Profit Share
Split revenue from a product or a vendor with collaborators in Second Life.
Profit share is how you let collaborators take a slice of each sale. Use it for co-creators on a product, region partners who host a vendor, blogger arrangements, or any other split where the L$ should not all go to one avatar.
Where profit shares live
Profit shares are configured in two places, and they are stored separately:
- Per product, on Step 3: Profit Share of the product edit dialog. This split is part of the product and applies wherever the product is sold.
- Per vendor, on Step 4: Profit Shares of the vendor edit dialog. This split applies only to sales from that specific vendor.
Both editors use the same recipient-and-percentage form.
Vendors that have at least one profit-share recipient show a yellow icon in the Vendors list State column, so you can spot them at a glance.
Adding a recipient
The form looks the same on both the product and vendor side.
Type the recipient's Second Life username at the top of the Profit Share step, click Add to look them up, then set the percentage in the new row (defaults to 1). Save the product or vendor dialog as you normally would; the list of profit shares is saved together with the rest. If the username is not found or is already on the list, Allomancy prompts you to try again or choose someone else.
Editing or removing a recipient
To change a percentage, click the percent field on a row and type a new value.
To remove a recipient, click on the right of that row.
Limits
The form enforces three rules:
- Each row's percentage must be between 1 and 100.
- The total of all percentages must be at most 100.
- The same resident cannot appear twice in the same list.
The footer below the rows shows a running total. When the total exceeds 100, the footer turns red with the message "Total percentage exceeds 100%" and the form refuses to save.
How payouts appear in Payments
Profit-share activity appears on the Payments tabs:
- On the Sent Payments tab with ProfitShare in the Source column when your store pays a collaborator.
- On the Received Payments tab with ProfitShare in the Source column when you are on the receiving end of someone else's profit share.
Both tabs offer a ProfitShares filter so you can narrow the list to profit-share movements only.
Permissions
Editing product profit shares needs the Manage Profit Share permission. Store owners always have it. Editing vendor profit shares is part of the Manage Vendors permission, because vendor profit shares are configured inside the vendor edit dialog.
To grant either permission to a staff member, see Store Managers.
When both the product and the vendor selling it have profit shares set, the vendor profit shares apply first; the product profit shares are then calculated on what remains.
Example. A product is sold for L$100. The vendor has a 10% profit share to one collaborator, and the product has a 20% profit share to a different collaborator. The vendor profit share takes L$10 first (10% of L$100). The product profit share is then applied to the remaining L$90, sending L$18 to the second collaborator (20% of L$90). The store keeps L$72.
If the store does not have an active subscription, Allomancy's 5% transaction fee is deducted from the gross price first; profit shares are then calculated on the post-commission amount.
L$ amounts are integers; any calculation that produces a fractional L$ is rounded down.