More loyal customers will be willing to spend more for products, and they'll keep coming back often. This shows you all the customers who have visited your shop, as well as how loyal they are to your shop. The top button, with the star, is the Customer Loyalty Page. The Business Control Panel (BCP) is comprised of six major buttons. That means it's always there if you're doing a home business, but it's hidden if you're home and the owner of an off-site location. Once a business is started, a small interface will appear in the top-right corner of the screen as long as you are on the business lot. Close your business for now, as you don't have anything to sell. This sign allows you to open and close your business, as well as call in or send home all your employees. Immediately grab a Sim, and click the green sign you bought earlier. This is annoying, because you won't have anything set up. Home businesses, as soon as they are started, will immediately open to customers. Once you have determined your place of business, check it out if it's off-site. The husband can own an off-site business and have a conventional job, and the wife can do all the work at the shop. For example, let's say you have a married couple. Your business owner could even hold a job of his own. Ownership is very important, but we'll get to that soon.īy the way, just because someone owns a business doesn't mean they can't do something else. Interacting with the deed allows you to sell it back to the community or transfer ownership to someone else. In the Sim's inventory is a little deed, which you can pull out of his backpack and display on a wall or table.
Whether you started a home business or bought an off-site lot, whoever made the call becomes the owner. Note that even if a home business is started, you still cannot visit a lot if it's a residential one. If you accept, your business starts immediately. Once you have the sign, grab an adult Sim, click the phone, select "Business.," and then select "Start Home Business." A little confirmation box will appear. You'll need this sign for off-site businesses too, but it's usually already there. You can buy a little sign (in the thumbnail, the sign is green) for $20. Go to Buy Mode first, then select the Miscellaneous subsort of the Decorations sort. If you want to start a home business instead, don't do it yet.
Clicking any lot name will give you information on the lost size and value just hit the check button, and if you have the cash, the lot will be yours. Any lot name grayed out is owned by another family and unavailable to you. Simply take an adult Sim, click a phone, choose the "Real Estate." action, then "Purchase Community Lot." You'll see a pop-up window of all the community lots, first sorted on the left by overworld area (neighborhood, Downtown, or the new Bluewater Village), then on the right by lot name. If you wish to buy a lot for an off-site business, you only need to perform a few clicks. That's less work you'll have to do to start the business, and it gives you more time to concentrate on dealing with what precisely you're selling. Conversely, many of the extremely expensive lots already have tables, counters, display shelves, and Worktables spread intelligently through the building.
Lot price is determined by three factors: lot size, any buildings on the lot, and any objects in those buildings. The most expensive community lots cost nearly $100,000: expensive for even second- and possibly third-generation families. The cheapest lots are around of $6000 each, which isn't too bad relatively speaking, but it's still pretty steep for a new, first-generation family. In order to start an off-site business, you'll need some tremendous capital. It's the easiest, quickest, and cheapest business possible, although it's also the one with the least profit potential. For this section, we'll assume you're going with Business Model 1: marking up items for resale.
This section will show you step-by-step how to start up a business, both at home and off-site.