Money: what the HUD prints and what moves it

TESTED the HUD before and after one completed sale, 2026-11-04
IN-GAME $25.00, SHOP LVL 1, 09:00 and $25.99, all read off the HUD
OFFICIAL ONLY no store page prints a starting balance or a price
NEEDS CHECK rent, wages, refunds, and whether a day costs anything at all

The top-right corner of the HUD: a level bar reading SHOP LVL 1, the cash figure $25.99 in green, and the clock reading 14:12 underneath. — **What this shows** the three HUD numbers together — level, cash and clock — which is where every money question in this guide starts. **Captured** 2026-11-04 **Client** web build 2026-11-04 Plate 1

What the HUD prints

Three things sit in the corner, and they are all numbers:

a bar with SHOP LVL 1 beside it — the shop level, with progress towards the next one as the bar's fill;
the cash figure, in green, $25.00 on a fresh save;
the clock, 09:00 on a fresh save, which is before opening.

The game does not print a day number here. Day is on the save card at the title screen, in the form MyMarket / LVL: 1 / DAY: 1, and not on the HUD — that separation is worth knowing if you are looking for it mid-shift.

The one movement we watched

Start to finish, one sale of one item:

Moment	Cash	Clock
fresh save, before opening	`$25.00`	`09:00`
after the first completed checkout	`$25.99`	`14:12`

The sale was a single item with a $0.99 tag, and the till reached $0.00 again once it was paid. So the cash figure went up by exactly the item's price, with nothing taken off for the transaction itself.

That is the whole of what we can prove. It is a small ledger, and it is the reason this page has a table instead of a strategy.

What we have not established

Whether anything costs money. We have not paid rent, wages, restocking or a delivery fee, and we have not seen one printed. If the shop runs a daily cost, it has not reached us yet.
Whether the start is fixed. $25.00 is what a fresh save prints on the default difficulty. A different difficulty is a different fresh save, and we have not compared them.
How fast the clock runs. We know 09:00 at the start and 14:12 after the first sale, but we did not stopwatch either, so the conversion between real minutes and shop hours is unmeasured here.

Every one of those gaps is a capture we can still take. Until then they are marked open, not filled with a guess.

Last checked against the client: 2026-11-04 · client web build 2026-11-04

MONEY

What the HUD prints

The one movement we watched

What we have not established