So, going on the research gleaned from the last journal I posted here, nanuk and I have decided to work together to bring the furry community a web-app that will act as a commission/art transaction service. Basically, a website that helps both artists and art buyers find, buy, sell, auction and trade art and art-related services (like art-slaving and such).

Commissions always seem like a pain, people having to fumble around and manage pricing, slots, payments, queues, etc. It's all been very manual in nature, up until now. While there's nothing inherently WRONG with manually dealing with commissions, it isn't very smooth, reliable or efficient. What if an artist could have invoice ready thanks to preset templates? What if a buyer could search through artists based on filters like current prices, current slots open, etc? There are so many ways Nanuk and I knew we could improve the way furries buy and sell commissions, so we decided to make a change.

So how about a commission management system? Something that handles the hard, tedious tasks of commission management for both the artist and the buyer. Something that looks and feels nice, and just flows. Best of all: it's oriented toward the furry community and its interests. This is our concept, and something web both think will be fun to bring to light.

So I have two questions:

What would you like to see in a commission management system, from the perspective of both an artist and a client?

Our current working name is "CommissionFur", but we're also considering "CommissionShark", as I thought having a shark for a mascot would be cool. What do you think of that names? Good? Bad? Suggestions?