Store announcements

Announcing what somebody bought.

This is the single highest-earning line of text a server prints. Seeing a purchase announced is the closest a Minecraft server gets to social proof, and stores that announce sell more than stores that do not.

Setting it up

Nothing here talks to your store or to the internet. Your store already knows a payment happened and already has a way to run a console command when one does - this formats the message.

Tebex or Buycraft: add one line to the package's command list.

donation all {name} Server Tools

{name} is Tebex's placeholder for the buyer. Everything after it is the package name, and it may contain spaces.

Use player instead of all to send only the private thank-you, which is what you want for anything somebody might not want announced.

The wording

All of it is in donations.yml, as MiniMessage:

broadcast:
  - "<dark_gray>▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬"
  - "   <gradient:#ec407a:#ff8a3c><bold>NEW DONATION</bold></gradient>"
  - "%sale%"
  - "  <#ffca28>✦ <white>%player% <#90a4ae>just purchased"
  - "     <#66ffa6><bold>%package%</bold> <#66bb6a>GG!"
  - ""
  - "  <#546e7a>View the store with <white>/store"
  - "<dark_gray>▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬"

Placeholder	Is
%player%	Who bought it
%package%	What they bought
%online%	How many people are watching
%sale%	The sale line, or nothing when the sale is off

%sale% is why you can leave the sale line in place all year. Toggle it with:

/donation sale on

which writes back to the file.

The sound

sound: plays to everybody on a public announcement. It does as much work as the text - people look up for it. Set it blank for silence.

The thank-you

thank-you: is sent privately to the buyer. It is worth keeping warm: it is the last thing somebody reads after paying you.