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Sale Posting

Build shareable sale postings from your own stock: assemble the items you want to offer into a structured posting, price them against build, market or contract references, and render the result as text you can paste into Slack, Discord or a forum — or post it to Slack or Discord straight from the app.

Open it from the left sidebar under Market / Trade.

What it shows

The screen has two tabs: Definitions, where you build the posting, and Posting, the rendered, shareable output.

Definitions tab

A toolbar sits at the top with a + Add Posting button, a Refresh button, and a Profit based on dropdown (Build or Market) that chooses which price reference the profit columns use.

The posting itself is a tree:

  • A Posting (e.g. "Primary Marketplace Post") is the top level. It carries the settings below, such as a sale price basis (e.g. "Build ×115%").
  • Each posting contains Sections (e.g. "Carriers (Command)", "Dreadnoughts (Navy)", "Force Auxiliaries", "Jump Freighters"). A section can override the posting's inventory scope, sale price basis and packaged-only setting for its own items (e.g. "Build ×112% — all items").
  • Each section contains Items.

Every posting and section row carries + Section / + Item, Edit and Delete controls, so you build the tree in place.

Posting settings

+ Add Posting and Edit on a posting open its settings:

  • Posting name.
  • Inventory scope (In Stock / In Build) — where stock is counted: Everywhere, or one Station, System or Region.
  • Sale price basis — Build Cost, Contract Cost or a Specific Market (with its price type), and Sale price = basis × %. Build defaults to 110 %, contract and market to 100 %.
  • Show quantities in posting — whether In Stock, In Build and Reserved appear in the rendered text, and whether to include the earliest job completion date for an item that's out of stock but building.
  • Only include packaged items — skip assembled or fitted hulls when counting stock.
  • Colour — line colours for EVE mail; other formats ignore them.
  • Post blocks — the messages the posting is rendered as, in order: Summary, Detail or Static (text you type), each with an optional header and footer. On a Slack channel the first block is the message and the rest go in its thread.

A section's Edit offers the same scope, price basis and packaged-only settings, each with an Override … for this section box.

Columns per row:

  • Posting / Section / Item — the tree label.
  • Name Override — a display name to use instead of the item's own.
  • Prefix — a text or emoji prefix (such as a Slack or Discord emoji code) placed before the name in the rendered output.
  • In Stock, In Build, Reserved — computed from your assets and jobs.
  • Stock Ovr, Build Ovr, Rsrv Ovr — hand overrides for the three quantities above.
  • Build Cost, Mkt Value, Contract — three price references.
  • Sale Price — your configurable asking price.
  • Profit and Profit % — relative to the reference chosen in Profit based on.
  • Ready (est.) — an estimate of when the item will be available.

Posting tab

Pick a posting from the list on the left. Its post blocks are rendered as shareable text in the chosen Format: Plain, Slack, Discord, Markdown, HTML or BBCode. Each block has a Copy button, and Refresh renders it again.

  • Post to Slack — shown once a Slack channel or webhook is set for Sale Posting under Settings ▸ Slack. On a channel, the first block is the message and the rest go in its thread.
  • Post to Discord — shown once a Discord webhook is set for Sale Posting under Settings ▸ Discord (see Posting to Discord). Each block goes as its own message, in order, since a webhook can't start a thread.

Both buttons post in their own service's format, whatever the Format box shows. Each has its own status line, and asks before posting the same posting again within 24 hours.

Using it

  1. On the Definitions tab, click + Add Posting and give it a name, an inventory scope and a sale price basis.
  2. Add Sections to the posting with + Section, optionally overriding the scope, price basis or packaged-only setting for a section's items.
  3. Add Items to a section with + Item.
  4. Set a Sale Price per item, and add a Name Override or Prefix where you want one. Use the Ovr columns to correct any stock, build or reserved figure by hand.
  5. Choose the reference for the profit columns with the Profit based on dropdown.
  6. Switch to the Posting tab, pick a format (Plain, Slack, Discord, Markdown, HTML or BBCode) and copy the rendered text to share it — or press Post to Slack or Post to Discord.

Notes

  • Pricing needs a configured market (Configuring Markets); build costs also need an industry park (Indy Parks).
  • Contract pricing is used for items that have no market pricing, such as BPCs.
  • In-stock, in-build and reserved figures are computed from your assets and jobs; the Ovr columns let you override them when the computed value isn't what you want to advertise.
  • A store that prices from a posting also takes its stock rules from it. An order placed through the store counts as in stock only from what that posting's scope and packaged-only setting count — see Stock follows the store's rules.
  • To post a posting on a timetable, add a Sale Posting section to a Scheduler task.
  • To follow up on what actually sells, see Sales Tracker.