Nicki Nikita Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 I have no idea if this is the right place to ask this, hopefully it is.Can someone please tell me if there's a way to be notified of inworld store sails by IM/email when I'm offline like the marketplace does? A who-bought-what kind of thing so you know what's selling? If so, where can I find such a thing ?Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void Singer Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 it must be integrated into a vendor script.... the vendor will then send the message from the money event, or an item set to buy copy could trigger from the changed event (there is a bug that causes changed owner to fire in your copy even though the owner did not change... so if it fires and the owner is the same as before it was bough, but you won't know by who, and I would not rely on that working forever).... it can be as simple as sending you a message with llInstantMessage if you have IM to e-mail enabled, or using llEmail to send it to any address you specify Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Ahren Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Should be easy to write a script like that. I don't know of a pre-written one that does exactly what you want, but I know of one that sends you an email when an item that you sold is rezzed. You can find it here: http://www.free-lsl-scripts.com/freescripts.plx?ID=1327 You just need to modify it so that it sends you an email a bit earlier, i.e., when the item is sold, rather than rezzed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dora Gustafson Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Nicki Nikita wrote: Can someone please tell me if there's a way to be notified of inworld store sails by IM/email when I'm offline like the marketplace does? A who-bought-what kind of thing so you know what's selling? If so, where can I find such a thing ? I never had any use for that. I just look in my Account/Transaction History where I get the who bought what , where and when to what price:) I know this is not what you asked for but I had to say it anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin Pinion Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 All my in-world vendors do that. I have them send me email with the buyer's name and key, and the purchase price. I do it so I have a record on my computer that I can work with in a database. It's very simple, you just add the email command to the money event, as Void said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkie Minotaur Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 I wonder why you would use E-Mail to keep records - I write such structured data in a database, there are many advantages to using a db for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolig Loon Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 It all depends on your sales volume. If you are making dozens of sales an hour, a flood of e-mails will be very annoying. A database is a much better choice. However, if you get a couple of sales a day like Dora and me, a private database is overkill. Your transaction history with LL is more than adequate for record-keeping. A nice heads-up e-mail is just enough to remind you to look in the transaction log. Or, as Dora says, you can easily do without notification at all and be pleasantly surprised when you see your balance increase. :smileyhappy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void Singer Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Darkie Minotaur wrote: I wonder why you would use E-Mail to keep records - I write such structured data in a database, there are many advantages to using a db for that. because searching g-mail for filtered results is easier than building your own DB, finding a host, setting it up, paying for the host..... =) all the methods are more reliable than LL's method, because for networked vendors you can get confirmation that it was paid for AND confirmation that it was sent (and if you include a rez script, confirmation that it was received and rezzed) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkie Minotaur Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Yes and no - I'd say: It depends on what you are doing - not just on how much sales you have. If you do a bit of customer intelligence and marketing, a database helps a lot - even at a few sales a day. If it's just to keep track, I totally agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicki Nikita Posted March 7, 2011 Author Share Posted March 7, 2011 Everyone has alot of good thoughts. For now I'll keep using the Account/Transaction History I suppose. Thanks for the replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin Pinion Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Darkie Minotaur wrote: I wonder why you would use E-Mail to keep records - I write such structured data in a database, there are many advantages to using a db for that. I don't have heavy sales volume so I like seeing when a purchase happens, and I can parse my email folder with a short bit of code to move the data elsewhere when I want to. One big plus for starting with customized email is that you can collect the avatar key, which I needed recently in order to send automated IMs about a product update. You can't get keys from LL's sales reports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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