This is due to the Post Cap in your Auctioning Operation being an invalid value, or set to 0. A common mistake is setting this value to 0 in an attempt to set 'no limit' to how many items to post, where this will simply disable posting for that operation. This field accepts custom strings, so ensure the resulting value is between 1 and 50,000 (Retai...

The TradeSkillMaster website does not currently support Classic data history/tracking. The only place to select your Classic realm is while adding it to your Desktop Application. Related Article: How do I setup the Desktop Application? If you are looking for Great Deals on your Classic Realm, they are available in-game only at the Auction House in t...

Info As of TSM 4.10, you can search and filter the Base Group for any ungrouped items in the game, without needing to use the TSM Group Maker. Select Groups Select the Base Group Enter a search or filter Select the items Select the Group or create a new Group Click Move items Additionally, you can import item IDs directly from Wowhead How do I filte...

Congratulations! Welcome to the TradeSkillMaster 4.14 Beta Test. This document sets out to get you started with TSM 4.14 including joining our Discord server then installing the addon files. IMPORTANT Before anything is explained and before you start you need to join the TradeSkillMaster Discord server. You can join it by visiting  http://discord.gg...

As of September 4th, 2024 - the legacy Premium single-tier plan is no longer offered for new subscribers. New subscribers will be offered a choice of two TSM Premium plans to choose from, Gold and Platinum, which are now detailed on the TSM website. To celebrate the launch of the new TSM Premium plans we are granting free access to the top-tier Plat...

This message is displayed in two scenarios. 1. You do not have your TSM Desktop Application installed, configured, and running. Ensure you have done this by checking the article: How do I set up the TSM Desktop Application? 2. If you have verified the TSM Desktop Application is installed, configured, and running - it may be that your pricing data in...

Here we will describe some of the Price Sources referenced on the What is a Price Source? page in more detail. Price Sources will return a numerical quantity in gold/silver/copper, and can be split between external and internal sources. External sources are provided by and/or calculated by TradeSkillMaster, such as DBMarket or DBRegionSaleAvg from A...

This guide is a general list of steps to follow to setup the TSM Desktop Application. If you have difficulties, please feel free to visit us in Discord. This guide assumes you already have an active TSM Account on our website. If not, please create an account now.  Step-by-step guide Install TSM Desktop Application  Download links: Windows | Mac Whi...

Info Crafting Operations are unique to TradeSkillMaster and allow for stocking a given number of items to use or sell, based on your current inventory and with a minimum profit threshold. The Restock Options section gives access to options that control how many items are added to your crafting queue and whether to consider a minimum profit: Min rest...

Opening the core TradeSkillMaster Dashboard can be done by clicking on the TSM icon around your minimap, or typing /tsm  News & Information This section on the left will display the latest Blog Post entries from the TSM website.  App Sync and Price Data Status Icon This icon will be coloured Green, Yellow, or Red depending on the status of your ...

The most common reason for missing information in your profession window related to crafting costs or profits is missing pricing data. Make sure your TSM Desktop Application is installed and configured. Related Article: How do I setup the TSM Desktop Application? If you have pricing data and are still missing crafting costs or profits in your crafte...

When you have the TradeSkillMaster Desktop Application installed, it is automatically generating backups of your TSM Addon profile, settings, and data. This is useful for data recovery! If you need to revert to a previous state, or have lost your in-game groups and operations, you can restore one of the backups via the Desktop App. 1. Open the TSM D...

Oceanic realms are classed as US or NA by Blizzard, so they're displayed under the US region in any realm selection for TSM....

This page attempts to explain exactly how AuctionDB calculates the market value of items. AuctionDB uses an algorithm with a bunch of steps to make it as accurate as possible while using as little memory/disk space to store the data as possible. Let's use the following data set as an example (assume these are gold values and each number represents t...

For the TSM Desktop Application, you can uninstall the program through 'Add or remove programs' menu in Windows, or via the uninstaller located in the application directory - the default directory is Program Files (x86)\TradeSkillMaster Application For the TSM Addon suite, you can remove the TSM Addon folders from your Interface\Addons directory to ...

Purchase and Sale data is recorded by TSM when the mail containing the purchase or the sale is collected from the mailbox. If you are using other addons that modify/takeover the Mail UI, or you are using the default Blizzard UI, then TSM may encounter issues with recording this information. Additionally, depending on the item you are buying or selli...

This can usually be resolved by disabling any addons, or options within addons, that have auto/quick/fast loot capabilities. And then enabling auto looting in your in-game settings....

