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 BUSINESSES                                                                     

  GUIDE / HELP / ECONOMY / BUSINESSES
In play: help businesses. Also business terminal, business register, employment, wages, shop, shop add, shop pull, shop price, shop status, shop collect, shop bark, shopkeeping.

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  open the terminal                                   
  offers of work                                      
  staff and wages                                     
  my record                                           
  money                                               
  trade and records                                   
  shop                                                

Run a business: staff, wages, money, and the shop counter.

open the terminal

use <business terminal>

You must be beside the terminal. It shows only the sections your ownership or employment permits you to use.

offers of work

An owner or permitted manager can offer work to a character who is present. That character reads the offer and accepts or declines it at the same terminal.

staff and wages

The Staff section lists current staff, their role, and their weekly wage. Permitted owners and managers can offer work, end an employment, and set a wage there.

Each wage has a weekly cap. Paid visits by outside patrons add support to payroll. Proprietors can also set business funds aside for payroll.

my record

My Record shows your role, your authority, and your wage. New staff wait three days for a first wage. After that, a wage becomes due every seven days.

Collect the oldest due wage from My Record. If payroll is short, the wage remains on the books. You can return to the premises terminal and collect it later, including after your employment ends.

money

The Money section shows business funds, payroll on hand, patronage support, unpaid wages, and recent entries. A permitted proprietor or partner can collect business funds or set some aside for payroll.

trade and records

A permitted owner can open or close the premises for trade from the main screen. Records shows proprietors, partners, tenancy, any deposit, and recent material changes to the premises.

A frozen tenancy closes business access and services until staff resolve it. A business eye-reader opens an ordinary physical door: while it stands open, others can follow through, and the handle on the inside remains usable even during a freeze.

shop

shop add <item> = <price>
shop pull <number>
shop price <number> <price>
shop category <number> <category>
shop bark <list/buy/fail> <text/clear>
shop status
shop collect

Run a shop counter that you manage, in the same room. add puts a carried
item on sale. pull takes one back into your hands. price and
category change a line of stock. The number counts the stock lines in
the order they were added. bark adds a line the vendor says when a
customer lists, buys, or fails to haggle; clear removes them.
status shows takings and recent sales, and collect takes the
takings.

Example: shop add leather jacket = 250

For bar and restaurant counters, see help bar.
For ordinary buying and selling, see help economy.
For using nearby objects, see help objects.

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