Free, in game
The AHledger addon
Auction house prices in your tooltips, how fast each item sells, the deals in your latest scan, crafting margins, a ledger bar with your bag value and session gold, and a scanner that feeds the shared price database. It reads listings through the official in-game API and automates nothing. Free, nothing paywalled, no account needed.
Six places
What it does in game
In every item tooltip
- The median price on your auction house, the lowest buyout, the 7 day change and how many are listed.
- How fast it sells there: sells fast, sells steadily, sells slowly or barely sells, with about how many sell a day and how soon the current listings would clear.
- The vendor price, the disenchant value, and how many you own across bags and bank with what they are worth.
- Prefer less? A compact mode shows one line and a verdict: Auction it, or Vendor it.
At the auction house
- A price column in the browse results: the median and how far each listing sits under or over it.
- A posting panel when you sell: median, lowest, 30 day range, how fast it sells, and how long what you carry would take to sell at that pace, with buttons that fill the price. Posting stays your click.
- A scan button and automatic scans, at most one every 15 minutes, which is the limit the server sets.
In the window (/ahl)
- Deals: every item in your latest scan listed well under its 30 day median, with a Sold/day column and a box to keep only items that sell at least one a day.
- Crafting: every recipe you know ranked by margin at current prices, with Sold/day and Profit/day, and a shopping list for N crafts.
- Bags: everything you carry with its value, whether to auction or vendor it, and how fast it sells.
- Watchlist: tracked items with four alert kinds (below a price, above a price, a percent under the 30 day median, fewer than N listed).
On the ledger bar
- A small movable strip: your bag value at the median and how much of it sells fast, gold this session with the hourly rate, watchlist alerts, deals in your latest scan and how many of them sell, and a ticker that walks your watchlist.
- Each number opens its tab. /ahl bar lock keeps it in place; /ahl bar hides it.
Around the world
- Quest rewards: each choice shows what it is worth and the best is marked.
- Vendors: items that sell for well over their vendor price show the profit per purchase.
- Mailbox: one chat line on what the auction house sent, sold, expired or outbid. Nothing is opened or taken.
- After a scan: one line with the deals it found and the best three.
Links to ahledger.com, when you want them
- Type /ahl link and shift-click an item for its page on the site, or ctrl+right-click a row in the Deals, Crafting, Bags or Watchlist tab. The game cannot open web pages, so the address appears selected, ready to copy.
- One quiet line at the foot of the Deals, Crafting and Watchlist tabs points to the full page for your auction house, and once a week a line after a scan names the new market report.
- Nothing goes in tooltips or the bar, and the option Links to ahledger.com turns the reminders off.
Every feature has its own switch in the options, and the minimap button opens the window.
Four words
How fast it sells
A low price is only half the answer; the other half is whether anyone buys. The addon shows how fast an item sells on your auction house, from an estimate ahledger.com makes from consecutive scans by players over the last week, in four words:
- Sells fast
- the current listings would clear in under a day
- Sells steadily
- within 3 days
- Sells slowly
- within 14 days
- Barely sells
- longer than that, or none sold this week
In game the tooltip reads, for example, "Sells steadily on the AH: ~200 sold a day, listings clear in ~2 days". It is an estimate that leans low: a cancelled listing can look like a sale, so anything that looks like a relisting is left out. Type /ahl pace in game, or read how it is estimated.
Five steps
Install
- Install AHledger through the CurseForge app (or from Wago), or unzip it into
World of Warcraft/_classic_/Interface/AddOns. The download carries a snapshot of every Forever market's prices, so tooltips work from your first login. - Log in and open the auction house. The addon scans automatically the first time you open it, and again at most every 15 minutes after that.
- Type
/ahl statusto see your market, how old its prices are, and how many scans are stored. - Run AHledger sync on your desktop. It watches the addon's saved file, uploads each new scan you have chosen to contribute, and writes fresh price tables into the addon every 30 minutes, so tooltips, sales speed and crafting margins stay current. No sync app? Every market page has an import string to paste in game with
/ahl import. - Play. With "Contribute item sources" on, the addon notes which creature, chest, vendor or quest gave which item and the zone, sync sends the table with your scans, and item pages here fill in "dropped by", "sold by" and "quest reward from" for everyone. Source ids, names, zones, items and prices only; nothing about your character.
