aa-shop

An Alliance Auth plugin that lets auth members run a public shop stocked automatically from their own EVE assets.

Features

• Create and manage your own shops from the Shop entry in the auth sidebar.
• Every published shop has a public storefront anyone can browse — no login required. Unpublished shops stay private to you as a preview until you're ready to share.
• Sell ships, modules (rigs, drones, implants), and blueprint copies, kept in stock automatically from your allianceauth-corptools assets and priced however you choose — a fixed price, "Ask", or a percentage of Jita.
• Run personal shops from your own characters or corporation shops sourced from corp hangar divisions (needs the relevant corptools access).
• Shoppers browse, search, and open a detail page for anything you list; you can feature and hide individual items.

Requirements

• Alliance Auth >= 5
• allianceauth-corptools >= 3, installed and syncing character (and, for corp shops, corporation) assets

Installation

1. Install into your Alliance Auth virtual environment:

   pip install aa-shop
   

2. Add "shop" to INSTALLED_APPS in your auth project's local.py:

   INSTALLED_APPS += ["shop"]
   

3. Let the storefront serve its public pages — required, or anonymous visitors are redirected to login:

   APPS_WITH_PUBLIC_VIEWS = ["storefront"]
   

4. Run migrations and collect static files, then restart your AA services:

   python manage.py migrate
   python manage.py collectstatic
   

5. EVE universe data: the ship and blueprint pickers read from django-eveuniverse, so make sure its data is populated (load the full EVE universe, or at least the Ship category, with eveuniverse's load tooling). Types that aren't loaded won't be selectable.

6. Grant the shop.basic_access permission (Django admin, or via groups/states) to members who should be able to run shops.

7. Selling blueprint copies additionally needs a read_blueprints ESI token: the character's esi-characters.read_blueprints.v1 for personal shops, or a director's esi-corporations.read_blueprints.v1 for corporation shops. Registering the character with corptools already covers the character scope.

Scheduled tasks

Add these to your local.py so stock and prices stay current:

from celery.schedules import crontab

# Recompute stock for every shop, hourly (ships, modules, blueprint copies).
CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE["shop_refresh_all_stock"] = {
    "task": "shop.tasks.refresh_all_stock",
    "schedule": crontab(minute=0),
}
# Re-price anything set to a percentage of Jita, every 6 hours.
CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE["shop_refresh_pct_prices"] = {
    "task": "shop.tasks.refresh_pct_prices",
    "schedule": crontab(minute=0, hour="*/6"),
}

Stock is read from your corptools assets; the hourly task also nudges corptools to pull fresh assets first, so you don't need to tune its update rings. ESI caches assets and blueprints for about an hour, so hourly is as often as is useful. Optional settings: SHOP_REFRESH_CORPTOOLS_ASSETS = False skips the asset nudge, and SHOP_TASKS_PRIORITY (1 = urgent … 9 = idle, default 7) sets the priority of these background tasks.

Usage

Members with access get a Shop entry in the auth sidebar. From there you can create a personal or corporation shop, name it and give it a short link, choose what it sells (ships, modules, blueprint copies), and publish it. While a shop is unpublished only you can see it, as a preview; once published, share its link with anyone.

Stock and prices fill in automatically from your assets on the schedule above — you just set your pricing rules and pick which items to feature or hide.

Contributing

Design docs and implementation plans live in docs/superpowers/. The storefront stylesheet ships compiled (shop/static/shop/storefront.css); to rebuild it after changing storefront templates, use the standalone Tailwind v4 CLI + daisyUI (no Node required):

bash scripts/build-css.sh        # add --watch during development

Releasing (maintainers, needs pip install build twine):

bash scripts/release.sh          # build + twine check
bash scripts/release.sh --test   # ...then upload to TestPyPI
bash scripts/release.sh --pypi   # ...then upload to PyPI

License

MIT