Quick answer
Sell confirmed surplus, keep quest or crafting materials, and adjust price using the red pricing warning, the customer's face and the market arrow—not from a static “best price” list. The official description says supply, demand, shop prestige and decoration bonuses all influence pricing, and since the September 4 SHOP UPDATE those bonuses are calculated on top of the base price.
The first transaction
- Place the table or fixture in the shop, and leave walkways: customers walk around furniture and refuse to buy when the path is completely blocked.
- Drag an item from your inventory onto it.
- Set the quantity and a test price. If the price text turns red, you are at least 10% above the acceptable range — pull it back down.
- Invite a passing customer if you want to accelerate the sale; Steam Community shop guidance notes that a specific customer can be invited only once.
- Customers now pay by themselves: they drop gold on the counter and a single interaction completes the sale. Record the result in purchase history.
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Read the market signals
| Signal | What it tells you | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Red price text while pricing | You are 10–33% above the acceptable range (Ver. 1.4.2 helper) | Lower the price or accept the risk that customers walk |
| Green demand arrow | High demand | A higher-than-average price may still sell |
| Yellow demand arrow | Average demand | Start close to the shown market value |
| Red demand arrow | Low demand | Lower the price, wait, or use the item elsewhere |
| Red customer face | Too expensive | Reduce price or remove the item |
| Yellow customer face | Acceptable | Keep the price while collecting more evidence |
| Green customer face | Too cheap / very happy | Test a small increase |
| “Line is full” complaint | The counter queue is genuinely full | Serve the queue faster; this is no longer logged as “too expensive” |
The red pricing cue is the game's own tolerance meter: the September 5 patch (Ver. 1.4.2) turns the price text red once you exceed the acceptable price by 10–33%. Past that window customers can walk away immediately, so red text means “profit push in progress”, not “guaranteed sale”.
How pricing works after the SHOP UPDATE
The September 4 announcement reworked the pricing logic: base prices are set first, and active shop bonuses (prestige, decorations) calculate their percentage on top of that base. Two practical consequences:
- The developer explicitly asks players to re-check every price after the update — old tags may no longer reflect the same final value.
- On your first save load after Ver. 1.4.2, items priced far too high are auto-adjusted once to a random acceptable value. That value is intentionally not the maximum, so re-test and fine-tune rather than trusting the auto-fix.
- Ver. 1.4.3 (September 7) clarified the pricing interface and fixed the furniture price stacking bug: picking up and re-placing furniture no longer multiplies the prices displayed on the items sitting on it. If you rearranged your shop on an earlier build, re-check your displayed prices anyway.
Sell, keep or craft?
- Keep: anything named as a recipe, quest objective, upgrade material or rare-looking drop until its use is clear.
- Craft: materials that produce a meaningful weapon, armor, recovery item or shop fixture for the next run.
- Deconstruct: regretted a craft? The SHOP UPDATE lets you salvage unwanted items and recover part of the original crafting materials instead of leaving them to rot in a chest.
- Sell: confirmed surplus after the active quest and next craft are covered.
- Reinvest: use profit on the next useful equipment or shop model, not a decorative purchase with no tested benefit.
Layout, comfort and prestige
Customer AI changed on September 4: shoppers physically path around displays, stop and complain when furniture walls off the route completely, and queue feedback is now explicit. The edge-to-edge table barricade is dead — treat walkability as a shop-layout requirement. Ver. 1.4.3 then reworked the queueing logic itself for a steadier flow during peak hours and fixed shoppers walking upstairs to pay while an active counter was free on the ground floor, so place a working counter on your main sales floor. The same update added three larger properties (Darkmoon Fair, Ivory Tower and Old Vinery) when you outgrow the starting floor.
Community reports describe comfort, invitation behavior and purchase-history signals, while the official store page says furniture can provide permanent combat benefits and improve shop appeal. Treat these as two connected systems: test one fixture or decoration at a time and note whether the effect changes customer behavior or run readiness. The expanded item UI now shows a deeper stat and sales breakdown on hover, so read it before and after each change.
No fake calculator yet
Use the four pricing inputs named by Steam—current supply, demand, shop prestige and decoration bonuses—then read the red pricing warning, customer reaction and market arrow before adjusting the tag. This decision method works across the shop loop without depending on a single fixed price table.
Pricing data is patch-sensitive
The September 4 update rebalanced base market values across multiple item categories and adjusted furniture crafting recipes, and the pricing formula itself was reworked the same day. Any price list or calculator written before September 4, 2026 is suspect; the updates page records those changes alongside the official economy description.
Sources and scope
Source: the official Steam description for supply, demand, prestige, decoration and furniture effects; the official SHOP UPDATE and Ver. 1.4.2 announcements (September 4–5, 2026) for the pricing rework, red pricing cue, checkout changes and layout rules; the Steam Community Guides hub for customer-reaction, invitation and purchase-history guidance. Checked September 6, 2026.
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