Business#

Business lets players form companies — firms — that can hold money, employ other players, and own ChestShops. It turns a solo player's wallet into a company with shared accounts, defined roles, and staff. It works hand-in-hand with Treasury, which holds the actual money.

Made by Paradaux, built in-house for the Minecraft Cities Network (DemocracyCraft & StateCraft) so players can run real businesses inside the economy.

Everything you can do with a firm is below. The base command is /business, and it also answers to /firm, /company, /db, and /democracybusiness.

Firms#

Command	What it does
/business create <firm>	Create a firm — you become its owner. Sets up starter roles and a corporate account.
/business info <firm>	Show a firm's owner, balance, HQ, and details.
/business list	List the firms you're part of.
/business list <player>	List a player's firms.
/business list all [page]	List every firm on the server.
/business baltop [page]	Rank firms by their collective live account balances (business.baltop, default everyone).
/business disband <firm>	Ask to close a firm you own — prompts for confirmation first.
/business disband <firm> confirm	Confirm and actually close the firm. Its money returns to you and the firm is archived.
/business attribute set hq <firm> <plot>	Set the firm's headquarters to a plot you own.
/business attribute set discord <firm> <url>	Set the firm's Discord invite link.

/business create Acme
/business info Acme
/business disband Acme
/business disband Acme confirm

If a payout fails, the firm can already be archived while the affected account remains linked. The command reports an incomplete disband rather than success. Have staff investigate the reported accounts, then rerun the disband to resume remaining payouts. Use the firm's numeric ID if its name has since been released and reused. Do not manually duplicate a payout that already settled.

Staff overrides#

A handful of commands let server staff (operators / the DOC) act on any firm, bypassing firm roles and proprietorship entirely. These are operator-only and meant for moderation — see Permission nodes.

Command	What it does
/business admin disband <firm>	Force-disband a firm (no owner confirmation).
/business admin releasename <firmId>	Release a disbanded firm's reserved name for reuse; preserves its history. Requires the numeric ID.
/business admin rename <firm> <newname>	Rename a firm.
/business admin set hq <firm> <plot>	Set any firm's HQ plot.
/business admin set discord <firm> <url>	Set any firm's Discord invite.
/business admin set proprietor <firm> <player>	Transfer the firm and its linked account ownership and access to a new proprietor.
/business admin chatspy [firm]	Toggle chat oversight for all firms or the named firm; requires CarbonChat and business.admin.chatspy (operator default).

Staff#

Command	What it does
/business offer <firm> <player>	Offer someone a job (alias /business hire). Expires in 5 minutes.
/business offer rescind <firm> <player>	Take back an offer you sent.
/business offer accept <firm>	Accept a job offer made to you.
/business offer reject <firm>	Decline a job offer.
/business staff list <firm>	List the firm's employees.
/business staff promote <firm> <player>	Move an employee up one role.
/business staff demote <firm> <player>	Move an employee down one role.
/business fire <firm> <player>	Remove an employee (needs the ADMIN role).
/business resign <firm>	Quit a firm you work for.

/business offer Acme Steve
/business staff promote Acme Steve

See the Hiring & managing staff guide for the full walkthrough.

Roles#

Roles group permissions and set the promotion ladder. A new firm starts with five roles, each seeded with a permission:

Role	Rank	Seeded permission
Proprietor	1	ADMIN
Co-Proprietor	2	ADMIN
Manager	3	FINANCIAL
Supervisor	4	CHESTSHOP
Employee	5	DEFAULT

New hires join as Employee, and a lower rank number is more senior. The four permissions are:

• ADMIN — manage staff/roles and authorized spending. Creating/archiving accounts, selecting the default and changing account access remain proprietor-only.
• FINANCIAL — spend from accounts they're an authorizer on (withdraw and pay out).
• CHESTSHOP — create and manage the firm's ChestShops (enforced by the ChestShop plugin).
• DEFAULT — a baseline marker that grants nothing on its own. It's auto-attached to every new custom role you create, and it's what the Employee role carries.

See Permissions & roles for the full breakdown.

Command	What it does
/business staff role list <firm>	List the firm's roles and their ranks.
/business staff role create <firm> <role> <order>	Create a role at rank <order> (lower number = more senior).
/business staff role rename <firm> <role> <newname>	Rename a role.
/business staff role delete <firm> <role>	Delete a role.
/business staff role permission add <firm> <role> <permission>	Grant a permission to a role.
/business staff role permission remove <firm> <role> <permission>	Remove a permission from a role.
/business staff role permission list <firm> <role>	List a role's permissions.

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

Managing roles needs the ADMIN permission.

Accounts#

A firm can hold several accounts. Members can view an account; authorizers can spend from it.

