threadcount-community/docs/manual/start/your-words.md

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Your words	start	5	The five words the screens, slips, emails and phone apps use for your teams, your store, your deliveries and the person who signs for them, and how to change them.	Settings › Facility	Admin	words, terms, vocabulary, wording, rename, ward, department, crew, site, team, linen room, uniform room, kit store, stockroom, delivery round, ward round, ward desk, team desk, trade, industry

What the words are

Every organisation that hands out uniform has the same four things, and each calls them something different. ThreadCount keeps them as a setting on the facility rather than writing them into the screens.

Word	What it names	Default
A team	The group a person belongs to and is charged to	team
Teams	More than one of them	teams
Where stock is kept	The room the counter works from	uniform store
A delivery run	Bags taken out to the teams and signed for	delivery round
A team's request desk	The person on a team who signs for what the run brings	team desk

Screen text quoted in this manual uses the defaults. Your screens use your own words in the same places.

Choose a starting point

Sign-up in a browser asks Kind of organisation, and the answer fills in all five words. Leaving it blank, choosing Something else, or signing up from the counter app keeps the defaults. Change them any time afterwards under Settings › Facility, in the Words section.

Starting point offers a set for each kind of organisation:

Starting point	A team	Where stock is kept	A delivery run
Any organisation	team	uniform store	delivery round
Hotel or hospitality	department	uniform room	delivery round
Security	crew	kit store	kit run
Retail	store	stockroom	store run
Cleaning or facilities	site	depot	site run
School or college	department	uniform shop	delivery round
Transport	depot	depot store	depot run
Manufacturing	line	PPE store	line run
Hospital or healthcare	ward	linen room	ward round

Choosing one fills in the five boxes below it. Nothing is saved until you press Save words. Undo puts back the words you had.

Type your own

Edit any box after choosing a starting point. When the five words no longer match a starting point, the select shows Your own words.

1. Write each word as it reads mid-sentence, in lower case: department, not Department. The screens capitalise it where a label starts with it.
2. Give the plural yourself in Teams. People-words do not follow one rule, so ThreadCount does not guess it.
3. Press Save words. The message Saved. Every screen uses these words now. confirms it.

Each word must be filled in and under 40 characters. An empty box is refused with Every word needs filling in — each one appears on screens and slips.

Where they appear

• The coordinator screens, the counter app and the staff app.
• Printed slips and the delivery slip.
• Emails and phone notifications sent to staff.
• Reports and CSV exports, where a column is headed with a word.

Pages shown before anyone signs in, such as the sign-in screen, use the defaults, because they do not yet know which facility they belong to.

The words change only what is displayed. Your records, departments, cost centres and history are untouched, and changing the words back restores every screen exactly.

What is written

Record	Change	Undo
Facility	The five words	Choose a starting point again or type the old words, then Save words
Audit log	One entry under Settings › Data & audit log	None

Only an Admin can change the words. On the public demo they are fixed, because every visitor shares one facility.