Glossary
Retail decision terms, plainly defined.
Definitions for the language Coodra uses around inventory, recommendations, review, confidence, connectors, and security.
Core terms
- Review-first
- Recommendations appear for human review before operational action happens.
- Decision layer
- A layer above existing retail systems that ranks what deserves attention next.
- Signal
- A piece of retail context such as sales velocity, stock, margin, lead time, or review feedback.
- Candidate decision
- A possible action Coodra may recommend after reading available signals.
- Review queue
- The ranked list a human reviews before action happens.
- Confidence
- How much useful context exists behind a recommendation.
- Guided connector
- A connector that is checked with the retailer before routine operational use.
- Tenant
- The retailer account, workspace, or store group a request belongs to.
Retail terms
- Stockout
- A product is unavailable when demand exists.
- Overstock
- More inventory is held than current demand or margin justifies.
- Stock-to-sales ratio
- A measure comparing inventory on hand to sales over a period.
- Reorder point
- The stock level where a retailer should consider ordering more.
- Lead time
- How long it usually takes for a supplier order to arrive.
Security terms
- Short-lived access
- A limited session or token that expires quickly and must be refreshed.
- Tenant isolation
- Keeping one retailer account from seeing or changing another retailer account.
- Rate limiting
- Restricting repeated requests to reduce abuse and noisy failure loops.
- Credential encryption
- Protecting connector tokens before they are stored.