threadcount-community/docs/manual/reference/glossary.md

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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, team, team desk, uniform store, ward, linen room

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 team's issues are charged to.

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

D–G

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

Delivery round — Bags taken out to the teams: pickups signed for on screen, from Deliver on the delivery round on Today, and approved requests signed for at the team desk. See delivery rounds.

Department — What the CSV imports (dept) and the journal's Department column call a team. See 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.

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.

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

Team — The group a person belongs to and is charged to, with its cost centre, under Settings › Places & cost centres.

Team desk — On the team desk on a staff record, letting that person sign in the staff app for request bags the delivery round leaves at their team. See delivery rounds.

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.

Uniform store — Where stock is kept and handed out from, and the people who run it. See your words.

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, ward round, ward desk, linen room — The words the Hospital or healthcare starting point uses for team, delivery round, team desk and uniform store. See your words.

Words — The five words the screens, slips and emails use for a team, teams, the uniform store, the delivery round and the team desk, set under Settings › Facility. See your words.