Price Sources are price-based sources for an item, and will return a positive numerical quantity in gold/silver/copper such as 10g 52s 12c. Price Sources will return a numerical quantity in gold/silver/copper, and can be split between  external  and  internal  sources. External sources are provided by and/or calculated by TradeSkillMaster, such as  ...

This page attempts to explain exactly how AuctionDB calculates the market value of items. AuctionDB uses an algorithm with a bunch of steps to make it as accurate as possible while using as little memory / disk space to store the data as possible. Let's use the following data set as an example (assume these are gold values and each number represents...

Info Shopping Operations are unique to TradeSkillMaster and allows for targeted shopping of items with a pre-defined maximum price. The General Options section includes the main parameters: Maximum action price. The maximum price to show in the shopping results. This field accepts custom strings. Show auctions above max pric e. If enabled, auctions ...

With the launch of TSM version 4.11, Auction House tables have been significantly improved and an option to add/remove columns to the table is available. To add the 'Buyout (total)' (3) column to your table, select the vertical-ellipses/overflow menu (1) in the top left of the table and select in the 'Hide Columns' menu (2):...

Delete Info Other Auction House addons provide pricing data, not to be confused with TradeSkillMaster pricing data in the item tooltips. The following tooltip shows data from: The Undermine Journal TradeSkillMaster Auctionator...

Accessing the General Settings can be done by clicking the TSM minimap icon or typing /tsm After selecting the Settings tab in the header, the General Settings page is the first shown. In the General Options section, configuration options are available for the following: Store operations globally. If this option is enabled any operation created will...

With TradeSkillMaster Premium, you can search for any item that would appear on the Black Market Auction House via the TradeSkillMaster website. In the following example, the item is currently listed on two US realms and one EU realm, while Ravencrest EU is set as the 'home' realm from the selection dropdown in the top right: Below this results page...

When setting up the crafting operation, you need to specify the minimum  profit  you want to get from the craft. This means if the item takes 100g to craft, a 100% profit would require the item to sell for 200g or more. If you want to be sure the item  sells  for 110% crafting, then you should set the minimum profit to 10% crafting....

Info Vendoring Operations allow for the purchasing or selling of items at the vendor based on pre-defined conditions. The Buy Options section has settings that include: Enable buying. If enabled, items in the selected group will be purchased from the targeted vendor. This is enabled by default. Restock quantity. The maximum number of items to have i...

Here we will describe some of the Value Sources referenced on the What is a Value Source? page in more detail. Value Sources will return a positive integer or a decimal number, and can also be split between external and internal sources. External sources are provided by and/or calculated by TradeSkillMaster, such as DBRegionSaleRate from AuctionDB o...

If you have signed up to TSM Premium by setting up a recurring subscription, you can cancel it via your PayPal Profile: Log in to your PayPal account. Click Profile / Settings near the top of the page. Click Payments, or click here . Click "Manage pre-approved payments", pictured. Select "TradeSkillMaster LLC - TSM 6/12 Month Subscription" Click Can...

Info Mailing Operations are unique to TradeSkillMaster and allow for managing and distributing items between alt characters with pre-defined conditions. In the General Options section, the primary parameters for mailing are available: Target character. The name of the character to send items to. If the character is on another connected realm, you ca...

The TSM Desktop Application requires your system time and timezone to be correct in order to function. Ensure your system time and timezone are accurate for your location and with consideration to Daylight Saving if your location observes it. Your time may be correct when compared to your watch, but it would technically be incorrect if the timezone ...

Here we will describe some of the Functions referenced on the What is a Function? page in more detail. Functions are expressions or terms that can be used as building blocks to combine Price Sources and Value Sources to answer questions or create decision points. They cannot be used in isolation, and don't inherently provide any numerical quantities...

If you only wish to migrate TSM settings, you can open the Backups folder via the TSM Desktop Application and copy the automatically-generated backup files (in .zip format) to your new system or computer in the same directory. From here you can restore the backup through the TSM Desktop Application. Related article: How do I restore a backup of my a...

This page features written TSM Addon and Desktop App guides, for beginner and intermediate users. The Lazy Goldmaker - Beginner to Intermediate (English) Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Groups Part 3: Operations 101 Part 4: Value Sources and pricing Part 5: Using auctioning to post your items Part 6: Using shopping scans to find great deals Part 7: Usi...

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Name This one is relatively self-explanatory. You can type the full or partial name of an item. Examples Silk Cloth This filter will match Bolt of Embersilk Cloth, Bolt of Silk Cloth, Embersilk Cloth, and Silk Cloth. You can use the exact qualifier to only find items whose name matches exactly, however the exact qualifier only works with Shopping se...

