Glossary

The words this help uses in a precise sense, each with the chapter that explains it.

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Active channel

The channel you are working on at any moment, whether Telegram or WhatsApp: the template, the preview, the queue and the automatic publishing you see on screen are taken from it. You choose it in the Active channel block of the side menu, which appears as soon as you add a second channel. There are more details in Channels.

Active organization

The organization you are working on when you reach more than one: your own or that of whoever invited you. Everything you see —channels, templates, queue and automatic publishing— belongs to it. It is chosen in the Active organization block of the side menu, which appears as soon as you reach a second one. Collaborators and permissions explains it.

Affiliate rule

The way to put your code in a store's link without using its API: a text before the link, another after it, or both, with one rule per store. When a rule covers the store, the link that is published comes from it, in Amazon and AliExpress too. Stores and affiliation explains it.

Affiliate tag and tracking ID

Your affiliate code on Amazon and AliExpress: in Amazon Associates you use the affiliate tag (Partner Tag), like your-tag-21, and in AliExpress Affiliate the tracking ID (Tracking ID), normally default. The Amazon tag has its own card and is all you need to get paid, without needing the Amazon API; the AliExpress tracking ID is saved along with its credentials. You will find more details in Amazon and AliExpress, and to set up channel-specific codes, see A different code per channel.

Bot and control bot

The Telegram bot publishes your offers to the Telegram channels: you create it in @BotFather, the organization's owner saves its token in Settings › Connections and you add it as an administrator of each channel. On WhatsApp channels the WhatsApp number does the job. There are more details in Channels.

Credit

The unit used to pay for reading a product page when it is not read with your own store credentials. The ones included in your plan reset every month and are spent first; the bought balance does not expire. What a credit is spent on and what it is not is explained in Stores and affiliation; the two kinds, in Subscription and credits.

Message template and image template

The message template decides how each offer's text is written —which data goes in, in what order and in what format— and is changed in the Template editor. The image template designs the composite image, the product photo over your background with the prices on top, and is changed in the Image template editor; the free plan publishes the original photo. Each channel has one of each.

Organization and account

The organization is what is shared —its name, its channels, the bot, the store credentials, the plan and the people who work in it—; yours is created with your account, and you can also work in those of whoever invites you. The account is only your access —your user, your email, your password, your linked accounts and your language—: it is in My account and goes with you into all of them. Access and account and Collaborators and permissions explain them.

Owner, manager and operator

The owner created the organization and is the only one with permission to configure the bot, the WhatsApp number, the stores' credentials, the channels, the team and the plan. The people they invite can come in at two levels of access: the manager reaches the application and the shared settings (Channels, Message, Affiliates and Region); the operator only sees the application, Subscription and My account. There are all the details in Collaborators and permissions.

Publication

Each arrival of a message in a channel, which is what the plan's monthly limit counts: a message sent to three channels is three publications, wherever it comes from. The month's publications explains it.

Queue

The list of offers ready to go out to the channel in the order they came in, respecting the sending frequency and the resting hours you have set. From the Solo plan on they are published automatically; on the free plan they stay saved and you send them with Publish now. There are more details in Publication queue.

Retail price

The price the product was sold at before the discount (in Spain, the PVP). It is optional, cannot be lower than the current price and, when it is there, the factory template shows the price struck through and the discount. Create offer explains it.

Search profile

What automatic publishing searches for on your behalf: a store, a text or a category, filters such as price or discount, excluded words and the channels it publishes to. It belongs to the organization and can feed several channels, each with its own progress. Automatic publishing explains it.

WhatsApp channel

The WhatsApp channel the organization's WhatsApp number publishes to, which must be listed as an administrator. You add it from Settings › Channels or through the setup assistant. It takes up a channel slot just like a Telegram one and has its own template, queue and automatic publishing. There are more details in WhatsApp channels.

WhatsApp number

The phone number the organization links once and publishes with to its WhatsApp channels, just as the bot does on Telegram. We recommend using one separate from your main one. There is only one number per organization, and only the owner can link or unlink it from Settings › Connections. There are more details in WhatsApp.

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