This is CasperVend - A new, optimised, complete networked vendor system.
THIS IS THE FREE VERSION - IT CHARGES 5% COMMISSION PER SALE. Don't like commission? Try the Premium version, which charges NO commission when the vendors are owned by you, and a reduced 2% commission for affiliates! (See related items).
NOW INCLUDES MESH VENDORS!
With this product, you get a DropBox, in which you put your items for sale, textures and notecards, and vendors - which you can rez around the grid anywhere you like. When a customer buys an item, it will be delivered from your DropBox - meaning you can manage every vendor on the grid from just one location!
Stop lagging up your sims with our competitor's products! Every CasperVend vendor and server functions with only one script creating virtually no lag to improve the shopping experience for your customers - people don't shop in laggy stores! For comparison, Hippo use up to 11 scripts in their vendors and 20 in their server!
Come see our vendors in action at our store in Second Life
Quick feature list:
* NINE styles of vendor included ranging from just 1 prim to a beautiful 9 prim vendor, so there's an option to suit all tastes
* Web-Enabled - Create and manage your products and vendors using our snappy online presence. Control and monitor your sales without needing to be logged in to SL!
* Ultra-robust network - Your sales network will be unaffected by sim crashes, restarts, or other events
* No notecards - All the vendor configuration is done through our website, no fumbling with notecards!
* Backup DropBoxes - Put a DropBox on multiple sims for redundancy - never lose a sale because of a sim crash!
* Profiles - Update many vendors at once with vendor profiles - managing your sales network is simple with CasperVend!
* Redundant communication - We use backup, clustered servers and multiple communication routes to ensure that sales get through no matter what!
* "Buy as gift" function - People can quickly and easily buy gifts for their friends even if their friend is brand new to SL
* "Smart" text This optional feature provides a clear text indicator above the vendor - but only when the vendor is in use. No more floating text pollution!
* Auto rotate - Optionally, automatically rotate to the next product every minute
* Texture preloading - Enable rapid browsing to improve the shopping experience for your visitors!
* One-script design - Only one script per vendor means your store remains snappy and responsive
* Full statistics - Sales log and graphical statistics helps you keep track of your performance
* XStreet integration - Link XStreet products to CasperVend to include your XStreet sales in the sales statistics
* Smart scripting - All of our scripts have been created with the utmost stringency on optimisation and efficient coding, further reducing the lag hit on your store
* Free, lifetime updates - Updates will be automatically delivered to you as they become available!
* Affiliate vendors - Allow others to sell your products in a completely safe way, (optionally) giving them a percentage of your sales! Now included in both the free and premium systems.
* Group Discounts - Optionally set your vendor to give a configurable discount to anyone in the same group as the vendor.
* Gift Cards - (Plugin purchase required) Give gift cards with a configurable balance for use in your store to anyone
* Sounds - Optionally play a configurable sound when the user views a product. Perfect for gesture sellers
* Auto Rename - Optionally make the vendor change its name to the currently viewed product to make your Second Life transaction history clearer
* Change the description of your vendors from the website to help you optimise your performance in the Second Life Search
* Vendors are now searchable, allowing your customers to easily find what they're looking for
* Website redeliver - easily re-deliver items from the website without logging in to second life
* Easy Update - Future versions will include an "update beacon" so you can quickly and easily update your vendors without reconfiguring them
* Profit sharing - Send a percentage of each sale (either on a particular product or a particular vendor) to a colleague, friend, associate or charity!
* JEVN Importer - Are you a current JEVN user? There's a script bundled with CasperVend which will quickly and easily import your current setup from your JEVN notecards.
* NEW - CasperVend now integrates directly with SmartBots! Send real group invites when people make a purchase!
Please note: All customers who purchase items from us will be added to a product update and notification mailing list, which will arrive as IM's inworld. If you do not wish to receive these update, please simply click the included opt-out link.
See item in Second Life View Video »- Web-Enabled - Create and manage your products and vendors easily on our website!
- Low lag, One-script design - Only 1 script per vendor reduces lag in your store
- Texture preloading - enables rapid browsing to improve the shopping experience
- SL Marketplace integration - Link SLM products to CasperVend Stats
- Free, lifetime updates (Of course!)
High tech, well-organised system. But lacks customizability.
< Satisfactory >
1. Re-delivery system / Vendor monitoring system by web - This set enables all beginner merchants to make up their business with professional system. Especially vendor web-monitoring feature is pretty impressive and I find it very comfortable to use.
2. Top security - Nothing to say much. Everything is in the instruction and by that, this vendor is highly secured and I feel safe using it.
3. Little lag indeed - Yeah, not much lag produced. This is not so heavy, but all functional vendors.
< Unsatisfactory >
1. Hard to customize the vendor - The vendor's texture designs doesn't match the theme of my shop. But changing the style of the vendor is pretty tough. I wish there were more variable styles or at least let merchants change the texture easily.
2. Delivery System - Since most of the people using this 1L vendor are most likely to rent a single shop or two, using delivery system is somewhat wasting prims which would cause the rental fee to double or triple. Please note that people using free vendors probably don't have their own sim or so many branch shops. Thus, there should be another feature which enables customers to buy from the vendor directly.
Overall : Very descent and professional, though not perfectly perfect
Best Vendor Avail!
I Got this , love it ;)
So damm Easy to setup but powerfull...
Got any you want / need right in 1 nice box , and can be used with any plugin you like, no need for gift cards to get the full version (only if you like to remove the 5%).
Also best support i ever seen in SL!
I did not want a commission vendor, but there was no money for anything else. But I realized that this is fantastic!
I starting my business this system, and perfect! Easy, fast correct! No notecard work, clear and fast web admin dashboard, and real cheap comission. I think not too much 5% for this support.
Very big help for me the free vendors... now working my business :)
If I dont understand some things the support group fast and good, and the wiki clear and simple.
Thank you!
Fantastic System!!
I spent over 4 hours today setting up my old vendor system and its blasted notecards. Then a friend told me about this amazing system. So I thought I would give it a try! And WOW!! I am super impressed! Talk about an amazing system. In less time than I had imagined, all of my products were ready for sale! You NEED this system!
Just.....perfect...
I was not sure which vendor system to use for my shop, asked in some groups.......the name Caspervend came up too as a very popular one, but to dish out L$1695 for a vendor system?
Tried some others, spend a lot of time setting them up and they just weren't right, there was always something missing...so I decided to try the Caspervend Free Core System anyway.
And now I am so happy I did, setting up the vendors is so easy it is actually fun. Redelivery system is included, several vendors (low prim!) and support is extremely fast. A lot of helpful people in the group , the creator is much online too and replies instantly. The web-based configuration is just as good as it can get.
Only after a day I went to buy the non-free Core System and it is really worth every L$.
If you are looking for a vendor system, I recommend the Caspervend system, ......you can't go wrong with it. If I could give 10 stars, I'd do it
A++++
A very great system
I first came into contact with Caspervend over in Avination. I really love and enjoy using it there. I was a bit sad that my life in Avination is a lot more monitarily productive, and I cannot afford the full version here in the SL Grid, but when I stumbled across this free version I was extremely happy. I don't mind the 5% commission, because to be honest, it's a great LAG FREE vendor system that will allow my shop to have more shoppers in it that can actually use the system and that means I will be able to save up for the full version, so it's actually paying for itself! Thank you casper for this wonderful, lag free, web based vendor system!
