Setting vendors for new search

OK, I admit that sometimes I can't see the forest for the trees and this may be one of those instances.

I have three stores on one sim. Two stores sell items from networked vendors, and one store sells items from the Zod vendor, several instances of an original item in the vendor.

How can I set these vendors so that the items they are selling will show up in search?

The Zod vendor items are clearly labels in the name portion. Should the name of the items be in the description as well?

What about the networked vendors? I don't really own them so I can't modify them in any way, and their contents aren't showing in search right now.

Hi ! I've my own vendor system too...And I Dont have plans to change also...

So, near each vendor I put a 100% transparent prim with the same name and I set for sale and market to "show on search".

So, my vendors does not appear on the search, buyt my "dummy prims" appear and I can put any name and description

I thought about doing that, maybe placing the prim behind the vendor to be sure it doesn't accidentally get purchased.

you shouldn't actually have to put it to sale, just put costs of each item with it's name?

You do have to set an item for sale before it will show up in search, set it to $0 and sell contents from the empty prim.

But instead of using extra prims to do this, do it with pieces of your store, walls, floors, etc. Then you can have one explaining each line or type of products that you sell, and list the usual price of such items in the prim name or description.

i.e. "This store sells high quality tiling textures out of vendors, at L$20 each".

Thanks Arch. I actually got to looking at this yesterday, and realized that I could set each vendor for sale for 0/contents, and each already has the item name in the Name field, along with the price.

I'm hoping that helps me!

Darn, I thought I was the genius who figured this out. My stores signs and other things have all kinds of crazy names now that they are describing the items in my store.

I use vendor scripts I wrote myself, and the pay option disables the buy option, plus I have them set to 'pay object' on touch, so I just set the vendors for sale at the sale price, and set the vend to 'contents' anyways, so even if they were able to buy, they'd get it at the same price, so, I've been able to do it that way because I use one prim vendors to vend each item I sell.