Viewer-Managed Marketplace

[CommerceTeam Linden]

As some of you may be aware, we’ve been working on a new Second Life feature called Viewer Managed Marketplace (VMM), which will streamline the process for Merchants of managing items for sale by using the Viewer to perform most operations. This project was announced at a recent TPV meeting.

In brief, VMM revolves around a new, specialized folder that contains the items the Merchant wants to sell. The main benefit of VMM is that it will allow Marketplace inventory to be managed and delivered to customers from the Merchant’s own inventory, which Merchants can manage directly from within the Viewer. Special commands on the items in that folder, such as “List on Marketplace,” will allow certain operations to be performed in the Viewer that must currently be performed from the Manage listings web page.

We are planning to have VMM available for Merchants to try out on Aditi in November or December 2014. Note that, even if the feature is complete, we are not planning to require Merchants to use VMM until after Valentine’s Day 2015. Please keep an eye on this forum for more details.