Legal Entity
The company itself - the registered business that employs people, pays them and appears on the payslip.
Business Unit
The division of the company an employee works in, used to group people and to report on them separately.
Department
The function an employee works in - Finance, Human Resource, Production - and who is answerable for it.
Organizational Structure
The company's own settings for this module - which fields are compulsory, which are hidden, and what every new record starts with.
Business Area Dimension
The mapping that says which business unit in which company belongs to which business area.
Business Area
A reporting area the company's costs and headcount are grouped under, above the business unit.
Functional Area Dimension
The mapping that says which department in which company belongs to which functional area.
Functional Area
A reporting area that groups departments, so several departments can be seen together under one heading.
Country
The list of countries addresses and nationalities are picked from, with the dialling code and the currency of each.
Region
The group of countries a country belongs to, such as South Asia or the Gulf.
State
The provinces of a country, which an address names when the country requires one.
City
The cities an address picks from, each belonging to a province and a country.
Time Template
A set of clock times for the seven days of the week, and the rules that decide whether a punch is late, early, half a day or absent.
Calendar
The working year - which times apply over which dates, how far back attendance may be corrected, and the two attendance allowances, paid whole or on criteria slabs.
Calender Date Template
A dated list of working times for a calendar, entered as a run of date ranges in order.
Public Holiday
The gazetted holidays for a calendar year, which attendance reports as the holiday name and payroll pays without a punch.
Approval
The approval chain for a screen - who signs, in what order, how much each signature is worth, and what happens to a document that is waiting.
Parameter Profile
A named set of field defaults and field rules given to a group of users, so each role sees a screen set up its own way.
Cost Key
A short list of cost keys used by the manufacturing side of the product.
Cost Object Group
A set of cost objects gathered together, each with its own cost, so they can be applied as one.
Cost Object
A single thing that costs money - a machine, a labour rate, an overhead - with its kind and its account.
Reason
The list of reasons a user can pick when a screen asks why, and the screens each reason is offered on.
Status
A list of user defined statuses and the screens each one is meant for.
Unit
The units of measure the shared setup module keeps, such as kilogram, metre and piece.
Terms and Conditions
Reusable blocks of printed wording that documents put above and below their content.
Agreement Configuration
Switches the digital agreement panel on for a screen and says which template that screen produces.
Agreement Template
The letter an agreement prints, the details it asks for, and the people who must sign it.
Announcement
The banners staff see when they sign in, with a title, a picture and a date they stop showing.
Notification Rule
Says when a screen should send a notification, to whom, and which wording to use.
Message Notification
The wording of a notification, per language, with merge fields that fill in the record detail.
Events
A personal diary entry with a date, a time, a colour and an icon.
Task
A piece of work with an owner, a due date and a status, broken into subtasks if it needs them.
Create Activity
A call or a meeting given to a named person, who is told about it by notification and email.
Responsible
The named people other screens can be handed to, each limited to the screens they appear on.
Responsibility Central
The desks and functions a record can be handed to, rather than a named person.
Certification Authority
The bodies that issue the company certifications, such as a standards institute or a certifying agency.
Certification Group (company)
The kinds of certificate the company itself can hold, each picked on the certification record.
Certification (company)
The certificates a company, a vendor or a customer holds, with their numbers and expiry dates.
Registration Authority
The bodies that issue the registration numbers a company quotes, such as the tax authority.
Registration Group
The kinds of registration number a party can hold, and the rules each kind is held to.
Registration
The registration numbers a party actually holds, held to the rules its group sets.