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Look up the terms used to configure and operate a DigiTrade storefront.

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Look up the terms used to configure and operate a DigiTrade storefront. Entries are grouped by subject and alphabetized within each group. Product configuration terms describe the named DigiTrade feature; business concepts explain the underlying commercial meaning.

Applications and access points

Term

Definition

Admin Panel

The application for administering a shop's catalog, customers, orders, and operating settings.

App Store

The catalog of mini-apps available to install for a store.

DigiTrade Hub

The workspace for managing platform clients, implementers, tool access, and billing information.

ERP Manager

The workspace for configuring connections, queries, and data mappings between a client's business system and DigiTrade.

Localhost

The developer-only entry among the applications the Hub lists. The Tools page marks one entry as Only for developers and lists a separate Website entry.

Localization

The application for configuring storefront languages and maintaining translated text through constant keys.

Platform Registry

The catalog of platform capabilities, including data sources, events, and contracts.

Site Builder

The application for configuring storefront pages, menus, layout regions, and the index HTML.

Theme Manager

The application for configuring storefront colors, typography, spacing, corners, and shadows.

Tool

A DigiTrade application that the Hub gives access to. The Hub lists each tool on its Tools page with an Open app link.

Website

The Hub's link to the selected client's storefront. This link appears on the Tools page as Website.

The Hub Tools page listing DigiTrade applications, each with an Open app link.

Accounts and access

Term

Definition

Admin

An administrative account managed in the Admin Panel. Admins are listed on the Admins screen of the Admin Panel. It is distinct from a customer's storefront user account.

Agent

A sales representative account managed in the Admin Panel. The agent form has Email and Agent sync key fields.

Billing information

The platform billing account and account email associated with the Hub workspace. It appears on the Billing information screen of the Hub.

Client

The organization whose storefront and application configuration an implementer manages in DigiTrade. A client is distinct from a customer buying through that storefront. Clients are listed on the Clients screen of the Hub.

Customer

The commercial account buying from the shop. Its ordering terms and commercial policies belong to the account, which can have associated customer users. Customers are listed on the Customers screen of the Admin Panel.

Customer user

An individual user account associated with a customer record. The customer identifies the buying account; the customer user identifies a person using it. A customer record has a Customer Users tab.

Implementer

A person assigned access to selected clients and tools to configure their DigiTrade setup. The implementer form has a Permissions group with Clients and Tools fields.

Role

A grouping of responsibilities and permissions assigned to someone. Having a role does not by itself override the rules for a particular action.

Storefront

The customer-facing shop for a DigiTrade client. It is distinct from the applications used to configure and administer it.

Products, catalog, and pricing

Term

Definition

Attribute

A product characteristic configured in the Admin Panel. Its settings govern product-page display, filtering, and whether it is used as a brand.

Availability

Whether a product can be offered in a particular selling context, including the quantity and timing that can be promised. It is not simply a stock count.

Brand

The commercial identity under which products are presented. A product brand is distinct from the colors used to style the storefront.

Catalog

An organized selection of products presented for a selling context or audience. Categories structure that selection; individual products describe what is offered.

Category

A classification that places products within a catalog's hierarchy. It is distinct from a collection used to group products.

Child product

A product associated with a parent product in the Admin Panel's product structure.

Collection

A named grouping of products in the Admin Panel catalog. Its media can be selected from the shop's media library. The collection form has a Select Media control.

Common filter source

A configured source for a storefront filter. Its form has Name and Label fields.

Currency

The monetary unit used for amounts. Its form has Sign and Code fields.

Label

A product marker. Its form has Text Color and Background Color fields. Its settings control product-card display and automatic display by rule.

Media Manager

The Admin Panel's media library, where shop images are uploaded and managed. Features such as collections use those images.

Package type

A packaging configuration managed in the Admin Panel and associated with a product. It describes product configuration, not a package dispatched in a shipment.

Parent product

A product that groups associated child products in the Admin Panel.

Price list

A set of prices applicable to a defined commercial context, such as an audience, currency, or period. Different contexts can use different price lists.

Pricing configuration

The shop's configuration of price sources. Each source is created in a Create Pricing Source form with Mode, Handler, and Source fields.

Product

The item or service being offered. Its business identity remains the same even when external systems use different identifiers for it.

Promotion

An offer that changes commercial terms when its conditions apply. The promotion form has a Special Offer field alongside Start Date and End Date fields.

Property

A named product property configured in the Admin Panel. It can be selected as the basis of a sorting source.

SKU

A stock keeping unit: the identifier used to order, stock, or synchronize a product configuration. A variant describes the configuration; a SKU identifies it.

Sorting source

A configured product-list ordering. Its form has Product property, Label, and Sorting Direction fields.

Special offer

A presentation setting that associates a promotion type with display colors. Its form has Promotion type, Background Color, and Text Color fields. A promotion record references this setting separately from its dates.

