SphynxDraft/RenoSix

Create Your Products

1) Create your products for sale. If your products are items to be rezzed (like furniture or buildings), remember to set the next-owner permissions while they are rezzed inworld.

2) Create the pictures to be used for your vendors and upload them to SL. (The vendors will call the image by the UUID, and there is no UUID if the image hasn't been uploaded to SL.)

3) Create your shipping package (box, bag, crate, whatever you want to be seen when your customers unpack everything.) You cannot use folders with CasperVend - the dropbox is only capable of sending packaged products.

Package Your Products

1) Each product (with its respective parts) goes in one shipping package.

2) Add any relevant notecards, landmarks, product pictures, etc. that you want the customers to have for that product into that shipping package at this time.

3) Make sure each product package has its own unique name.

4) Unpack your CasperVend shipping crate.

5) Rez a copy of the CasperTech DropBox (the box, not the sphere) and start putting your product packages and a copy of your store landmark in it.

Set Up Product Listings

1) Once everything is in, and the dropbox has finished sending data up to the website, click the DropBox and select "Admin" from the popup menu.

2) Let it take you to the CasperVend website where you can create your account and log in.

3) Click "Products" on the left column. (The page will appear empty, this is normal until you begin setting up products.)

4) Click the button

5) You will now be presented with the product setup screen for your individual product.

6) See the product options page for details on how to set up products.

7) To save space in your dropbox, for each product's vendor texture, simply right-click on the texture in your inworld inventory, select "copy UUID", and paste that in the UUID box within the product listing page.

8) Remember to click "save" at the bottom when you are done filling in product information.

9) Repeat for each product you want to set up at this time.

Rez Your Vendors

1) Choose a vendor style from the CasperVend folder and rez it out.

2) Grant debit permissions - the vendor will not function without them.

3) At this point, you will see one or more products magically appear on your inworld vendor.

Vendor Configuration

To get to the vendor's configuration page, click the main (usually the largest, or the most centered) panel on the vendor, and select "admin" from the popup menu.

Show Specific Product(s) On Specific Vendor(s)

1) If you want to have only certain products showing on a specific vendor, you will need to use profiles'.

2) If you are trying to only load a single product on a "static" vendor, then use the individual product pulldown menu at the bottom of the options on the vendor's configuration page, right above the column of product pictures.

How do I....?

• ...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 full 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.

FAQ / Troubleshooting

Q. I'm setting up my vendors, but they're not booting up and I don't see the debit perm windows!

A1. Vendors don't finish the boot process because they're waiting for you to grant debit permissions. If you are using a v3 viewer, they can accumulate behind a tiny "chicklet toast" in the corner of your screen. Check the upper right and the lower right to see if they're hanging out there waiting for you to answer.

A2. All viewer3-style viewers actually store your popup notifications, unless you dismiss them. Over time, undismissed notifications build up - if you have too many, you may not be able to log in, OR you may not actually SEE any new notifications at all. You can see details of the problem AND the fix over on the Firestorm wiki.