Companies

Companies are not live yet. They are coming with the Season 1 launch. This page describes how they will work so you can plan ahead — the commands below do not exist on the server yet.

A company is a shared bank account with a name, an owner, and staff you choose. It lets a group pool money, pay people, and run a business together without trusting one person's personal balance.

Why bother

Everything on ProsperitySMP already runs on real money — jobs, shops, rent, the auction house. A company gives a group of players one pot to work from instead of passing cash around by hand.

A shop run by three people can keep its takings in one place instead of in whoever happened to be online.
An owner can let staff spend from the company without handing over the whole balance.
Company money shows up in /baltop and the economy pages like any other account, so a successful business is visible.

Forming one

/company create <name> — forms your company. Costs $1,000, which is destroyed, not paid to anyone.
You can be in one company at a time.
The name must be 3–24 characters. Names that clash with an existing company or an existing player are refused, and so are server names like admin or CentralBank.
Punctuation and capitals are ignored when checking for clashes, so Acme Corp, acme-corp and ACME CORP all count as the same name.

Money

/company deposit <amount> — any member can put money in.
/company withdraw <amount> — takes money out, if your role allows it.
/company info — shows the balance, the owner and your company's details.

A company holds a real account, exactly like a player. That means the money is genuinely there — it is not a number in a menu — and it behaves like everyone else's money.

Tax

Company money is taxed. This is worth understanding before you form one.

The daily wealth tax applies to a company's balance using the same brackets as players.
It is charged in addition to the tax on your own balance — moving money into a company does not reduce what you owe personally.
Below the bottom bracket a company pays nothing, exactly as a player does.

Companies are not a way to avoid tax. They are a way to run a business.

Staff and roles

Nobody is added silently — every invite has to be accepted.

/company invite <player> — offers a place to an online player. They have two minutes to answer.
/company accept or /company decline — answers an invite.
/company kick <player> — removes someone.
/company leave — leaves a company you do not own.

A new member can deposit and nothing else until you give them a role. That is deliberate: people start with the least access, not the most.

/company role create <name> — makes a role, with no permissions until you grant some.
/company role setperm <role> <permission> — grants withdraw, invite or kick.
/company role setcap <role> <amount> — limits that role to a daily spend. Use none for no limit.
/company setrole <player> <role> — assigns a role. Use none to drop someone back to deposit-only.
/company role list — shows every role, its permissions and its cap.

The daily cap counts everything a person takes out that day, so it cannot be dodged by making several smaller withdrawals.

Large withdrawals need approval

Any withdrawal over $5,000 by someone who is not the owner does not go through immediately. It becomes a request the owner has to approve.

/company pending — lists waiting requests.
/company approve <number> — the owner releases the money.
/company deny <number> — the owner refuses it.

This exists so that one member cannot empty a company in a single command. The owner is never limited by it.

Ownership

/company transfer <player> — offers the company to an online player. They have to accept — ownership carries the tax liability on the balance, so it cannot be pushed onto someone.
/company acceptowner — accepts an offer of ownership. The previous owner stays on as an ordinary member.
/company disband — closes the company. You have to type it twice to confirm. The balance returns to you, and every member is removed.

The owner cannot use /company leave — leaving would strand the account and its money. Transfer it or disband it instead.

Not in the first version

Shares and dividends. There are not yet enough players with money for a share market to mean anything; every company would be one person trading with themselves.
Invoices and payroll. Planned for a later update, including paying staff who are offline.
Companies owning land. Plots stay in personal names for now.

Bedrock

Everything here is a chat command. There are no menus to click, no chests to open and no books to sign, so it works identically on Bedrock and Java.

One Bedrock note: Bedrock names begin with a dot, like .Steve. When you type someone's name you can include the dot or leave it out — both find the right player. Players must be online to be invited, given a role, or handed ownership.