diff --git a/html/Game/ClientPresence.php b/html/Game/ClientPresence.php
index 80513e6..c4c518b 100644
--- a/html/Game/ClientPresence.php
+++ b/html/Game/ClientPresence.php
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 //the design choice here was to tie in clientpresence with recently played and visits and make it fully server-sided besides the client pings
 
+use Alphaland\Economy\EconomyHelper;
 use Alphaland\Games\Game;
 use Alphaland\Web\WebContextManager;
 
@@ -143,7 +144,7 @@ else if ($action == "connect")
 		$setgamevisit->bindParam(":g", $placeid, PDO::PARAM_INT);
 		$setgamevisit->execute();
 
-		giveCurrency(1, $creatorid);
+		EconomyHelper::GiveAlphabux(1, $creatorid, "Place visit reward, placeid ".$placeid);
 	}
 	// ...
 }
diff --git a/html/Studio/IDE/Publish/uploadnewasset.php b/html/Studio/IDE/Publish/uploadnewasset.php
index d9a2d61..bbbe8cd 100644
--- a/html/Studio/IDE/Publish/uploadnewasset.php
+++ b/html/Studio/IDE/Publish/uploadnewasset.php
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Alphaland 2021
 The purpose of this is to upload SolidModels (Unions) from studio, since studio does not serialize the actual Union
 */
 
+use Alphaland\Assets\Asset;
 use Alphaland\Assets\Render;
 
 $assetTypeName = $_GET['assetTypeName'];
@@ -139,7 +140,7 @@ if ($assetTypeName && $name && $isPublic && $allowComments)
 						{
 							Render::RenderModel($newitem); //if first fail do it again
 						}
-						giveItem($user->id, $newitem);
+						Asset::GiveAsset($newitem, $user->id, $user->id);
 					}
 				}
 			}
diff --git a/html/create/index.php b/html/create/index.php
index 2558005..8af6aac 100644
--- a/html/create/index.php
+++ b/html/create/index.php
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 Alphaland 2021
 */
 
+use Alphaland\Assets\Asset;
 use Alphaland\Web\WebContextManager;
 
 $body = '';
@@ -217,7 +218,7 @@ function uploadCosmetic()
 	$GLOBALS['pdo']->exec("UNLOCK TABLES"); 
 								
 	//give the creator the asset
-	giveItem($GLOBALS['user']->id, $autoincrement);
+	Asset::GiveAsset($autoincrement, $GLOBALS['user']->id, $GLOBALS['user']->id);
 											
 	//upload texture and edit xml template, copy to assets
 	move_uploaded_file($image, $textureUploadDirectory . $texturehash);
diff --git a/html_admin/give-asset.php b/html_admin/give-asset.php
index 7de6967..9cfa413 100644
--- a/html_admin/give-asset.php
+++ b/html_admin/give-asset.php
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 <?php
 
+use Alphaland\Assets\Asset;
 use Alphaland\Web\WebContextManager;
 
 WebContextManager::ForceHttpsCloudflare();
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ if(isset($_POST['submitgiveasset']))
 			}
 			else
 			{
-				if (giveItem($userid, $catalogid))
+				if (Asset::GiveAsset($catalogid, $userid, $user->id))
 				{
 					$alert = "<div class='alert alert-success' role='alert'>Successfully gave user the item</div>";
 				}