Transaction History

I have an idea that I'm not sure has been mentioned yet. I did a search and was unable to find anything, so here goes...

How difficult would it be to keep a transaction history on our Portal page and/or in-game? I'm assuming there is already a log (at least a short-range one) of this in the database, so it would be great if this information were made available to individuals. I already keep track of this information in a spreadsheet, but it would be great if some of this information was generated automatically such as transaction date, IGN, amount, and whether the dei was given or received. I'm thinking this information could be generated into a simple editable table/form and then maybe a couple blank fields could be added as well for us to fill in. They could be really specific such as "Item" or just a generic field such as "Notes" for people to use for whatever they please.

I know there are a lot of other features being implemented, so this wouldn't be at the top of the list. But this seems to me that it would be fairly easy to add (unless I'm wrong in my assumption that this info is currently being stored) and would greatly benefit the merchants. Likewise, it could be handy if the auction history was inserted inline with these transactions as well.

Thanks for taking the time to read my thoughts!

 

It would be great to have daily history logged in mail:
[date/time]: [income/expense] [amount] [note]
Aug 1st 10:33am: income 200 dei voting
Aug 1st 10:34am: expense 200 dei town bank
Aug 1st 4:27pm: income 25 dei gold ingot
Aug 1st 6:45pm: expense 300 dei to player [name]

same for town:
Aug 1st 10:34am: income 200 dei from 2silentstalker
Aug 1st 6:02pm: income 450 dei resident taxes
Aug 1st 8:11pm: expense 436 dei town tax
Aug 1st 11:33pm: expense 350 dei plot claimed at [X, Z]

 

Not in mail, holy crap. I get enough mail as it is from town taxes.

Van has mentioned he may be adding a town bank feature to portal in Kingdoms.
As for the OP, I believe Laurie suggested this a while back. Not sure if it was actually implemented.

 

More like this on the portal >​

(on the portal page) Transaction History. (add link here)​

(option 1 after clicking) Town (add link here)​

(option 2 after clicking) Player (add link here)​

TOWN (available to Mayors/Assistants only):​

Aug 1 12:34 PM: Harry_C deposited 10,000 dei to bank.​

Aug 1 12:35 PM: Harry_C withdrew 10,000 dei from bank.
Aug 2 1:12 PM: Town gains 340 dei in taxes.
Aug 2 3:05 PM: Town taxed 250.


PLAYER:
Aug 1 10:12 AM: Payed player Harry_C 1000.
Aug 10 3:23 PM: Received 2000 dei from player ImDeity.
Aug 10 3:24 PM: Payed town Hilgrove 10 dei to town.

 

This is a feature that could be added in as part of the class system. Perhaps the next level of merchant could use this to more easily manage finances.

 

Well, though that would be better than nothing, I would kind of like to see it for everyone. Especially if it were used for town finances as suggested above, it would have to be more than just vendors.

 

I love this idea. There are so many times when trading that a lot that a record like this would be very useful. Great idea!

 

This could be very useful for people in those tricky situations in trades where someone claims he paid and the other claims she wasn't paid ...

 

Nolarboot and I thought of a similar idea to this, sort of a receipt for when shops come out. These 2 ideas could play together nicely, with the receipt being on the portal.

 

Yeah, good point. I was thinking solely of trades in which there is no way to have a receipt of what the item was unless you manually track it (hence the notes field I suggested), but that information should be stored (at least temporarily) in the database for the shops (and the auctions). I think it could be quite handy for shop owners to be able to track data on their products. One could easily produce statistics from this and get a better idea of what prices work best for certain items.

(Oh man, now my mind is starting to wander endlessly thinking about the possibilities if Deity were to create an API for us to use for various reporting purposes and such...lol. But that's just crazy talk, now. I'm think I should probably get back to my RL work and do some real reporting work...hehe.)

 

An excellent idea. Although this has never happened to me on this server, i have been robbed a few times by dishonest customers. A quality receipt or transaction history system would help further secure business transactions done between two players.