CasperVend 2/Quick Start

Getting Started

You can get selling with CasperVend FAST! Just follow these steps to get started..

 

1) Rez the included DropBox.

This is your "Server" and must remain rezzed inworld, since it will deliver your items. We recommend a limit of around 200 items per DropBox just to keep things from taking forever to load as you add new products. We recommend that you have a second copy of your dropbox(es) on another sim, to provide a backup for delivery. See the DropBoxes page for more details.

 

2) Make sure your packaged product, the picture for it, and any notecard that goes with the product do NOT have identical names!

Delivery works by NAME, not UUID - if you have different things with identical names, it may deliver ANY of them, at random, which means your customer may get a picture or a notecard instead of your packaged product!

IMPORTANT: This means that if your product is in multiple pieces - like a set of clothing - that you WILL need to put it in a box, bag or shipping crate. CasperVend cannot deliver a folder out of the DropBox.

 

3) Place all of your products into the contents of your dropbox(es).

Right click the box, go to "Edit", then the "Contents" tab. Then, simply drag the products from your inventory into the DropBox. The box will upload your items in around 30 seconds - please pay attention to any messages the box issues, it will warn you if you have put items into it that you don't have permission to transfer. If you get a warning about no transfer items, please check the contents of the prims in your build for no-transfer scripts, animations, textures, notecards, etc.

IMPORTANT: Your DropBox MUST stay rezzed, or your deliveries will fail.

ALSO IMPORTANT: The DropBox CANNOT deliver a folder - you must package all the parts for each product in its own bag/box/shipping crate.

 

4) Place a texture (and notecard, if applicable) for each of your products into the DropBox(es).

The textures must be full perm. Ideally, these textures should contain the price, title and permissions of the item, as well as a photograph of it - but this is entirely at your discretion. Once you have the textures selected for each product, you may delete the corresponding texture from the dropbox to save space. Alternately, you may paste the UUID of the texture from inworld into the appropriate slot in the product listing.

IMPORTANT: Textures you set to products are viewable on the delivery status page. Please don't add any textures that you don't want people to be able to download.

 

5) Put your store's landmark in the DropBox

Name your landmark something simple like " (your store name) - main location " - this way if you have to move later, you only need to replace the landmark in the dropbox, without having to update the landmark on every single product.

 

6) Rez a vendor (Not the CasperVend Touch or Headless, to begin with) and grant debit permissions.

These permissions are required in order for the vendor to handle money on your behalf - the vendor cannot operate without debit permissions. See the Debit_Permissions page for details.

 

7) When the vendor has loaded, touch the "CasperVend" logo in the bottom left hand corner of the vendor.

This will then ask to open a URL to our website - go ahead and open it up.

 

8) If you are new to CasperVend, please enter a secure password, otherwise, just log in.

If necessary, you can use the account creation instructions.

IMPORTANT: For your own security, please do not use the same password that you use in any other vending systems, or in Second Life.

 

9) Once you are logged in, click the large "Products" button on the left hand side, and then click "+ List New Product".

This is the page where you will be setting up all of your product information.

 

10) Please fill out information on one of your products.

You at least need to enter a name, price, set the permissions, and choose an Item and Texture. Everything else is optional. If you use alpha textures, the texture might not show properly on the CasperVend website - don't be concerned with this, the items will still show properly inworld.

IMPORTANT: Take extra care to set the permissions properly for your products - particularly if they're no copy. We allow customers to claim redeliveries of items which are marked as "copy" on the website.

NOTE: "Search" on a multi-product vendor does NOT mean inworld search. Vendor search allows you to find a product IN the set of products in the vendor with a specific keyword. If you want products to show on inworld search, you will need to set up your own keyword prims.

 

11) Repeat steps 9 & 10 for each product you want to configure.

You will see your vendor(s) inworld updating with all the products as you enter them!

 

Congratulations, you're now set up with your new CasperVend system!

Frequently Used Options

You can also...

• ...set up affiliate vendors
• ...set your vendors for a store-wide sale
• ...link your Marketplace via ANS (Marketplace store owner name MUST match CasperVend system owner name)
• ...keep backup dropboxes in case of sim/region failure
• ...import your sales data from other supported vending systems
• ...sell textures, if you have the TextureVend pack. See the TextureVend page for details.
• ...rez demos, if you have the HoloVend pack. See the holovendors page for details.

 

When you are ready to take advantage of the many additional options in CasperVend, see the complete user manual.

If you need help with your CasperVend system, please see Getting Help for information on how to get in touch with us.

Thanks for using CasperVend!