Setting up a business#

A firm is your company on the server. Once you create one it gets its own bank account, can employ other players, and can own ChestShops. This guide takes you from nothing to a running business with staff and money.

Everything below uses the /business command. It also answers to /firm and /company if you prefer.

Choose an available name#

Firm names must be available among active firms and disbanded firms whose names have not been released. Disbanding keeps the name reserved until an administrator explicitly releases it. The server can also reject names through its configured blocked-name list.

There is no shared reservation namespace across firms, players, account labels and shop aliases. Account labels can repeat; use account IDs to distinguish them. Shop aliases have their own uniqueness and permanent reservation rules, described in ChestShops for your firm.

Create your firm#

/business create Acme

That's it — you're now the proprietor (owner) of Acme. Creating the firm also:

• sets up five starter roles for your staff (Proprietor, Co-Proprietor, Manager, Supervisor, Employee), and
• opens a corporate bank account for the firm.

Check it any time with:

/business info Acme

Put money in the firm#

Your firm starts with an empty account. Move some of your own money into it:

/business deposit Acme 5000

See how much the firm is holding:

/business balance Acme

Hire staff#

Hiring is a two-step handshake. You send an offer; the player accepts it.

You (as owner or an ADMIN) send the offer:

/business offer Acme Steve

Steve accepts:

/business offer accept Acme

New hires join on the lowest role, Employee. To see who works for you:

/business staff list Acme

To let someone go — or to leave a firm yourself:

/business fire Acme Steve     # you remove an employee
/business resign Acme         # you quit a firm you work for

Roles and permissions#

Every employee has a role, and every role grants a set of permissions. Your firm starts with five roles, from most senior (rank 1) to most junior (rank 5):

The four permissions a role can hold:

Move people up and down the ladder (promote moves toward rank 1):

/business staff promote Acme Steve
/business staff demote Acme Steve

Want a custom role — say a "Treasurer" who can handle money but not hire people? Create it with a rank number, then give it the FINANCIAL permission:

/business staff role create Acme Treasurer 3
/business staff role permission add Acme Treasurer FINANCIAL

The number (3) is the role's rank, used by promote/demote. List your roles and their permissions any time:

/business staff role list Acme

Pay your staff#

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

/business account pay player Acme <accountId> Steve 1000

Find the <accountId> with /business account list Acme (see next section). Paying out requires the FINANCIAL or ADMIN permission (or being the proprietor), and account authorization. ADMIN staff are synchronized as authorizers; FINANCIAL staff need the proprietor to grant authorization. Account creation, default-account selection and access management are proprietor-only.

Using more than one account#

Bigger firms often split money across accounts — wages, supplies, profit. List what you have:

/business account list Acme

Each account shows an ID, whether it's the default, and a short shop code (you'll use that in the ChestShop section).

Create another account and make it the default if you like:

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

Move money in and out of a specific account:

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

/business account addauthorizer Acme <accountId> Steve

Connect a ChestShop to your firm#

A ChestShop normally pays the player who built it. To make a shop pay your firm instead, put the firm account's shop code on the top line of the shop sign.

1. Run /business account list Acme and note the shop code for the account you want (it looks like B:G — copy it exactly; it isn't simply the account number).
2. When you build the shop sign, set the first line to that code:

B:G
64
100:90
DIAMOND

Now every sale routes into that firm account instead of your personal balance. To build firm shops, an employee needs the CHESTSHOP permission — the Supervisor role has it by default, and the firm owner can always build firm shops.

Hand the firm to someone else#

Selling or passing on the business? Ownership transfers in a confirmed handshake:

/business transfer begin Acme Steve        # you start it (gives you a code)
/business transfer confirm Acme Steve <code>   # you confirm with that code
/business transfer complete Acme Steve     # Steve accepts and becomes owner

Reusing a disbanded firm's name#

Disbanding a firm keeps its name reserved. An administrator can explicitly release it with /business admin releasename <firmId>, using the disbanded firm's numeric ID from /business info <firm>. Only then can a new firm or rename reuse the name. Active firms cannot have their names released. Names remain case-insensitively unique among active firms and disbanded firms whose names have not been released.

The old firm keeps its name and history; reuse does not transfer its accounts, staff, or ownership. Name lookups prefer the active firm. Use the old firm's numeric ID to refer to its history or resume an incomplete disband after reuse.

What's next#

• Browse every money command in the Treasury reference.
• Every /business subcommand in one place: the Business reference.