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Glossary

The words Ordryx uses, in plain English. Some screens use your shop's own word for making (Build, Make or Bake); this page says "make".

Stock

Word	What it means
Item	Anything you keep count of: a part, a material, or a product you sell. Each item has a name and a code.
Code	An item's short name or SKU, such as a part number. Ordryx numbers an item for you if you leave it blank.
Unit	What an item is counted in: each, metres, grams, square feet. Some items can be shown in a bigger unit, such as kg for g.
Location	A place where stock is kept: a stock room, a workshop, a market tote. Ordryx counts each item separately at each location.
Main location	The location Ordryx uses when nothing else is chosen.
Bin	Where an item sits inside a location, such as shelf "A-3". It helps people find it and orders a pick list.
On hand	How many of an item you have now, at one location or at all of them.
On order	How many are on purchase orders and not received yet.
Container	One spool, reel or drum of an item that is kept in containers. The item's stock is what is left in all its containers.
Spool	A container of 3D printer filament. Ordryx follows each spool and what each print used from it.
Product and variant	A product groups items that differ only by an option, such as size or colour. Each variant is an ordinary item.
Starting count	The first stock of a new item, entered when it is added or imported.
Count	Checking what is really on the shelf and recording it. Ordryx works out the difference.
History	The list of every change to an item's stock: who, when, how many and why.
Alert level	The number below which an item shows as Low. On the item it is called Alert at. It can be Auto (Ordryx moves it as use changes) or Fixed.
Keep on hand	A number to fill up to. The Plan makes up to it, and Reorder orders up to it.
Unit cost	What one unit of an item costs you.

Making

Word	What it means
Recipe	What goes into a made item: its parts and how many of each.
Batch	How many one recipe makes at a time. A recipe can make more than one per batch.
Sub-assembly	A part you make from other parts, used in another item's recipe.
Can make	How many of an item you could make from the parts you have now.
Job	A piece of work made in your own shop, with a number like J-0012. Its parts are taken when it starts; good units go into stock after the check.
Check	Counting how many finished units passed before they go into stock. Also called QC.
Planner	Suggests what to make next, from your orders and your stock.
Cost to make	What one made item costs. It follows what each time you make it, or each work order, costs.

Buying

Word	What it means
Supplier	A business you buy from.
PO	A purchase order: what you ordered from a supplier, with a number like PO-0031.
Receive	Putting what arrived on a PO into stock.
Landed cost	What an item really cost once its share of shipping and fees is added.
Lead time	How long it takes to get more of an item: a supplier's delivery time, or how long you take to make it.
Delivery time	How long a supplier takes from order to arrival. Ordryx learns it from your real POs.
Safety margin	Extra days of stock kept on top of the lead time, in case a delivery is slow or a week is busy.
Reorder	Purchasing's list of what runs out before a new order would arrive.

Contractors

Word	What it means
Contractor	Someone outside your shop who makes things for you.
Work order	Work sent to a contractor, with a number like WO-0047. Each line on it is a batch.
Receipt	A signed record of what a contractor was paid for.
Portal	The contractor's own small part of Ordryx, where they see their work, ask for more and keep their details.

Selling and shipping

Word	What it means
Order	A sale: from a store, typed in by hand, or rung up at the counter.
Channel	A place orders come from, such as a Shopify store, a WooCommerce store or orders you type in. Listed under Sales › Sales channels.
Store	An online shop connected to Ordryx, such as Shopify or WooCommerce.
Listing	A product or variant in your store. Linking a listing to an item tells Ordryx which stock it sells.
First sync	The first time Ordryx reads a connected store. Stock follows that store from then on.
To ship	Orders waiting to be sent. Also the name of Shipping's first page.
Label	A shipping label bought through Ordryx from a carrier, with its tracking number.
Packing slip	A paper that goes in the box, listing what is in it.
Pick list	A list of what to take from the shelves for a batch of labels, walked in bin order.
Till	A cash drawer at the counter. You open it, count it and close it in POS › Till.
POS	Point of sale: selling at the counter.

People and the shop

Word	What it means
Owner	A person who can do everything, including adding people, backups and where the shop's data goes. A shop can have more than one.
Role	A set of things a person may see and do. The standard roles are Manager, Staff and Receiving only.
Sees costs	Whether a person's role shows money from costs: unit costs, stock value, purchase prices.
Two-step sign-in	Signing in with your password and a 6-digit code from an authenticator app on your phone.
Recovery codes	One-time codes that let you in if you lose your phone.
Passkey	A way to sign in with your fingerprint, face or device PIN instead of typing a password.
Module	A part of Ordryx, such as Inventory, Sales or Shipping.
Switched on, switched off	Whether a module is in use. Switching one off hides it; nothing is deleted.
Setup code	A one-time code that proves a new shop is yours, used once at the first sign-in.
Sample shop	A small made-up leather goods shop you can load into an empty Ordryx to look around.
Ordryx account	Your account with Ordryx, for your plan and your shops. It has its own sign-in, separate from each shop's.
Hosted shop	A shop Ordryx runs for you. You open it in a browser.
Link	The connection between a shop you run yourself and your Ordryx account.
Backup	A copy of your whole shop, made every night.
Off-site copy	A sealed copy of a backup kept away from your shop's server, opened only with your passphrase.
Activity	The record of who changed what, and when.