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Glossary	reference	2	The words ThreadCount's screens use, in alphabetical order, each with a line of meaning and the page that explains it.	Anyone	glossary, terms, definitions, words, meaning, vocabulary, what does it mean, audit log, to order, override

A–C

Admin — The coordinator role that manages settings, the register, the catalogue, prices and suppliers.

Audit log — Every change in the facility, newest first, with who made it, under Settings › Data & audit log. Only an Admin can read it. See export and backup.

Back Order — An order status for stock the supplier has not yet sent. See receiving.

Barcode — The code bound to one size of one garment, so a scan finds that size. See barcodes.

Casual — The FTE for someone with no fixed fraction. See groups and routes.

Catalogue — The garments stocked, each with sizes, SKU, supplier, cost, type and groups.

Ceiling — The most sets anyone may hold at once, 6 unless changed at Most anyone holds under Settings › Issuing rules, the same for every group. See the entitlement rule.

Collection code — The 4-digit code on a request's bag waiting at the counter. See requests from staff.

Cost centre — The finance code a department's issues are charged to.

Cost centre override — A cost centre on one person's record, used instead of their department's.

D–G

Damage report — A garment reported damaged, listed under Requests › Damage until it is handed in.

Delivery round — Bags taken to wards and signed for on screen, from Deliver on the round on Today. See delivery rounds.

Department — A ward or unit, with its cost centre, under Settings › Places & cost centres.

Draft — An order not yet placed with the supplier, shown under its supplier in To order on Orders. See the To order list.

Either — The uniform style offered both cuts.

FTE — A person's combined employment fraction, such as 0.8, or Casual. See groups and routes.

FTE table — The route where FTE proposes the starting kit, from 5 sets at 1.0 down to 1 at 0.1.

Grace — The 14 days after a trial or paid period ends, when changes are still accepted. See plan and billing.

Grandfathered — A facility created before plans existed, hosted free with everything.

Group — A staff group, such as Registered Nurse. Each is on one route, and garments are tagged for the groups that wear them.

H–M

Hand-in — Garments given back, in Hand in mode on Counter: good ones join the pre-loved pool, rags are counted for disposal. See exchanges and returns.

Issuer — The coordinator role that issues stock, files stock counts and receives deliveries, and cannot edit a price or delete a past issue.

Items (FY) — What someone has drawn since 1 July, a column under Reports › People. It feeds the reports and never limits the counter.

Kit check — A round, started by an Admin under Requests › Kit check & waitlist, asking staff in the staff app to confirm what they hold. See the staff app.

Manager — The person, recorded by staff number, who approves someone's requests and signs their order form.

Manager approval — The route with no starting kit, where the manager approves each set.

N–R

Needs an approver — A request nobody has been asked to decide, listed under that heading on Requests. See requests from staff.

Opening balance — The count a size starts from, set in Adjust quantity or by CSV. See stocktakes.

Override — An issue past the ceiling, outside the person's group or not their uniform style, recorded by ticking Record as an override on Counter. See issue a garment.

Pre-loved — Good handed-in garments, reissued at $0, which count toward the ceiling like new ones. See exchanges and returns.

Rag — A handed-in garment counted for disposal.

Read-only — After grace: reports, exports, printing and the backup still work and nothing is deleted, but most changes are refused. See plan and billing.

Reorder level — The count at or below which a size joins To order on Orders. See reorder levels.

Request — Garments asked for in the staff app, worked through on Today, on the person's record and on Requests. See requests from staff.

Route — How a group's garments are decided: FTE table, Starting kit or Manager approval. See groups and routes.

S

Self-approved — A request approved by someone who is their own manager.

Set — One top and one pair of trousers; the garment's type decides which half it is. See the entitlement rule.

Slip — A printed collection or delivery slip, or a staff app code slip. See slips and signatures.

Starting kit — The route giving sets on the first day, 3 by default, then more as needed.

Stock on hand — The live count of each size on the shelf, under Stock › On hand. See stocktakes.

Stock take — A count of the shelf or the pre-loved pool against the system figure, done on Stock › Count with a Mode of Normal or Blind. See stocktakes.

T–Z

To order — On Orders, for Admins: every size at or below its reorder level, suggested at twice the level less what is on hand and on order, grouped by supplier. See the To order list.

Trial — 30 days for a new hosted facility, no card taken. See plan and billing.

Uniform style — The cut a person is offered, Men's, Women's or Either, plus everything unisex; blank offers every style. See the staff register.

Variance — The difference between a count and the system figure on Stock › Count. See stocktakes.

Waitlist — People waiting for a size not on the shelf, under Requests › Kit check & waitlist; an offer holds it for 48 hours. See the staff app.

Ward desk — On the ward desk on a staff record, letting that person sign for bags a round leaves at their ward. See delivery rounds.

Ward Requests — The old name of Requests, reached from People. See requests from staff.