What would be the best way for a business to hold money?

[Rolig Loon]

A group cannot have an account.  All accounts in SL are individual, and it is a TOS violation to let anyone else have access to your own account (Sect. 4.1: "You may not sell, transfer or assign your Account or its contractual rights, licenses and obligations, to any third party (including, for the avoidance of doubt, permitting another individual to access your Account) without the prior written consent of Linden Lab.")  It's not very smart, either.  After all, giving access to your account also means taking responsibility for anything that someone else does with your account and its assets.

The smart thing to do is to agree among yourselves that one of you is going to be the banker for the group, and then trust that person to do the job honestly.  If you can't do that. you have no choice but to take any assets out of SL as soon as you earn them, and put them into a shared account outside of SL.

[Rolig Loon]

A group cannot have an account.  All accounts in SL are individual, and it is a TOS violation to let anyone else have access to your own account (Sect. 4.1: "You may not sell, transfer or assign your Account or its contractual rights, licenses and obligations, to any third party (including, for the avoidance of doubt, permitting another individual to access your Account) without the prior written consent of Linden Lab.")  It's not very smart, either.  After all, giving access to your account also means taking responsibility for anything that someone else does with your account and its assets.

The smart thing to do is to agree among yourselves that one of you is going to be the banker for the group, and then trust that person to do the job honestly.  If you can't do that. you have no choice but to take any assets out of SL as soon as you earn them, and put them into a shared account outside of SL.

[Innula Zenovka]

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BrahmaBull88 wrote: 

Note - I'm referring to a donation box or something similar? is it possible for multiple people to have access to one?

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The problem is that L$ have to belong to a particular account.   If you pay L$ to a donation box, they go straight into the account of the resident who owns the box.   If the box is scripted to make payments (e.g. a tip jar paying a commission or a vendor giving a refund) the L$ come out of the account of the resident who owns the box.

So yes, it would be possible to write a script to do what you describe but the money would always be the property of a single resident.    The only advantage would be convenience, since the other two partners in the business would not have to wait for the partner responsible for holding the funds to be online in order to get paid.