Banking

A business account is money the bank holds for another resource: a player-owned shop, a garage, a dealership. Your resource opens it, names the owner and the staff, and moves the money. The bank shows it to the player under Business accounts with a number, a PIN and a history; customers can transfer to it; nothing about it is managed from the bank.

lation_shops does all of this out of the box, see lation_shops below.

Integrate your resource

Open the account

Once per business, under an id of your own. Prefix it with your resource so it can never collide with a job name or an account number.

exports.lation_banking:CreateAccount({
    id = 'myshop:24_7', type = 'business', name = 'Grove Street Market',
    owner = identifier,   -- nil while nobody owns it
    balance = 0
})

CreateAccount answers nil, 'exists' when the account is already open, so this is safe to run on every start. The account exports wait for the bank to finish loading before they answer.

Move the money through the bank

exports.lation_banking:AddAccountMoney('myshop:24_7', 240, 'Sale: 3x Water')

if not exports.lation_banking:RemoveAccountMoney('myshop:24_7', 1500, 'Stock order') then
    -- not enough in the account, or an admin froze it
end

local balance = exports.lation_banking:GetAccountBalance('myshop:24_7')

The note is the line the owner reads in the history. RemoveAccountMoney is atomic and never lets a balance go negative.

Keep the owner and the staff in step

-- sold, transferred, repossessed: nil while the business has no owner
exports.lation_banking:SetAccountOwner('myshop:24_7', newIdentifier)

-- staff: deposit, withdraw and transfer; manage is never given on a business account
exports.lation_banking:AddAccountMember('myshop:24_7', identifier, { deposit = true, withdraw = false, transfer = false })
exports.lation_banking:UpdateAccountMember('myshop:24_7', identifier, { deposit = true, withdraw = true, transfer = true })
exports.lation_banking:RemoveAccountMember('myshop:24_7', identifier)
exports.lation_banking:ClearAccountMembers('myshop:24_7')

-- renamed, or gone (move the money first: a closed account returns nothing to anyone)
exports.lation_banking:RenameAccount('myshop:24_7', 'Grove Street Market')
exports.lation_banking:DeleteAccount('myshop:24_7')

Staff who should see the account but touch nothing are members with every permission false. Staff who should not see it are not members.

Mirror moves made at the bank

Only if your resource keeps its own balance. Money also moves without you: the owner withdraws at an ATM, a customer transfers in. Follow the bank’s ledger so your own UI shows the same figure.

AddEventHandler('lation_banking:transaction', function(tx)
    if tx.actorName == GetCurrentResourceName() then return end   -- your own moves, already recorded
    local shopId = tx.accountId:match('^myshop:(.+)$')
    if shopId then
        MyShops.SetBalance(shopId, tx.balanceAfter)
    end
end)

The event and its fields are on the server exports page.

What the player gets

Who	At the bank
Owner	Sees the account, pays in, takes out and transfers, sets its PIN, reads the history.
Staff	Whatever you gave them: view only, deposit, or withdraw and transfer.
Customers	Transfer to its account number like any other.
Admins	View it, freeze it, adjust its balance with a reason and clear its PIN from the admin panel. Frozen, it still takes money in but pays nothing out, from the bank and from your resource alike.

lation_shops

With lation_shops 1.9.0 and lation_banking 1.1.0 both running, every shop’s balance is a business account named after the shop, id shop:<shopId>. Nothing to set up: banking on auto finds the bank, and the first start opens the accounts with the balances the shops already hold.

In the shop	At the bank
Sale, sell-back, stock order, refund, bonus, deposit, withdrawal	A ledger line saying what moved.
Bought, abandoned, transferred, assigned, repossessed	The owner follows, or nobody while the shop is for sale. The money stays with the shop.
Hired, fired, permissions changed	`view_finances` sees the account, `deposit_funds` pays in, `withdraw_funds` takes out and transfers. Staff with no finance permission do not see it.
Renamed, deleted	Renamed, closed.
Withdrawn at an ATM, transferred in	Mirrored to the shop’s balance and its ledger the moment it happens.

The shop keeps its own balance in step the whole time, so its dashboard shows what the bank shows, and switching to another banking system later loses nothing. Turn it off under Administration → Config → Finances → Bank accounts.

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Banking - Business accounts

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