Commerce Tools
The Price Tracker is an overlay window that displays up-to-date highest Buy Order and lowest Sale Listing prices for any number of items.
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Live Prices: Retrieved via the official GW2 API, the highest Buy Order and lowest Sale Listing is displayed for each item added from the Commerce Settings.
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Past-value Graphs: Clicking on the graph icon for each item will open a pop-up graph that displays past Buy Order and Sale Listing prices for the item. Note that this only keeps track of items while the application is running, and no information is saved when the application is closed. Plot points are added at a rate of once per minute for a maximum of 10 hours. The graph supports zooming with a mouse-wheel and will pan while holding the right-mouse button.
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Out-of-Limit Glow: If an item's Buy Order or Sale Listing is out of the thresholds defined within the Commerce Settings, the corresponding value will be displayed with a yellow glow.
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Main Menu: Clicking on the icon in the top left corner of the window opens a menu with the following options:
- Configure - Opens the Commerce Settings
- Sort By... - Provides the ability to sort items by Name, Buy Price, Sell Price, and Profit.
- Close - Closes the Price Tracker window
Price Notifications are used to notify a user when an item's highest Buy Order or lowest Sale Listing reaches a certain value.
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Configuration: Price Notifications are configured via the Commerce Settings, where you can add, remove, or adjust the thresholds for each item.
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Current Price: When a notification is shown for a Buy Order price or Sell Listing price, the current price that triggered the notification is shown.
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Copy Button: To quickly copy/paste the name or chat-code of the item, you can click on the icon in the bottom-right corner of the notification. This copies the name or chat-code to the clipboard for copy/pasting into the in-game chat.
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Configured Limits ToolTips: When mousing over the item's image within a notification, the configured notification limits that resulted in the notification are shown.
The Trading Post Calculator is an overlay window for calculating profit margins, break-even values, and Trading Post taxes.
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Profit Calculation: The Trading Post Calculator automatically calculates profit as you enter values in the Buy Price, Sell Price, and Quantity boxes.
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Calculation Breakdown: Mousing-over the Profit value displays a tooltip showing the full breakdown of the profit calculation, including Revenue, Cost, Listing Fee, and Sale Fee.
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Break Even Prices: Mousing-over the "Buy Price" or "Sell Price" shows the value required to break-even. As an example, If a Buy Price of 10 silver, 5 copper is entered, the Sell Price tooltip will show a break-even value of 11 silver, 82 copper.
The Commerce Settings are located within the Settings window and allow customization of items monitored for the Price Tracker and Price Notifications.
Items are added by entering their name in the Item Name entry box and then clicking the Add button. When added, the item will be displayed in the list of items. Selecting an item in the list displays additional details for the item, including it's Icon, Name, and Current Buy Order and Sale Listing. From each item panel, the notification thresholds can be set for as follows:
- Upper - When an Upper threshold is enabled, if the price (Buy Order or Sell Listing) is equal to or less than this value, a notification will be shown
- Lower - When a Lower threshold is enabled, if the price (Buy Order or Sell Listing) is equal to or greater than this value, a notification will be shown. If both the Upper and Lower thresholds for a Buy Order or Sell Listing is enabled, then both will apply, meaning a notification will only be shown if the value falls equal to or between the upper and lower values.
In addition to the list of monitored items, the Commerce Settings includes the following options:
- Buy Order Price Notifications: Enables/Disables all Buy Order price notifications
- Sell Listing Price Notifications: Enables/Disables all Sell Listing price notifications
- Redisplay Notifications Interval: Sets the amount of time that a notification is again displayed, in minutes. After a price notification is shown for the first time, it will be repeatedly shown, according to this interval, as long as the price remains within the configured notification limits.
- Notifications Duration: The amount of time that a notification is shown can be set here. The value indicates the duration of notifications in seconds.
In order to reduce the amount of network traffic required for the price notifications, the full items database is included with the application. This allows for faster item searching when entering information for a new price notification. Since items are often added to the game, an additional tool is available to allow you to rebuild your items database, allowing you to update your application to include the most recent list of items that have been added to the game.
To rebuild your items database, simply click the 'Rebuild Item Names Database' button in the Commerce Settings. The rebuild will immediately begin, and can be cancelled at any time. The updated database is only applied if the rebuild fully completes.