Retail - Dragonflight Patch 10.1 General TSM Item Cache will be rebuilt whenever the Game client version changes i.e after a hotfix Holding shift while mousing over an item to evaluate TSM sources for a stack of items is no longer supported due to changes made by Blizzard. Destroy data for Dragonflight items is not currently available. Browse (Shopp...

Since TSM Addon version 4.14 you can copy item IDs from Wowhead directly into the in-game import, rather than using the old online group maker that has since been retired. Your first step is to apply a filter to the Wowhead item database. Note: Make sure you're not filtering spells or other types of entries. Once you've applied your filter, you can ...

These are value-based sources for an item, and will return a positive integer, or a decimal number such as 100, or 0.3. Value Sources will return a positive integer or a decimal number, and can also be split between  external  and  internal  sources. External sources are provided by and/or calculated by TradeSkillMaster, such as  DBRegionSaleRate  f...

The TSM Desktop app is looking for certain files in the WoW directory selected to ensure it's valid. Ensure that you are selecting the directory you are launching the game from, and that you have launched the game at least once before selecting the directory. Related article: How do I setup the TSM Desktop Application?...

Using the TSM Web API to get Auction House pricing data! What is an API? An application programming interface or API is a set of clearly defined methods of communication between various software components. For TradeSkillMaster, these methods of communication allow an API user to query TSM for item pricing and other relevant information to use in th...

The item cache is rebuilt whenever the game client version changes. The game client version changes after a hotfix, or a patch is released by Blizzard. Depending on the frequency of these releases by Blizzard, depends on how often TSM will need to rebuild the item cache. It may take a few minutes for the process to complete, you can leave the game r...

It's quite likely that you are attempting to login with your TSM username, the error reads "Invalid email or password" - so ensure the email address is correct. If you have forgotten your TSM username, you can request a password reset with your email address....

If you deleted or otherwise modified the #Default operation(s) that come with TradeSkillMaster, you can simply create another operation with the name #Default to recreate it back to default settings....

All addon (and game) settings are stored in your 'World of Warcraft/GAME_VERSION/WTF/' folder. Specifically, TradeSkillMaster stores its settings in a file within the 'WTF -> Account -> ACCNAME -> SavedVariables' folder under _retail_, _classic_, or _classicera_ with the file being named TradeSkillMaster.lua.  Be sure you have WoW completel...

There are four reasons why crafting won't restock: Profit: Crafting will only restock if it is profitable to do so when a minimum profit is enabled - check your minimum profit setting in your crafting operation. Min Restock Quantity: Crafting will only restock if it can craft at least your minimum restock quantity so if you have this set to 2 it mus...

In patch 8.3 for Retail WoW, Blizzard introduced a throttle to the action of cancelling an auction. After approximately 50 cancels, the game will delay each cancel action for roughly 60 seconds. More information: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/auction-house-much-slower-today-june-16/556722/13...

The latest changes to the Addon can be found on our Blog with the 'Change Log' Category TradeSkillMaster Blog: Addon Change Log...

It is not currently possible to modify the font in TSM directly. However there is an option to scale the TSM addon windows by holding shift while resizing any TSM interface from the bottom right corner. Once you have scaled the window, you can release shift and then resize the window as normal....

Auctioning Operations are executed in the order they are assigned to a group. If you have multiple operations they will each attempt to post items according to the parameters defined in the operation in consecutive order. For example, the first operation you have applied to a group may be attempting to post a total of 20 items per the parameters def...

Accessing your Groups can be done from the core TSM Dashboard, by clicking on the minimap icon or typing /tsm. Delete Info Groups are containers for a collection of items you wish to handle in specific ways for posting, shopping, mailing, crafting etc Base Group The Base Group comes default with the TSM Addon and cannot be removed. It contains all i...

The root cause of the issue that causes TSM to lag when running a scan in Burning Crusade Classic is on Blizzard's side, unfortunately. We recommend making use of the TSM Desktop Application for pricing data instead. Related Article: How do I set up the TSM Desktop Application?...

With a free TradeSkillMaster account, the number of realms you can add to your account is limited to 10. You can add up to 50 realms with a TradeSkillMaster Premium subscription....

Info Warehousing Operations allow for managing of inventory and movement of items between a character and the character bank or guild bank. In the Move Quantity Options section, the available settings for moving items  include: Quantity to move. If enabled, defines the number of items to move in or out of the bank via the Bank UI. This setting is di...

