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Glossary

Term Meaning
Customer Your client - the business whose goods you store and deliver.
Recipient The person or business receiving a delivery.
Supplier A business that sends stock to your warehouse on behalf of a customer.
Order A request to deliver (or collect) items for a customer to a recipient.
Order line One physical item on an order.
Piece (box) One carton of an order line. A three-box bed is one line with three pieces.
Manifest A customer’s notice of stock arriving at your warehouse (also called an ASN).
Live order A cross-dock order: the goods arrive for this order and leave on the next van.
Warehouse order An order fulfilled from stock you already hold.
Hold A stop on an order: it will not be picked, routed or delivered until released.
Route One vehicle’s run for a day, made of stops.
Stop One visit on a route - usually one order’s delivery.
Booking Agreeing a delivery date with the recipient.
Proof of delivery (POD) The record that a delivery happened: time, photos, signature.
Depot One of your sites. Users can be limited to the depots they work at.
Template The wording of an email or text message Tracovy sends.