Command	What it does
/business account alias <firm> <accountId> <alias>	Set a unique, letters-only shop alias for an account (proprietor only). Use A:alias when creating a shop.
/business account clearalias <firm> <accountId>	Clear an account’s shop alias (proprietor only); signs using that alias stop working until updated.
/business account list <firm>	List the firm's accounts with IDs and shop codes.
/business account create <firm> <name>	Open a new account.
/business account setdefault <firm> <accountId>	Choose which account the short money commands use.
/business account archive <firm> <accountId>	Close an account (history is kept).
/business account balance <firm> <accountId>	Show one account's balance.
/business account transactions <firm> <accountId> [page]	One account's history.
/business account members <firm> <accountId>	List an account's members.
/business account authorizers <firm> <accountId>	List an account's authorizers.
/business account addmember <firm> <accountId> <player>	Let a player view the account.
/business account removemember <firm> <accountId> <player>	Remove a member.
/business account addauthorizer <firm> <accountId> <player>	Let a player spend from the account.
/business account removeauthorizer <firm> <accountId> <player>	Remove an authorizer.
/business account sync <firm> <accountId>	Re-sync members/authorizers to match staff roles.

Moving money (specific account)#

Command	What it does
/business account deposit <firm> <accountId> <amount>	Put your money into the account.
/business account withdraw <firm> <accountId> <amount>	Take money out (authorizer only).
/business account transfer <firm> <fromAccountId> <toAccountId> <amount> [memo]	Move money directly between two live accounts of the same firm; requires spending authority on the source.
/business account pay into <firm> <accountId> <amount>	Pay your own money into the account.
/business account pay player <firm> <accountId> <player> <amount>	Pay a player from the account.
/business account pay business <firm> <accountId> <target> <amount>	Pay another firm from the account.

/business account create Acme Wages
/business account pay player Acme 42 Steve 1000

See the Business accounts guide to put this together, and ChestShops for your firm to route shop sales into an account.

Quick money (default account)#

Shorthand that acts on the firm's default account, so you don't pass an ID:

Command	What it does
/business balance <firm>	The default account's balance.
/business deposit <firm> <amount> [memo]	Deposit into the default account; an optional memo is recorded on the transaction.
/business withdraw <firm> <amount>	Withdraw from the default account.
/business pay into <firm> <amount>	Pay your money into the default account.
/business pay player <firm> <player> <amount>	Pay a player from the default account.
/business pay business <firm> <target> <amount>	Pay another firm from the default account.
/business send <source> <target> <amount> [memo]	Send money from one of your firms to another, with an optional memo. Run /business send with no arguments to list your firms and their balances first.
/business transactions <firm> [page]	History across all the firm's accounts.

Ownership transfer#

The admin proprietor command ends any employee role held by the incoming or outgoing owner, preserves employment history, cancels pending ownership transfers, and records who performed the handover. Other employees retain their roles. Linked accounts keep their IDs, balances and shop aliases; account ownership and access are reconciled to the new proprietor and the remaining staff roles. Shops linked to those accounts stay linked.

If Treasury is unavailable, the command reports that ownership changed but account access still needs repair. The automatic reconciliation job retries ownership and permissions from the committed firm state; rerunning the command also retries. Until repair completes, some accounts may still grant the previous owner access.

Handing the firm to someone else is a confirmed, two-sided handshake:

Command	What it does
/business transfer begin <firm> <player>	Start a transfer; gives you a code.
/business transfer confirm <firm> <player> <code>	Confirm it with that code.
/business transfer complete <firm> <player>	The new owner accepts and takes over.
/business transfer cancel <firm> <player>	Call off a transfer you started.
/business transfer reject <firm> <player>	Decline an incoming transfer.

Tax#

Command	What it does
/business tax info <firm>	Show the firm's tax status and estimated weekly tax.
/business tax exempt <firm> <on|off>	Set or clear tax exemption (admin). Accepts any on/off token — true/false, yes/no, on/off, 1/0, enable/disable.

Sales#

Read-only reporting over the firm's ChestShop sales. Viewing is gated to the firm's proprietor or staff with the FINANCIAL or ADMIN role — sales figures are the firm's books, not public.

Command	What it does
/business sales <firm> [page]	List the firm's recent ChestShop sales (paginated).
/business sales summary <firm> [days]	Aggregate sales report — totals, top items, top customers (default 30 days).
/business sales export <firm> <days>	Get an Economy Explorer link to the firm's sales report for the last <days> days (capped by sales.max-export-days). The page shows the window it is filtered to, with a link to switch to all time.
/business sales toggle <firm>	Turn real-time sale notifications on/off for the firm (owner/admin).

