Vendors
Manage every vendor in your store, run bulk updates, configure tracking, and tune store-wide vendor settings.
The Vendors page is where you look after every vendor object you have rezzed across Second Life. Use it to find a specific vendor, change its product or price, run a discount campaign across many vendors at once, configure your store's locator HUD, and adjust store-wide settings like vendor name prefixes.
If you are setting up a vendor for the first time, start with Vendor Setup. This page covers the ongoing management that comes after your first sale.
The page lives at stores.allomancy.com/vendors.
Reviewing your vendors
The list is sorted with the most recently created vendor first. Each row shows:
- Name: the vendor object's name in Second Life. With the region color indicator on, a small colored square also appears here.
- Action: opens this vendor's edit dialog.
- Product: the product this vendor is paired with.
- Type: an icon for the vendor type, with a tooltip on hover. The column shows Default, Multi-menu vendor, Multi-vendor, and Gacha vendor badges.
- State: a row of icons that highlight notable settings. See State icons below.
- Version: the inworld vendor's script version.
- Region: a link that opens the SLurl of the vendor in a new tab.
Three toggles next to the vendor list narrow the results:
- Region color indicator: adds a colored square next to vendors so you can group same-region rows visually.
- Show only vendors with discount or price override: hides any vendor that is selling at the unmodified product price.
- Show only group-only vendors: shows only vendors flagged as group-only.
State icons
| Icon meaning | When it appears |
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| Profit shares | The vendor splits sales with collaborators. |
| Vendor discount | The vendor has an individual discount applied. The percentage appears on hover. |
| Group discount | The vendor has a group discount that differs from its regular discount. |
| Price override | The vendor sells at a custom price instead of the product's price. The amount appears on hover. |
| Group only | The vendor only sells to customers in the same active group as the vendor. |
| Block credits | Customers cannot pay this vendor with store credit. |
| Tracking disabled | Customers cannot find this vendor through the locator HUD or website. |
Hover any icon for the full tooltip and the specific values applied to that vendor.
Editing a vendor
Click on any row to open the Vendor setup dialog. The dialog has four numbered steps along the top: Main settings, Discounts, Vendor Type, and Profit Shares. You can move between steps freely, and Save is available from any step.
Configuring main vendor settings
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Product: the product paired with this vendor.
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Block use of credits: stop customers from paying with store credit at this vendor.
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Only sell for group members: when on, only residents whose active group matches the vendor's group can purchase.
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Touch to acquire when price is L$0: when the vendor price is L$0, customers receive the product by clicking the vendor instead of having to pay L$1. The vendor owner always sees the menu, so test from another account.
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Trackable: when on, customers can find this vendor through the locator HUD or website.
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Override Price: turn this on to sell at a custom L$ price instead of the product's price.
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Apply image on vendor face: paint the product image on a specific face of the vendor mesh. Face numbers run 0 through 7.
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Click Action: change what happens when a customer clicks the vendor. The dialog exposes two values plus an Unchanged option:
Click Action What it sets the vendor to Menu Open the vendor menu when clicked. Pay Open the pay dialog when clicked.
Setting discounts on the vendor
The Discounts step has two percentage fields:
- Discount: a discount that always applies at this vendor.
- Group Discount: a discount that applies to customers in the same group as the vendor.
Both are independent of any product or category discount. Run a small test purchase if you need to confirm the final price after multiple discounts apply.
Choosing the vendor type
Choose one of three vendor types from the dropdown:
- Default: a regular single-product vendor.
- Multi-menu Vendor: a vendor that browses multiple products. When you select this type, a Vendor category picker appears so you can limit which products show up on this vendor.
- Gacha: a vendor that pulls from a gacha you have configured. When you select this type, a Gacha Selection picker appears, with a shortcut to create a new gacha if you do not have one yet.
The vendor type step needs vendor script version 1.20 or later. Older vendors show a "Please update your vendors" notice instead.
Splitting profit on the vendor
The Profit Shares step lets you assign per-vendor profit shares to other residents. Use it when this vendor's sales should split between collaborators.
To delete a vendor entirely, click at the bottom of the dialog. A confirmation warns you that the vendor will be deleted inworld as well.
Running a bulk update across vendors
The Bulk Update button at the top of the page opens a single dialog that can change discounts, price overrides, credit-block, click action, and tracking on a whole range of vendors at once. Each kind of change is opt-in:
- Toggle Set Discounts to update the regular and group discounts.
- Toggle Set price override to set a price across the matched vendors.
- Toggle Set credit block to enable or disable credit blocking.
- The Click Action and Vendor Tracking selects accept an Unchanged option so you can skip them.
Use the filters to choose which vendors get touched:
- Filter by Product: a partial product name match.
- Filter by Region: a Second Life region name.
- Filter by UUIDs: paste one or more vendor UUIDs separated by commas or whitespace. You can select your vendors inworld and click Copy Keys in the edit menu to grab them.
Click Update to run the update. With no filters set at all, the update touches all of your vendors.
A bulk update with no filter touches every vendor in your store. Read the confirmation prompt before clicking through.
Configuring tracking and the locator HUD
The locator HUD is the inworld tool customers use to find a specific vendor in your store. Two things control how a vendor appears in it:
- Trackable on the vendor itself (under Main settings). When off, the vendor is hidden from the HUD and from the website locator.
- Vendor Tracking at the store level. Click at the top of the Vendors page to open it. The dialog lets you pick custom Target and Arrow texture UUIDs so the HUD matches your store's look. A Download template link supplies a base file. Click Request HUD to receive a fresh copy of the locator HUD inworld.
Configuring store-wide vendor settings
Click at the top of the Vendors page to open Vendor Settings, which apply to every vendor in your store:
- Custom payment field: when on, customers can pay any value at a vendor. If they have store credit, the missing amount is deducted from their credit. Otherwise the purchase is rejected.
- Prefix: text shown before each vendor's name.
- Suffix: text shown after each vendor's name.
Permissions
Managing vendors needs the Manage Vendors permission. Store owners always have it. To grant it to a staff member, see Store Managers.