How to deliver ranks automatically on Minecraft

Automatic rank delivery works like this: the payment is approved, the store queues a console command, and your server runs it with no staff member involved. The command usually comes from your permissions plugin, such as lp user {identifier} parent addtemp vip 30d accumulate in LuckPerms. The rest of the setup is choosing how that command reaches the server (a connector plugin or RCON) and testing it before you open sales.

Why manual delivery breaks down

Manual delivery means someone checks the payment, finds the player and runs lp user ... parent add by hand. It works for the first few sales.

Then a player buys at 3 a.m., nobody from staff is online, and the next thing you see is a support ticket asking where the rank is. A typo in the name gives the rank to the wrong account. And checking payments becomes somebody's daily chore.

Automatic delivery moves that step to the store. Whatever command your staff runs today is the command the store runs for them.

How the delivery flow works

There are three parts:

1. You add the command the server should run to the rank product.
2. When the order is approved, the store queues that command, with the buyer's name in place of {identifier}.
3. A connector on your server picks up the command, or the store connects to the console over RCON, and the command runs.

In Gamecart, the server delivery docs describe that flow: a command with the On Purchase trigger is queued after the payment is approved.

Connector plugin or RCON

Both deliver the same command. What changes is how it gets to the console.

For most servers the plugin is the simpler starting point, and it is what the Gamecart docs recommend for most servers and proxies. RCON fits a server where you can't or don't want to add a plugin, such as vanilla.

Installing the plugin

In Gamecart, the Minecraft executor guide goes like this:

1. In Integrations > Servers, click Create Server, pick Plugin and give it a name, such as Survival.
2. Download the JAR for your platform (Spigot/Paper/Folia, BungeeCord, Velocity or Fabric) and drop it into plugins/ (or mods/ on Fabric).
3. Start the server once to generate the config and paste the token into serverToken.
4. Restart and run gamecart status from the console.

pollIntervalSeconds accepts 5 through 600. Use one token per installation: two servers on the same token compete for the same commands.

Setting up RCON

In server.properties, set enable-rcon=true, choose an rcon.password and check rcon.port (the Paper docs list 25575 as the default). With a blank password, RCON won't start at all.

Then, in Integrations > Servers, create a server with the RCON method and enter the public host, port and password. The Gamecart RCON page notes that this method has no token.

The rank commands, using LuckPerms

The examples use LuckPerms, but the same thinking applies to any permissions plugin. Write the command the way you would type it in the console, without a leading slash.

For a permanent rank:

lp user {identifier} parent add vip

parent add adds the group next to the ones the player already has and removes nothing.

For a 30-day rank:

lp user {identifier} parent addtemp vip 30d accumulate

Durations take forms like 30d or 1mo3d13h45m. The accumulate at the end is the part people tend to miss. According to the LuckPerms configuration page, the default temporary-add-behaviour is deny, which means "the command will just fail if you try to add a duplicate temporary node". Without the modifier, on the default config, a player who renews before the rank runs out pays and gets nothing. With accumulate, the new days stack on top of the remaining ones.

You can also let the store handle expiry instead. Use parent add, then set the product's duration in days. Gamecart schedules commands with the On Expiration trigger when the purchased item has an expiration date, and that is where lp user {identifier} parent remove vip goes. Pick one approach per product. With both in place, it gets hard to tell what removed a player's rank.

The gear icon on each command row holds Ignore quantity. When it is off, the command runs once per unit bought, so two units of a 30-day rank with accumulate become 60 days. Turn it on for a permanent rank. The other setting there, Offline delivery, is covered further down.

Before you decide what goes into each rank, check what Mojang lets you sell. A perk that gives a competitive edge is off limits, no matter how well it is delivered.

The player name

{identifier} holds the value the buyer typed at checkout. On a Minecraft server, that is the username. If it is misspelled, the command runs with the wrong name, and LuckPerms gives the rank to another account or to nobody.

Servers that let Bedrock players in through Geyser need one more check. In the default Floodgate config, Bedrock names get a . prefix and spaces become _. A player who shows up as Steve Pro on their phone joins your server as .Steve_Pro, and that is the name the command needs. Run a test purchase with a Bedrock account before you advertise ranks to those players.

What happens when the player is offline

In Gamecart, each command has an Offline delivery setting. The command docs say to turn it on if the command may run while the player is offline.

So the question is whether your command works without the player online. A give has nobody to hand the item to, so leave the setting off. A permissions command may work offline, but confirm it on your server: turn the setting on for your test product, buy it with a name that is offline, and check the rank when that player joins.

Test before you sell

Create a cheap test product, such as "Test Rank 1 day", with the same command as the real rank. Put it in a hidden category: in Your store > Products, Hide category removes a category from the store lists but keeps it reachable by direct link.

Then:

1. Run gamecart status in the console (or check the host and port, for RCON).
2. Buy the product with your own username.
3. Check that the order is approved in Sales > Orders.
4. Follow the command in Integrations > Commands and click Refresh.
5. Join the server and run lp user YourName parent info to list the player's groups.

Executed means the delivery was recorded. Only checking in game tells you the command did what you meant.

When the rank doesn't arrive

If you are still putting the store together, how to create a store for your server walks through the other decisions in order.