| Word | Description |
| Buying Transaction | A buying transaction involves a purchase order, product receipt, or payment on account (POA) and represents this activity between the business and supplier. It usually represents inventory movement coming into the business. |
| cash out | The process of reconciling transactions. Usually this is done daily and for sales, buying, and general ledger. |
| Computer Hardware | Computer Hardware are the physical components that make up the machine. This includes such things as monitors, computer tower, mouse, keyboard, disk drives, and even computer chips. This differs from ‘software’, which is can be used but not physically touched. |
| Cost Center | A warehouse location or business department (such as Sales), for accounting entries to be tied to for sales and/or costing results. In Solid Route Accounting - Enterprise Edition, a cost center that is associated with a mobile computer is also and inventory location. |
| delivery confirmation | An option available in Mobile Unit Records that allows Customer Orders to be assigned to a route sales person's handheld computer, so that they can finalize a Customer Order as an Invoice at the time of product delivery. |
| LAN | Local Area Network. Typically all of the computers that are networked together and are accessible from within your office. |
| NAS | Network Attached Storage - these are usually a group of hard drives that are accessible via the LAN. |
| Re-index | To recreate the indexes that supports the rapid finding of information. |
| Sales Transaction | A sales transaction involves a sale, return, customer order, work order, or received on account (ROA) and represents this activity between the business and customer. It usually represents inventory movement. |
| soft reset | This describes the process of manually restarting the handheld computer, which is often necessary if the handheld computer becomes unresponsive. This term is often used when speaking of handheld computers with a Palm Operating System (O/S), but may also be referred to as a ‘Warm Boot’ or a ‘Soft Boot’. |
| Stock Transfer | A stock transfer transaction represents internal movement of product. There can be 2 types, stock orders and stock transfers. It represents inventory movement internally between warehouses and is conducted as to quantity and not price. |