By default, TradeSkillMaster Destroy window will show automatically when you have items that match your Destroy criteria in your inventory as soon as you log in. Please note: Soulbound items are not considered by default, unless you enable it. Additionally, the maximum Rarity to be shown is Rare so Epics will not be shown, unless you enable it. Navi...

There could be several reasons why this happens, and the message displayed in your chat window will help diagnose the issue. If you do not see any contextual message in the chat window ensure you have 'Invalid price warnings' enabled in your TSM settings (i.e the option is toggled off): Common reasons that cause 'item/group is invalid': You have no ...

Info Auctioning Operations are unique to TradeSkillMaster and remove the manual decision making on when and how to post items to the Auction House. Setting a Minimum and Maximum price will define a range in which TSM will consider undercutting competition on the Auction House. If there is an auction posted between the Minimum and Maximum price then ...

Accessing the Tooltip Settings can be done by clicking the TSM minimap icon or typing /tsm. After selecting the Settings tab in the header, the Tooltip Settings is the second option on the left menu . In the  General Options  section,  configuration options are available for the following: Enable TSM tooltips. This option allows for enabling or disa...

Some of the things you can expect to get with TradeSkillMaster Premium include: Peace of mind, with automated remote backups of all your TSM profiles, groups, operations and accounting data. In the event of data loss, or moving to a new system, you won’t have to worry about rebuilding your TSM configuration from the ground up. Check your latest back...

Accessing the Ledger can be done from the core TSM Dashboard, by clicking on the minimap icon or typing /tsm. Delete Info Data in the Ledger is based on collecting mail from your mailbox, such as sales, purchases, cancelled and expired auctions. Inventory In the first section you will have an overview of all items that you own that TSM is aware of. ...

There are several addons that provide pricing data that you may wish to include in your gold-making strategy. Once the addons are installed, an External Price Source will be available in TradeSkillMaster to use in your Custom Strings. Addons currently supported include: Oribos Exchange (Retail) The Oribos Exchange addon is updated twice a week and p...

Info TradeSkillMaster Sniper allows for 'sniping' items from the Auction House as quickly as possible. A Sniper Operations functionality is different for Retail and Classic WoW. In Retail, Sniper Operations are essentially Shopping Operations but the search is repeated until stopped. There is a 30 second delay between each search. In Classic, Sniper...

In TSM 4.10, we introduced a new option to group items by 'Item Level'. This means you can consider the item level of your craft, but ignore the secondary stat combination(s) of the craft, if you want to undercut any other auction or restock a set number of crafts regardless of those secondary stats. It's important to note that you can put both the ...

The TSM Desktop application is currently only designed and tested on Windows. Community members have indicated that using Wine gives good results on various Linux distros. We do not offer support for issues encountered while using the TSM Desktop App on Linux....

Info Operations are instructions applied to a Group that determine how TSM handles items within those groups for posting, shopping, mailing, crafting etc Types of Operations Auctioning Operations allow TSM to post items to the Auction House with pre-determined criteria and conditions, taking away the manual decision making of how and when to post. L...

Great Deals for Classic are only available in-game. If you're a Premium TSM member, you can click the 'Great Deals' button in the Browse tab of the Auction House in-game....

After deleting or transferring a character to another server, TradeSkillMaster won't know that you've done this until you go to your primary Settings page and select the character in the 'Forget Character' drop down menu....

Auctioning Operation Coming soon. Shopping Operation The default Shopping Operation has a default value for Maximum auction price of 'dbmarket', this means that any auctions posted at market value or below will be returned in the Shopping scan results. By default there are no maximum restock values defined, meaning there is no limit on the number of...

This page features video playlists of TSM Addon and Desktop App guides, for beginner and intermediate users. Manthieus - Beginner (English) Samadan - Beginner (English) A beginners guide on how to install TradeSkillMaster Addon and Desktop Application. I show how to register on the Tradeskillmaster website and set up realms. In this video I will tea...

Functions are expressions or terms that can be used as building blocks to combine Price Sources and Value Sources to answer questions or create decision points. They cannot be used in isolation, and don't inherently provide any numerical quantities without being applied to a Price Source, Value Source or a combination thereof. There three kinds of F...

What is an API? An application programming interface or API is a set of clearly defined methods of communication between various software components. For TradeSkillMaster, these methods of communication allow an API user to query the TSM addon for item pricing and other relevant information to use in their addon(s). What does the TSM Addon API offer...