In chat
Slash commands
/ahl | the window: watchlist, deals, crafting, bags, options |
|---|---|
/ahl deals, bags, craft, options | open a tab directly |
/ahl scan | a full scan (auction house open) |
/ahl pace | what the sales speeds mean and how they are estimated |
/ahl link [item] | the item page on ahledger.com, ready to copy |
/ahl status | version, market, price table age, stored scans, what your scans added |
/ahl watch add, remove, alert | manage the watchlist, for example /ahl watch alert [item] 12g 50s |
/ahl import | paste a price table from a market page on the site |
/ahl bar, bar lock, unlock, reset | show, hide, pin or reset the ledger bar |
/ahl set <option> on|off | any option by name, for example /ahl set siteLinks off |
Privacy
What leaves your machine
A scan is a list of item ids, quantities, buyout, and bid prices for one market, with the time it was taken. It carries no character names, no seller names, and no account data. Scans from several players inside the same hour are merged, so the more people run the addon, the fresher every item page gets. The About page explains where every number on the site comes from.
The addon never buys, sells, cancels, or posts anything. It only reads what the auction house shows you, which is what Blizzard's addon policy allows. Addons cannot reach the internet, which is why uploads go through AHledger sync, and only while Contribute scans is on.
On your desktop
AHledger sync
The desktop app that connects the addon to ahledger.com. It finds your saved-variables file, uploads new scans in the background, downloads fresh price tables into the addon every 30 minutes, and shows when each market was last updated. For Windows and macOS. Get it from the download page, which also explains why the addon alone cannot do this. The source of sync and of the addon is public on GitHub, so you can read what both do.
Questions
Something not scanning, or a realm not mapped to its market? Use the contact form with your /ahl status line.
See it in use
Every market page shows when it was last scanned and by which source, and the contributors page ranks the players whose scans cover the most market hours, this week and all time.
Common questions
- What does the AHledger addon do in game?
- Prices in every item tooltip with how fast the item sells on your auction house and an Auction it or Vendor it verdict; a movable ledger bar with your bag value at median, gold this session, watchlist alerts, deals in your latest scan and a watchlist ticker; deals, crafting margins with sales per day, and a bag appraisal in its window; the best quest reward marked; vendor items worth flipping marked; a mailbox summary of auction sales; a watchlist with four alert kinds; a posting helper and a median column at the auction house; and the scanner.
- What does Sells fast mean in the AHledger tooltip?
- That the listings now on your auction house would clear in under a day at the rate it sells. The four speeds are sells fast, sells steadily (within 3 days), sells slowly (within 14 days) and barely sells. AHledger estimates units sold a day from consecutive scans by players over the last week; it leans low. /ahl pace explains it in game.
- How do I open an item page on ahledger.com from the game?
- Type /ahl link and shift-click the item, or ctrl+right-click it in the Deals, Crafting, Bags or Watchlist tab. The game cannot open web pages, so the address appears selected in a small box; press Ctrl+C to copy it and paste it in your browser.
- How does scanning work?
- Open the auction house and the addon asks the server for the full listing once, at most every fifteen minutes, which is the limit the server sets. The listing is packed and saved on your machine; the game writes it to disk at logout or /reload, and sync uploads it from there. The scan button shows where the scan is and counts down the allowance.
- Is the addon allowed?
- It uses only the API Blizzard gives addons, the same auction house call Auctionator and TSM use, and it automates nothing: no buying, bidding, posting or cancelling without your click. It reads no memory and makes no network calls, since addons cannot.
- Which game versions does it support?
- World of Warcraft: Forever (1.60.1) and Classic Era (1.15.9). On the Forever client, which does not always read saved variables back, the addon mirrors your options and watchlist so they survive a reload; /ahl status says which happened.
- Can I use it without contributing?
- Yes. Turn off Contribute scans in the options and sync uploads nothing; the addon keeps pricing from the table you paste in game or that sync downloads. Everything on the site stays free either way.