Merchants

Alpha-2 Vendor NPC work-in-progress UI.^[1]

Merchant NPCs (also called Vendors) are present from the first stage of node development (Expedition).^[2]

Merchant NPCs are identified by a golden shimmer on their nameplates.^[3]
Merchant NPCs will in general be able to buy items from players.^[4]

Player merchants

Player stalls, personal shops, and auction houses enable buying from and selling to other players.^[5]

Player merchants will not be able to be placed on ships.^[6]

	Player stalls	Personal shops	Auction houses
Cost	Rental fee.^[7]^[8]	Placement certificate purchase.^[9]^[10]^[11]	Listing fee.^[12]
Location	Can be rented at locations near the unique building in an economic node^[12] or in Marketplaces.^[13]	Certificates from non-metropolis nodes, allow placement near the node's unique building or on a freehold.^[9]^[10]^[11] Certificates from economic node metropolises allow placement anywhere in the world.^[9]^[11]	At Markets in Village economic nodes allow raw resources and crafting materials to be posted.^[14] At Exchanges in Town nodes allow all goods/items to be posted.^[14] Metropolis stage Economic nodes enable remote bidding from linked economic nodes.^[14] Auctioneer NPC emissaries present in Vassal nodes allow some access to the parent node's auction house.^[12]
Player presence	An attendant NPC is assigned to the stall. Character does not need to be online or at the stall.^[15]^[7]^[8]	Player must be online and present at the shop.^[15]^[8]	N/A
Storage	Linked to character's warehouse.^[16]	Linked to character's inventory.^[16]	Raw materials and gatherables are automatically deposited within the listing node's local warehouse.^[17]^[12] Anything other than raw materials and gatherables will be mailed to the purchaser.^[17]
Advertising	Items and services are listed on Bulletin boards in the same region.^[18] There may or may not^[9] also be listings at auction houses.^[5]	Custom billboard appears above the character.^[15] Items are not listed in the parent node or auction houses.^[5]	Items listed are visible in community boards (bulletin boards).^[9] Metropolis level economic nodes enable worldwide sale prices for auction houses across Verra.^[14]
PvP	Players are not able to be attacked or robbed while occupying their player stall inside the limits of a node.^[10] Material losses may occur if the node's warehouse is destroyed during a node siege.^[19]^[20]^[21]^[16]	Players may be killed while occupying their personal shop and are subject to material loss due to normal death penalties.^[16]	N/A