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Definitions of the terms used across the Solavel docs. Terms match what you see on screen.

Access required — Workspace Home status. The app is in the organization's plan, but it hasn't been granted to you.

Account type (Company / Independent) — The two kinds of invited user. A Company account gets an address on your company domain and is managed by your company. An Independent account uses the person's own email and login; you only control their access inside your organizations. See Account types.

Activation request — A request to turn on a paid plan that the Solavel team activates manually. Statuses run Pending → Under review → Approved → Processing → Completed. It can be withdrawn while open. Most plans now activate directly from Billing → Subscriptions.

Advanced (SolaCount Advanced) — SolaCount plan (USD 129/month, 20 users) that includes SolaProjects Premium and SolaStock Premium. See Billing & subscriptions.

AP (Accounts Payable) — The balance owed to suppliers for posted bills not yet paid. Also the purchases side of SolaCount.

App — One of the products on Solavel: SolaCount (accounting), SolaProjects, SolaStock (inventory), SolaHR, SolaFone (mobile-store sales and repairs), SolaPOS. Coming soon: SolaStore, SolaShip, SolaClear.

App role / Application role — What a person can do inside one app in one organization, for example Accountant (Member) in SolaCount or Warehouse Manager in SolaStock. Separate from the organization role. See Application roles.

AR (Accounts Receivable) — The balance customers owe for posted invoices not yet settled. Also the sales side of SolaCount.

Bill — A purchases document recording money owed to a supplier. Posted bills create AP balances.

Billing schedule — The month-by-month table on Billing showing free offer periods, the current period and upcoming charges.

Bundle / Included — An app that comes with another app's plan at no extra charge, for example SolaProjects Premium with SolaCount Premium. Shown as Included.

Chart of Accounts (COA) — The list of ledger accounts an organization uses, under Accounts → Chart of Accounts in SolaCount.

Cheque book / cheque leaf — A company cheque book under Accounts → Cheque Books, with numbered leaves. See Cheques.

Confirmation dialog — The shared dialog every app shows before an important change. Nothing happens until you confirm.

Customer — Someone your organization sells to. Receives invoices and quotes and can use the Customer Portal.

Customer Portal — Where your customers sign in with an emailed one-tap link to see their invoices, payments, quotes and orders. See Customer Portal overview.

Dark mode — Dark theme available in the portal and every app, toggled from the top bar.

Department Manager — SolaHR role (formerly Unit Manager) managing attendance and leave for assigned departments.

Exchange rate — The dated rate used to convert a foreign-currency document into base currency.

Fiscal year — A 12-month accounting window, configured per organization.

Full access — How Owners appear on Team and Application roles: they can use every app in the organization's plan without app roles.

Invitation — An emailed link, valid for 7 days, to join one or more organizations with chosen roles and apps. See Receiving an invitation.

Invoice — A sales document billing a customer. Posted invoices create AR and, where VAT applies, output VAT. (Solavel's own invoices for your subscription are under Billing → Invoices.)

Journal entry — A direct, balanced debit/credit posting to the ledger.

Ledger — The general ledger; every posted document writes to it.

Lock date — The date on or before which postings and changes are blocked for an organization.

Mini profile — A person's profile page in the portal, visible only to people who share an organization with them. See Team.

Multi-currency — Plan-dependent SolaCount capability for foreign-currency documents, dated rates and FX gains or losses.

Organization — A separate business inside your workspace, with its own ledger, apps, plans, team and billing.

Organization role — Owner, Organization Manager, Member or Viewer in one organization. See Team.

Owner — Organization role with full control, including billing, invitations and every app in the plan.

Payment — Money received from a customer or paid to a supplier, allocated to invoices or bills. A document with allocated payments can't be voided.

Period — An accounting window inside a fiscal year, typically a month.

Plan — A pricing tier for one app in one organization (for example SolaCount Free, Premium, Advanced, Enterprise). It sets features and user limits.

Portal (Solavel portal) — The account area at solavel.com/portal: Workspace Home, organizations, team, billing and your settings.

Posting — Finalizing a document: it writes a journal entry and locks the accounting fields. Undo with Unpost or a reversal.

Promotion (year-end) — 100% discount on paid plans until 1 January 2027 (UTC), excluding Enterprise. Access then ends unless renewed at the regular price.

Quote — A proposed sale with no accounting impact; can be converted to an invoice or sales order.

Recurring — A schedule that creates documents automatically. Plan-dependent.

Relationship Map — SolaCount explorer showing how documents and contacts connect.

Reverse charge — VAT mechanism where the buyer accounts for VAT on certain purchases; SolaCount reports it as both input and output VAT.

Reversal — A contra journal cancelling a posted document without deleting it.

Role guide — Panel beside the invite and Application roles forms explaining what each role can and cannot do.

Scope — The warehouses (SolaStock) or departments and employees (SolaHR) a scoped role may work with, set in that app's Team access page.

Seat — One user's access to one app in one organization. Plans limit seats; Team shows used / limit seats.

Secure link — Single-use, 24-hour sign-in link in customer document emails.

SolaAI / SolaBot — Help assistants. SolaAI is in the SolaCount sidebar (help chat from the docs, plus dashboard briefings from aggregated figures). SolaBot is the floating help assistant in the portal. Neither changes your records. See Solavel AI.

Status not confirmed — The message shown when an action's result is unknown (for example the connection dropped). Check the current status before trying again.

Subscription — The link between an organization and a plan for one app, with a billing cycle. Statuses include Active, Trialing, Past due, Canceling, Cancelled.

Supplier — Someone your organization buys from (formerly "vendor").

Team access — Page inside SolaStock and SolaHR where administrators set each member's scope.

VAT period — The reporting window for VAT returns, independent of accounting periods.

Voucher (CPV / CRV / BPV / BRV) — Filtered views of SolaCount payments: cash/bank payment and receipt vouchers.

Workspace — Your company's space in Solavel: all your organizations, team and apps under one account.

Workspace builder — Permission on a company account that lets them create organizations in your workspace (Create organizations in employee portal controls). See Workspace builder.

Workspace Home — The portal's first page, with a tile for each app. See Application launcher.