1 / 3Built interface — Admin shop GUI
Overview
Economy Core replaces the stack of separate plugins most servers run for money. It registers a Vault economy provider, so every other plugin that pays or charges players works without changes, and then builds the rest of the economy on top of that one ledger: shops, an auction house, a bank, jobs and taxes all read and write the same balances and the same transaction log.
Player shops are chest-based with a sign or a GUI, with per-item limits and a listing fee you set. Admin shops use a chest-style GUI with categories, buy and sell prices and stock that can be infinite or restocked on a timer. The auction house lets players list items with a starting bid and a duration, and it settles automatically when the timer ends, with the item returned if nobody bids.
The bank pays interest on deposits at a rate and interval you choose, with a cap so early players cannot compound forever. Jobs give players a pay grade per action, such as mining, farming or crafting, with promotion thresholds and a daily earning limit. Taxes take a percentage from shop sales, auction wins or bank interest and send it to a server account you can spend from or burn.
The inflation report is the part most economy plugins leave out. Once a day the plugin totals money created, money removed and money held, then writes a summary to the console, a file and optionally a Discord webhook, so you can see whether jobs are minting faster than shops and taxes are sinking. Config lives in config.yml and shops.yml, and PlaceholderAPI placeholders expose balances and ranks.
What you get
- Paper plugin .jar registering a Vault economy provider for every other plugin
- Player chest shops and admin GUI shops with categories, stock and price rules
- Auction house with bids, durations and automatic settlement
- Bank with interest rate, interval and a balance cap per player
- Jobs with pay grades, promotion thresholds and daily earning limits
- Tax rules on sales, auctions and interest paid to a server account
- Daily inflation report to console, file and an optional Discord webhook
- PlaceholderAPI placeholders for balances, ranks and job levels
Eligible resources
The plan covers these resource types. Individual resources are listed in your Gaming Library as they publish.
- Currency provider
- Shop GUIs
- Auction house
- Bank rules
- Job definitions
- Tax rules
Features
- One ledger for everything
- Shops, auctions, bank, jobs and taxes write to the same balance and transaction log, so every coin can be traced to its source.
- Money in, money out
- The inflation report totals what jobs and interest create against what shops and taxes remove, so you can adjust rates before prices drift.
- Works with what you run
- The Vault provider means existing plugins that charge or pay players keep working, and PlaceholderAPI exposes balances to scoreboards and tab.
Compatibility and requirements
Works with
- Paper and Purpur 1.20.4 through 1.21.x
- Vault for the economy API and LuckPerms for job and shop permissions
- PlaceholderAPI for balance and rank placeholders
- MySQL or SQLite storage, with a migration command from EssentialsX balances
You need
- A Paper or Purpur server you control
- Vault installed, and LuckPerms or another permissions plugin
- Java 21 for current Paper builds
Updates and content cadence
- The full economy plugin and its config set from your first day
- Compatibility updates for each Paper release and Vault or PlaceholderAPI change while subscribed
- New shop templates and job types published as they are written
License
- Licensed for one server network you own or operate.
- You may edit, re-texture and configure resources for that network.
- Reselling, sharing or re-uploading the files is not permitted.
Installation
- 1Download Economy Core from your Gaming Library.
- 2Place the .jar in your plugins folder alongside Vault and restart to generate the config files.
- 3Set the currency name, starting balance and storage type in config.yml, then define categories and prices in shops.yml.
- 4Run /eco migrate if you are moving balances from another economy plugin, then /eco reload.
If you cancel
- Access and updates continue until the end of the period you paid for.
- The licence to run the plugin ends with the subscription.
- Remove the plugin from live servers once access ends.
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