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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

A–C

Activity — The screen listing every change in the facility, newest first, with who made it. Managed by admins.

Admin — The coordinator role that manages settings, the staff register, the catalogue, pricing, suppliers and departments.

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; the FTE table leaves their kit to the manager.

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 under Settings › Issuing rules, the same for every group. See the entitlement rule.

Collection code — The 4-digit code on a bag waiting at the counter, read out at hand-over.

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; the replacement starts when it is handed in.

Delivery round — Requests going out to wards, grouped by ward and signed for on screen.

Department — A ward or unit, with its cost centre.

Draft — An order not yet placed with the supplier. See the 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: 5 sets at 1.0 and 0.9, 4 at 0.8 and 0.7, 3 at 0.6 and 0.5, 2 at 0.4 and 0.3, 1 at 0.2 and 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 for as long as it exists.

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 returned: good ones join the pre-loved pool, rags are counted for disposal. See exchanges and returns.

Issue anyway — The override for an issue past the ceiling, outside the person's group or not their uniform style, noted on the record. See issue a garment.

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

Items (FY) — What someone has drawn since 1 July. It feeds the reports and never limits the counter.

Kit check — A facility-wide round asking people whether their locker matches the record; a shortfall is written off, never charged. 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 — Where a request waits under Requests when nobody is above the manager who raised it.

Opening balance — The count a size starts from before any movement. See stocktakes.

Order list — Under Orders, every size at or below its reorder level, topped up to twice the level less what is on order, grouped by supplier. See the order list.

Pre-loved — Good handed-in garments, reissued free, 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 work and nothing is deleted, but changes are refused except for the plan, your own password and profile, and deleting your account. See plan and billing.

Reorder level — The count at or below which a size joins the order list. See reorder levels.

Request — Garments asked for in the staff app, numbered like R-0001, moving from Awaiting approval to Collected or Delivered. 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 the slip with a staff app code, which works once and expires after 14 days. 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. See stocktakes.

Stock take — A count of the shelf against the system figure, normal or blind. See stocktakes.

T–Z

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 stock take's count and the system figure. See stocktakes.

Waitlist — A queue for a size not on the shelf; joining needs no approval. See the staff app.

Ward desk — A flag 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, the screen where the linen room works through staff requests.