If you're using an Addon Manager, such as Curseforge, WowUp, Ajour etc, you will need to set TradeSkillMaster Addons to be 'Ignored' to prevent any interference or conflict. The TradeSkillMaster Desktop Application will handle updating and management of the TSM Addons. Follow these steps 1) Within your addon manager, right-click on both TradeSkillMa...

Generally, buttons that do not need to be clicked or pressed multiple times cannot be included in the TSM Macro. To configure the TSM Macro, you can head to the Settings, select Macros and include the buttons you prefer. Info If your macro does not appear to be working, ensure that your mouse cursor is not placed on the Auction House frame or on any...

This could be caused for a number of reasons. In the first instance, make sure that you've set up the TSM Desktop Application and TSM addons correctly. This includes selecting the correct WoW directory in the app, picking the correct realm on the TSM website and installing both the core TSM Addon and the TSM AppHelper Addon, then ensuring they're en...

As long as you are running the TSM Desktop Application, you will have access to backups of your TSM data, profile, and settings. Related Article: How do I restore a backup of my addon settings? How do I restore a backup of my addon settings? When you have the TradeSkillMaster Desktop Application installed, it is automatic... When you have the TradeS...

Are you looking to report an in-game Lua error from the TSM addon? TradeSkillMaster errors are specifically handled by the TSM Error Window, it looks like the following screenshot: You can use this in-game TSM Error Window to report issues directly to the TSM team, which will be submitted via the TSM Desktop Application. Ensure you fill in the steps...

If you notice that your material price for vendor reagents are incorrect or missing, it is usually related to the TSM item cache being rebuilt. Related article: Why does TSM rebuild the item cache so often? By default any item will reference the vendorbuy price when it is available. Once the item cache is rebuilt, you will need to visit the vendor t...

Custom Strings allow you to highly customize and tightly control your TradeSkillMaster settings. Custom Strings can be categorised in three main ways: Price Sources. These are price-based sources for an item, and will return a positive numerical quantity in gold/silver/copper such as 10g 52s 12c Value Sources. These are value-based sources for an it...

Sometimes the TSM Desktop application install can be corrupted, the easiest way to resolve this cx_freeze error is to uninstall the application, download a fresh installer and then re-install the application. Download the application: https://www.tradeskillmaster.com/app/overview You may also need to use the alternative download link, instead....

You can check our public roadmap on Trello to see if your idea or suggestion has been recorded already, otherwise please join our Discord server and share any information about your request or suggestion in the #discussion channel. Before you go run off and type up that one feature you've always wanted, here's some questions you should address (as a...

We rely entirely on the community to translate TradeSkillMaster into the many other languages which WoW supports. TradeSkillMaster uses the Curseforge's localization system to manage its localizations. Whenever the English phrases are changed, a developer will upload the new phrases to this system and then translators will see the phrase listed and ...

At this time our Desktop Application does not support very high DPI monitors/displays. You can launch the application with the following options as a workaround, while we work towards launching a new app....

Our Desktop Application is not currently 'notarized' with the Apple Store, so OS X will complain about an unrecognized developer when you try to open the TSM Desktop Application. This does not mean the Application is not safe, and you are welcome to verify this by running an independent scan on it with your software of choice. You can follow the ins...

You can create  Custom Sources  which are variables that you define for easier reference and repeated use of a particular Custom String. For example, you may have created a Custom String such as max(dbmarket, dbregionmarketavg) - instead of typing this out every time, you can create a Custom Source for this string and name it 'myprice' or something ...

Items can only be in one group. For more information on grouping, please refer to this article: How do I add items to groups while ignoring stats or item level?...

If you'd like to request a refund, please send an email to admin@tradeskillmaster.com with your TSM Username and PayPal transaction ID. If you'd like to simply cancel your TSM Premium Subscription, you can do so in the 'My Account' section of the TradeSkillMaster website. Please note: Your subscription won't expire until the end of your subscription...

The timestamp in your Accounting or Ledger data that is exported from the TSM desktop application is in Unix time, or Epoch time. You can read more about that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time You can follow the steps here to convert the timestamp to one that is readable: https://www.automateexcel.com/formulas/convert-time-to-unix-times/...

General Issues Since the pre-patch of Wrath of the Lich King Classic the Auction House is very slow on popular servers. Coupled with the new throttles introduced by Blizzard for addons, you may experience delays or errors while searching for items, during shopping or posting scans, and purchasing or cancelling items from the Auction House. You can s...

Some addons such as Altoholic provide inventory data for items that you character, or alts and banks hold. This should not be confused with the information that TradeSkillMaster provides. The following tooltip shows information from: TradeSkillMaster Altoholic  ...