Chat#

A firm-member chat channel (like Factions' /f chat); authorized staff can monitor it through admin chatspy. Requires CarbonChat; messages route through the firm's channel once selected.

Command	What it does
/business chat	Enter your firm's chat channel (joins your only firm).
/business chat <firm>	Enter a specific firm's chat when you're in several.
/business chat off	Leave firm chat.

Permission nodes#

Business uses two layers of access:

1. LuckPerms node — gates the command itself. Almost every business.* node defaults to everyone (default: true) — including business.use, which the base /business command needs. The only exceptions are the staff-override nodes business.admin.* (disband / rename / attribute / proprietor / reload) and business.tax.exempt, which default to operator-only. Real authorisation for everyday commands is enforced at the in-firm role layer below, so the node only governs whether a player may attempt the command at all.
2. In-firm role permission — for actions on a specific firm, the plugin then checks the actor's role permission (ADMIN / FINANCIAL). The firm owner (proprietor) bypasses this layer entirely.

So a player needs the LuckPerms node and (for firm-specific actions) the right in-firm role.

Command(s)	Node	In-firm role
/business create	business.create	—
/business disband	business.disband	owner only
/business info	business.info	—
/business list · list <player> · list all	business.list · business.list.other · business.list.all	—
/business deposit · balance · withdraw · pay player · pay business · send · transactions	business.finance	ADMIN or FINANCIAL
/business pay (into a firm)	business.pay	—
/business offer / hire · offer rescind	business.staff.offer · business.staff.offer.rescind	ADMIN
/business offer accept · reject	business.staff.offer.accept · business.staff.offer.reject	— (the invitee)
/business fire	business.staff.fire	ADMIN
/business resign	business.staff.resign	—
/business staff promote · demote	business.staff.promote · business.staff.demote	ADMIN
/business staff list	business.staff.list	—
/business staff role create · rename · delete	business.staff.role.create · .rename · .delete	ADMIN
/business staff role permission add · remove · list	business.staff.role.permission.add · .remove · .list	ADMIN (add/remove)
/business staff role list	business.staff.role.list	—
/business account create · setdefault · archive	business.account.create · .setdefault · .archive	owner only
/business account sync	business.account.sync	— (operator)
/business account addmember · removemember · addauthorizer · removeauthorizer	business.account.addmember · .removemember · .addauthorizer · .removeauthorizer	owner only
/business account list · members · authorizers	business.account.list · .members · .authorizers	—
/business account pay into	business.pay	—
/business account deposit · withdraw · transfer · pay player · pay business · balance · transactions	business.account.finance	ADMIN or FINANCIAL
/business transfer begin · confirm · cancel	business.transfer.begin · .confirm · .cancel	owner only
/business transfer complete · reject	business.transfer.complete · .reject	— (the recipient)
/business attribute set hq · discord	business.attribute.hq · business.attribute.discord	ADMIN
/business tax info	business.tax.info	—
/business tax exempt	business.tax.exempt	operator action
/business sales · sales summary	business.sales	proprietor / ADMIN / FINANCIAL
/business sales export	business.sales.export	proprietor / ADMIN / FINANCIAL
/business sales toggle	business.sales.toggle	owner / ADMIN
/business chat	business.chat	firm member
/business admin disband	business.admin.disband	— (operator, bypasses firm roles)
/business admin releasename	business.admin.releasename	— (operator; disbanded firms only)
/business admin rename	business.admin.rename	— (operator, bypasses firm roles)
/business admin set hq · set discord	business.admin.attribute	— (operator, bypasses firm roles)
/business admin set proprietor	business.admin.proprietor	— (operator, bypasses firm roles)
/business reload	business.admin.reload	— (operator)

Firm menu#

Use /firm menu to choose an active firm you own or work for. Archived firms are hidden; hover over a firm to see its ID, owner and headquarters (when set). Use /firm menu <firm> (with a name or numeric ID) to open a firm's overview. The Curator chest dashboard shows its aggregate balance and opens paginated staff and account lists. Money actions and the Manage button on each list open Usher input dialogs. Staff forms send employment offers or fire employees; account forms create accounts or change the default account. Money forms support deposits, withdrawals and payments to a player, another firm, or the selected firm from your personal account.

Choose an action, fill its required fields and press Submit. Enter ordinary decimal amounts such as 10.50. Recipient names/IDs and new account names use one word per field. Actions run the existing commands with current server and firm-role permissions. An open menu does not retain permissions after they are revoked. Each menu session submits once; reopen /firm menu after an action to see updated data. Refresh overview reloads the selected firm. Back in a form reloads the dashboard without submitting; Close dismisses it. List arrows page through firms, staff and accounts. Menu icons are display controls and cannot be taken into your inventory.