Ka-ching!

I have my email client set up so that it makes a cash register ‘ka-ching!’ noise every time I make a sale. I found this a real morale booster in the early days of Perfect Table Plan. Even now, several years later and with considerably higher sales volumes, I still haven’t grown tired of it. I particularly enjoy hearing ‘ka-ching!’s coming from my laptop while I am not working – it is wonderful to be able to earn money while drinking a glass of wine in front of the television.

If you are running Mozilla Thunderbird you can set this up quite easily with a message filter and the Mailbox Alert add-on:

Install the Mailbox Alert add-on.
Create a Thunderbird message filter to send emails denoting incoming sales to a specific folder (‘Tools’>’Message filters…’).
Set the Mailbox Alert add-on to play an appropriate sound whenever a new email arrives in this folder (select this folder, then select ‘Tools’>’Mailbox Alert Preferences’).

You shouldn’t have too much problem finding an appropriate .wav file to play. I use C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\MEDIA\CASHREG.WAV.You can also find some online here.

Thank you to whoever wrote Mailbox Alert and to Nick Hebb of FlowBreeze Flowchart software for pointing me at it originally.

9 Responses to “Ka-ching!”

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1 Smart Company Software 27 December 2010 at 1:06 pm

I like your style Andy!
2 softwarecandy 27 December 2010 at 2:14 pm

Nice! We happen to use Thunderbird, too. This is a great tip. :)
3 Mindaugas 27 December 2010 at 2:14 pm

I did it thanks to you! Great motivator!
4 Kova 27 December 2010 at 4:44 pm

Really nice!
So you leave thunberbird open 24/7? That may be too distracting for me personally.
5 Phil Newton 28 December 2010 at 5:12 pm

I have the something similar set up in Outlook, and it never gets old. I seem to remember that the founder of Amazon had something similar when it started, but had to remove it eventually as it rang constantly.
6 Christopher Bruno 30 December 2010 at 6:00 am

What are you going to do once youre selling one every other minute? That ka-ching may distract your development time!
- 7 Andy Brice 30 December 2010 at 11:01 am
  
  That would be a nice problem to have. ;0)
8 Roman 7 January 2011 at 11:43 am

Here is set of sale sounds exactly for mISV sales :)
http://icons4swrus.com/SaleSounds-v-1.0r.zip
9 Tom 23 February 2011 at 12:10 am

I have done the same thing! Except I’ve set it up on my Android phone using Gmail Label Notifier. Like you say, it’s a huge morale booster, and I get this even when I’m out and about. It means that I’m raring to get stuck in once I get home!