disjointed. These should also be included comments in the section titled "Basic ANS Transaction Record" since they are also included with each notification.

In any case thanks again  to the Commerce team. Those of us who need ANS will probably need to support duplicate ANS messages until all products are migrated to the Direct Delivery method.   

[Etienne Brando]

The Knowledgebase article title "Selling in the Marketplace" needs to be updated to include information about how a merchant can use the Automated Notification service.

[Ann Otoole Advisor]

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CommerceTeam Linden wrote:

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Before we can retire Magic Boxes, we will need to complete support for limited quantity items (or items that are “no copy” for the merchant).

The Commerce Team

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Will this be done and tested by June 1st?

[Argus Collingwood Member]

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CommerceTeam Linden wrote:

Before we can retire Magic Boxes, we will need to complete support for limited quantity items (or items that are “no copy” for the merchant).

The Commerce Team

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What about getting the database sorted out too. That is a must before we upload the rest of our items to DD.

[Kampu Oyen]

>Will this be done and tested by June 1st?

Legally, I don't see how they can risk not doing it at this point, since we've already publicly explained what it would imply that they are trying to accomplish by not doing it.

[Darrius Gothly Member]

Sadly the ANS for Direct Delivery has a Severe bug and IS NOT SAFE TO USE YET!! The ANS Transaction being sent via the Marketplace service is duplicating the Item ID# (the numeric part of the Product's listing page) into the Location field. The Location Field is supposed to have the Order Line Item ID number instead, showing which line item in an Order correlates to the ANS Transaction. As long as that field contains the wrong data, you CANNOT track an ANS transaction back to the specific line item in an Order.

Please watch and vote for this issue on the JIRA:

ANS/SLM duplicates ItemID field into Location Field but should put Order Line Item ID# in Location

[Blitz Rage]

DD works really well. I am impressed. However I did like seeing in local chat when a delivery was made or when an item was bought. Thanks for the hard work!!