Variant

A particular configuration of a product, distinguished by its defining characteristics. It is separate from the SKU used to identify that configuration.

Orders and commercial records

Term

Definition

Audit event

A record of who performed an action or made a decision and what occurred. Its purpose is to retain an attributable history without rewriting the event.

Cart

The products and quantities being considered for purchase before an order is committed. A cart is not an accepted order.

Commercial program

A business arrangement that manages benefits over time, including the rules for granting and measuring them.

Credit profile reference

A link to the credit settings supplied for a commercial account and company. It does not itself work out spendable credit or approve financing.

Fulfillment

The work of meeting an order's demand, which may be organized into separate portions of the order.

Invoice reference

A link to the official customer invoice and the transaction it belongs to. The reference is not a newly issued invoice.

Order

The buyer's and seller's recorded commercial commitment, including its agreed terms and acceptance state. It is distinct from the cart that precedes it.

Payment intent

A record that a payment is intended. It does not show that the payment has been authorized, received, or settled.

Purchase order

The buyer's commitment to purchase from a supplier. It describes the procurement side of the transaction.

Return request

A request to address a delivered purchase through a return, exchange, or other remedy. The request itself does not authorize that remedy.

ERP integration and synchronization

Term

Definition

API endpoint

An application programming interface (API) entry point. In ERP Manager, the endpoint form has Data mapping and Api function fields.

Basic query

An ERP Manager query that supplies data for mapping. Its form has Basic Query Name, Select connection, and Select ERP Entity fields.

Client connection

The ERP Manager configuration identifying a client's ERP system. The Connection tab lists each connection with its ERP, company, and base URL.

Data mapping

A configuration that connects query data to a DigiTrade API model. It describes the relationship between the source data and the platform model.

ERP

The enterprise resource planning system a client connects to DigiTrade through ERP Manager. It supplies business data such as product and customer records.

Outbound endpoint

An ERP Manager configuration used to send data. Its form has Outbound mapping and Outbound function fields.

Outbound mapping

A configuration relating a platform API schema to the payload schema used for outbound data. Its form has Basic api schema and Payload schema fields.

Payload schema

The definition of the data structure sent to an ERP endpoint. Its form has Client connection, Endpoint, Method, and Root type fields.

Service layer query

An ERP Manager query configured with SQL. Its form has SQL Query and Client connection fields, a Decode json option, and a + Add parameter control.

Sync group

A named group of synchronization tasks with a shared schedule and enabled state. Its form has Interval type, Interval value, and Enabled fields.

Sync task

A named task associated with an ERP endpoint inside a sync group. The group supplies the scheduling configuration. A sync group's Sync Tasks tab lists each task with its endpoint, last run, last status, and enabled state.

Storefront content and appearance

Term

Definition

Border radius

The theme value controlling the roundness of corners.

Box shadow

A theme shadow definition used to give an element visual depth. Shadow slots hold separate definitions.

Client language

A language configured for the storefront in Localization. The default language is selected separately from the supported languages. The Client Languages screen has a Supported Languages group and a separate Default language group.

Client page

A storefront page configured in Site Builder. Its form has Path, Menu, and Menu group fields.

Constant key

A named key used to maintain a piece of storefront text in the configured languages. The key identifies the text; translations supply its wording.

Design token

A reusable theme value, such as a color, spacing unit, or shadow, used to give storefront elements a consistent appearance.

Index HTML

The storefront's index HTML configuration in Site Builder. The screen has a Select Media control and a field for an external script tag.

Menu

A named navigation structure used to organize storefront pages.

Menu group

A grouping within a menu. It can be assigned to a client page. A menu has a Groups tab.

Page editor

The Site Builder workspace for arranging the content of a client page. A client page has a Page Editor tab.

Palette

The theme's set of color values, grouped by their roles in the storefront.

Spacing

The theme's base spacing value used to size gaps between storefront elements.

Template

A reusable configuration bundle. ERP Manager, Site Builder, and Theme Manager provide templates for their respective configurations.

Top bar

A named storefront layout region managed in Site Builder, such as a header or footer.

Typography

The theme's text styling, including its size scale and font settings.

Shop operations

Term

Definition

Automation

A configuration that makes the platform react whenever its chosen trigger fires. The Automations screen has Name, Trigger, and Enabled fields.

Dashboard

The Admin Panel overview of shop activity, including sales, orders, customer activity, and bestselling products.

Document view

A named configuration for displaying a data model, including its column definitions.

Logs

The Admin Panel records used to inspect synchronization activity and errors. The Logs screen has Sync and Errors tabs.

Notification provider

A configured delivery provider for notifications. The notification providers screen has Capability and Enabled fields.

Operating environment

A separately managed context for running and configuring the platform. Configuration and releases belong to their intended environment.

Shop configuration

The Admin Panel settings that apply across the shop. The Shop configurations screen groups settings into tabs such as Synchronization, Account, Catalog, and Order.

System update

The Admin Panel feature for starting a platform software update.

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