📘Section 12: Business Guidebook

Rules required to be followed by business owners and employees

Rule #50: Obtaining a Business

Description: Residents interested in opening a business within Isles RP must be a notable member of the community. Someone who is known around the city and has been a resident for at least 30 days in order to properly build RP around your character and potential business.

Once sufficient RP has been established towards your potential business, please open a ticket in the Isles RP discord to present your ideas to the Chamber of Commerce (CoC).

Please Note: The CoC may not always be accepting business proposals or rather, they might only be accepting certain types of proposals.

Rule #51: Business Owner Conduct

Description: Business Owners are required to remain active members of the server, and must work at least 8 hours a month at their own business. Owners are allowed to commit crime however if you involve your business into any illegal operations (i.e funneling drug money through your business account), your business is vulnerable to a PD investigation and legal action. If the DOJ rules the business to be shut down, your business license will be revoked. Do crime, just don’t use your business as a front! Or do and live out the RP behind it.

It is your responsibility as owner to hire/fire/and reprimand your employees. Failure to have your business open routinely will result in CoC interference. You may not mass-hire in an attempt to flood your chances of your business being open. Residents are only allowed to own or co-own ONE business at a time.

Punishments: Failure to comply with this conduct can result in CoC action against your business, from warnings to loss of the business.

Rule #52: Employee Expectations

Description: Employees are required to post on The Y or advertisements when the business is open and they are clocked in. Being clocked in with the business closed or not accessible by patrons, will be considered Paycheck Farming and is against general server rules. Each business has the autonomy to set minimum hours however be mindful that the more active a business is, more RP is created. For food businesses, crafting excessive amounts of food for yourself to avoid RP and buying from other businesses is considered Low Quality RP and is against server rules.

All employees MUST be added to the Chamber of Commerce discord and given the proper roles. If you wish to have a separate discord for your business, you must ask Isles RP server staff for permission to do so and it should make sense. For example, a Record Label might ask for a personal discord to avoid music leaks.

Punishments: Failure to comply with this can result in CoC action against your business, from warnings to loss of the business.

Rule #53: Event Requirement

Description: All businesses are required to host or participate in at least 1 event a month. Sales or promotions do not equate to an event. If your business is sponsoring or partnering with another company can satisfy your event requirement however, just catering an event is not enough. If you can not meet this quota, it is your responsibility to alert the CoC in your business’ management chat.

Punishments: Failure to comply with this can result in CoC action against your business, from warnings to loss of the business.

Rule #54: Business Auctions

Description: If the CoC revokes someone’s business and wishes for it to remain in the server, it will be put up for auction. Business Auctions are conducted in the main Isles RP discord and will be publicly announced. During this time, residents can open a ticket to present their proposal for taking over the business. The previous owner cannot submit a proposal to get their business back.