Working the Jar — a staff guide

You DJ, host or dance at a venue that runs XTech. This page is the whole job from your side: what the jar does when you touch it, where your tips go, and what you can see and set on the web. Two minutes, start to finish.

Logging in

1. Wear the venue's group tag (most venues require it — if the jar answers a touch with “please use Pay to tip”, activate the group and try again).
2. Touch the jar. You get a picker of the jobs you hold at this venue — DJ, Host, whatever the venue has assigned you.
3. Pick your job. You're on the clock: the jar renames itself to you, shows your profile picture, and the Pay buttons appear for visitors.

The jar menu, while you're on the clock

Touch the jar again during your session:

Tips & your split

• Visitors Pay the jar; the venue's split applies the moment the money lands — your share arrives in-world immediately, no waiting on the web, no payday.
• You're told about each tip as it happens (IM or a popup — the venue picks the style), and the jar's hover text keeps a running total of your session.
• Every tip is also logged to the web, where My Tips keeps your full history — including tips that landed while the web was unreachable; they catch up on their own.
• Each payout is a tracked L$ transaction. If a payout ever fails outright, the jar owner is alerted with the reason and it's recorded — a disputed tip is a lookup, not an argument.

When the booth is busy

1. Touch the jar while someone else is on it and pick the job you'll work — you're queued as up next, and the current staffer is told someone's waiting.
2. When they log out, you're IM'd that the booth is free — touch the jar and go. If your venue swaps streams, the handoff is seamless: the music holds rather than bouncing through the house stream.
3. Changed your mind? Touch the jar again for Go / Withdraw.

Your stream (DJs)

• Set your stream URL on the web — My Profile → My Job Settings. That's the URL the parcel plays when you log in (if your role swaps the stream at this venue).
• No URL set? Logging in changes nothing — the parcel keeps playing whatever it was playing. You'll never silence a venue by accident.
• Music not switching to you? Fix Stream in the jar menu re-asserts it.

If the web is down

You'll know because the jar's hover text shows a red OFFLINE note. Everything important keeps working:

• Tips still split instantly — the money side never depends on the web. The logs queue up and reconcile when it's back.
• You can usually still log in — the venue's server remembers recent staff. If it can't verify you, the jar offers Ask a Manager: a manager gets an IM, approves you at the venue server, and you touch the jar again to get in.

Your web login

1. Touch the jar, choose Web Access. You get a link — it's one-time and expires in about 15 minutes (just ask for another if it lapses).
2. First visit: the link signs you in automatically and asks you to set a username and password. After that, log in normally with those.
3. Forgot the password? Use Forgotten password? on the sign-in page — type your avatar name and we'll send a login link as an instant message to your Second Life account. It works for 15 minutes and lets you set a new one. Web Access from the jar still works too, if you're standing next to it.

What's on the web for you

Staff see a focused version of the venue dashboard — your pages, not the management ones:

Getting messages on Discord

If your venue uses Discord, you can link your account and the things that matter — cover calls, shift checks, reminders — will reach you there too. The point is simple: they'll find you when you're not logged into Second Life. An SL instant message to an offline avatar waits until you next log in, which is no use for a cover call about tonight.

1. Join your venue's Discord server, if you haven't.
2. On the web, go to My Profile → Discord → Link Discord account and approve it.
3. We send you a test message straight away, so you know it works.

Press Send test message any time to check it still does — and Unlink whenever you like.

Linking also personalises /next in your venue's server: it answers with your next shift rather than the venue's next event. Replies are only visible to you, so it's safe to ask in a busy channel.

We ask Discord only for your username and account ID — never your email, your other servers, or your messages. Nobody else at the venue can see it; they only see that you're linked. See Discord → Privacy.

Cover & shift checks

Two things your venue may send you about a shift:

"Can anyone cover this?"

When someone can't make their slot, a cover call goes out to everyone who holds the same job. Whoever takes it first gets it.

• On Discord — a direct message with a Claim this cover button. One press and it's yours.
• In Second Life — the same thing as a one-click link in the IM. No login needed.

Either way you'll get the usual reminders before the set, as if it had always been yours.

"Will you be there?"

Some venues send a staff check a few days before your slot, with I'll be there and I can't make it (or a link, in-world). It takes one tap and it genuinely helps — your manager can see at a glance who's confirmed.

Answering a resident's question

If your venue has a Discord staff channel, questions residents ask the in-world bot that it can't answer show up there with a Reply button. Press it, type your answer, and it arrives as an instant message to them in Second Life, signed with your name. You don't need a linked account to answer — anyone who can see the channel can.

Asking the bot when you're next on

If your venue runs a notice bot, you can IM it directly — no web login, no Discord:

next all is staff-only. Residents can ask next too, but they get the public answer: private events and any night whose slot is still open are left out, the same as on the venue's public board.