Business accounts and money#

Your firm can hold money in one or more accounts — for example, separate pots for wages, supplies, and profit. This guide covers funding them, moving money around, and deciding who's allowed to spend. Examples use a firm called Acme.

The default account#

When you created your firm it got one account automatically — its corporate account. The simple money commands act on whichever account is the default:

/business deposit Acme 5000     # move your money into the firm
/business balance Acme          # what the firm is holding
/business withdraw Acme 1000    # take money back out

Paying into a firm#

/firm deposit <firm> <amount> [memo] is an alias for /firm pay into <firm> <amount> [memo]. Anyone with the normal payment permission can pay from their personal balance into a firm's default account; you do not need to work for that firm. Tab completion suggests only firms you own or work for. Type another firm's name manually to pay it. An optional memo is recorded in the ledger. Withdrawals and account-specific deposits retain their existing finance permissions.

List and create accounts#

See all of the firm's accounts:

/business account list Acme

Each row shows the account's ID, whether it's the default, and a short shop code highlighted in light blue (you'll use that to point a ChestShop at the account — see ChestShops for your firm).

Open another account, and switch the default if you like:

/business account create Acme Wages
/business account setdefault Acme <accountId>

Use the account ID from account list wherever a command asks for <accountId>.

Account display names can repeat, including across firms. Choose a descriptive label such as Wages, then use the account's numeric ID to select the right wallet. Labels do not reserve names across players, firms or shop aliases. Shop aliases have separate rules: clearing an old alias keeps it reserved to the same account so old signs cannot be redirected to someone else's wallet.

Move money to and from a specific account#

/business account deposit Acme <accountId> 2000
/business account withdraw Acme <accountId> 500

Move money between your firm’s accounts#

Use the account IDs from /business account list <firm>:

/business account transfer Acme 42 51 1000
/business account transfer Acme 42 51 1000 July reserve funding

This transfers directly from account #42 to #51 without passing through your personal balance. Both accounts must be live and linked to Acme, including any subaccounts. You need the same finance permission and source-account spending authority as for a withdrawal. The optional memo is saved in the transaction history. Transfers to the same account, to another firm's account, or for more than the source balance are rejected.

Pay people and other firms#

Pay a wage from a firm account straight to a player:

/business account pay player Acme <accountId> Steve 1000

Pay another business:

/business account pay business Acme <accountId> RivalCorp 2500

Who can see vs. who can spend#

Each account has two kinds of access:

• Members can see the account and its history.
• Authorizers can also take money out of it.

Your staff are kept in sync with each account automatically based on their roles: ADMIN-role staff become members and authorizers (view and spend), while FINANCIAL-role staff become members only. To let a FINANCIAL employee actually spend, add them as an authorizer by hand. Only the firm's owner can change an account's members or authorizers:

/business account members Acme <accountId>
/business account addauthorizer Acme <accountId> Steve
/business account removeauthorizer Acme <accountId> Steve

Review the firm's spending#

History for one account, or for the whole firm at once:

/business account transactions Acme <accountId>
/business transactions Acme

Where to go next#

• Route shop sales into a firm account: ChestShops for your firm.
• The complete list: the Business reference.
• Background on the different kinds of accounts: Accounts & money.