CasperVend 2/DropBoxes

Last updated: 26 June, 2013

About the Dropbox

The dropbox is your product server. You need to have your boxed products, textures, and any informational notecards IN the dropbox, in order for them to be uploaded to the website.

The dropbox needs to STAY REZZED OUT in order for the vendors to be able to deliver your informational notecards or your purchased products - if the vendors can't find the dropbox, they won't be able to deliver the product to your customer!

Organisation

How you organize your dropboxes is ENTIRELY up to you.

• It doesn't matter if you use just one box, or many.
• It doesn't matter which items are in which box
• It doesn't matter where your box is in Second Life (caveats: see [[#Placement|Placement]).

There is one organisational limitation that you must always remember:

• Be careful to give everything a unique name. For example, don't name a texture the same as one of your items - If you have two items with the same name (in different dropboxes), the system assumes it is a delivery backup and may deliver either one!

Placement

It doesn't matter where you put your DropBox. However, there are certain caveats you should be aware of:

• The land must let YOU run scripts - either enabled for all, or you are in the land group.
• You must have continual access, in order to add/remove products.

Putting items into your DropBox

The dropbox only seems no-modify in your inventory. This is due to the dropbox script being no-modify. Once you rez it out, the prim WILL be modifiable and allow you to add contents.

1) Rez the dropbox out

2) Right-click on the dropbox

3) Select "Edit", then go to "Contents" tab.

4) Drag your boxed items, textures and any notecards you have ready into the dropbox.

DropBoxes CANNOT accept a folder AS a folder - it will always assume the contents of the folders are separate products. If you have multiple items for one product, they need to go in THEIR OWN box / bag / shipping crate / package before going in the dropbox.

Limits

DropBoxes are limited to a maximum of 400 items, including the dropbox script it ships with. However, we highly recommend that you keep your boxes below 200 items. Above this number, we have witnessed inventory contents randomly going missing (a Second Life simulator issue, not unique to any vendor system).

There's no limit to the number of DropBoxes you can have rezzed, barring prim/impact limits on the parcel of land you are using for them.