Viewer-Managed Marketplace

Hopefully many Second Life Marketplace merchants have received an email like this :

We have finished upgrading the listings in your store to work with the Viewer-Managed Marketplace feature. You must use a Viewer that supports VMM (http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Release/3.8.2.303583), and will need to restart the viewer if you had it open during the migration. Your stores should now be fully functional.

If you would like more information on the upgrades and how to manage your Marketplace inventory items from here on, please see the Knowledge Base Article on the Viewer-Managed Marketplace https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Viewer-managed-Marketplace-Beta/ta-p/2854226.

Thank you for using the Second Life Marketplace

That should indicate that everything has gone smoothly with your migration to the new Viewer Managed Marketplace, then you’ll just need to get your head around how everything works with the Viewer Managed Marketplace, but fear not, Linden Lab have provided plenty of helpful assistance there. A really good place to start is with the comprehensive knowledge-base article linked in the email.

I haven’t seen too many complaints about the migration, some people have reported that they’ve received an email stating there was a problem with the migration and that Linden Lab are investigating. In those circumstances you will still need to manage your Marketplace listings as you usually would.

Continue reading “Viewer Managed Marketplace Migration Seems To Be Going Smoothly”

Linden Lab have announced Viewer-Managed Marketplace Released: Migration Begins July 23, 2015. This is a very important blog post for people who have a Second Life Marketplace store as the blog post explains :

Once your store is migrated, you’ll need to use the Second Life VMM Viewer to manage the inventory in your Marketplace store.

So first things first, when will the migration be taking place? Well let’s go back to the blog post for that information because the migration will not be an overnight change :

The Viewer-Managed Marketplace (VMM) Viewer is now a release candidate, and automated migrations will begin on July 23, 2015. Migrations will be done weeknights between 9:00 PM and 9:00 AM Pacific. Merchants with large stores (over around 5,000 listings) will be scheduled, and we will send an email (to the email address associated with your store) to provide you with advance notice.

For all Merchants, we will send an email at the beginning of the migration process, and another email once it has completed. Merchants will not be able to modify items in their stores during this time, but purchases will continue for any item that is not in the process of being migrated.

Therefore you will be notified before your store is migrated, but you should keep an eye on your spam folders in case emails are incorrectly flagged.

Continue reading “Viewer-Managed Marketplace Migration Scheduled To Start On July 23rd – Oh Hell No!”