Looking to host a store to sell stuff in a game with ingame currency
reddit / selfhosted

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Corvus741 · 2023-12-12 22:34

So I run a store in a MMO that I play, and sell in game items for in
game currency. I am looking to create store to easily keep track of
inventory, where people can place orders, and pay in game at time of
sale for in game currency, any idea's on what I could use for that?

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sy029 · 2023-12-12 22:40

In order to automatically know when someone sends you in-game
currency, you'd need to actually link to the game somehow to track it.
It's not impossible to make, but it's pretty doubtful that someone has
made it already.

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StockKnife · 2023-12-12 23:33

I googled "Micotransaction platform", found this?:

https://conotoxia.com/payments/microtransactions-for-games

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Corvus741 · 2023-12-12 23:34

I do the sales in person in game, currency is sent at time of sale,
I’m just looking for something to setup the e-commerce store with a
customer currency.

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Corvus741 · 2023-12-12 23:35

Not really micro transactions, I don’t make any like real money off
this, only in game currency

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StockKnife · 2023-12-12 23:52

ahh my bad, misunderstood your question sorry!

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Corvus741 · 2023-12-12 23:52

It Happens!

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ManifestFailure · 2023-12-12 23:59

Problem is going to be the store not knowing how much the customer has
for currency. What is stopping people from buying out more than they
can afford and messing with your stock levels.

You would probably get away with using any self-hosted e-commerce
platform that allows "pay on delivery" as an option. Wordpress options
can be fairly simple to get going, at least they were when I last
tried woocommerce.

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StockKnife · 2023-12-13 00:01

I haven't tried it but I'd expect it should be possible with something
like  a Wordpress Self-hosted website (WordPress.org) running
WooCommerce and an inventory management plugin.

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Corvus741 · 2023-12-13 01:32

I'll check it out for sure!