The vocabulary, without the hand-waving.

An append-only record of every action taken on the floor — each scan, sale, count and adjustment, in order. Because entries are only ever added and never overwritten, the current stock position is a computed view rather than a stored number, which is what makes a complete audit trail possible.

See alsoEventProjectionAudit trail

Counting a subset of inventory on a rolling schedule instead of closing the store for a full physical stocktake. Enovve runs cycle counts during trading hours and reconciles each zone against the catalogue as the associate walks it.

See alsoVarianceStocktake

Ultra-high-frequency radio-frequency identification. A reader energises passive tags at a distance and reads many at once, so a rail of garments can be counted in seconds rather than item by item. Enovve reads UHF RFID and 1D/2D barcodes from the same trigger.

See alsoEPCBarcode

Electronic Product Code — the unique identifier written to an RFID tag. Unlike a barcode, which identifies a product, an EPC identifies a specific physical unit, which is what allows unit-level traceability.

See alsoUHF RFID

The stock level at which a line should be reordered to avoid running out before replenishment arrives. Enovve raises an alert when a line crosses it and shows the recent sales velocity that justifies the threshold.

See alsoLow stockVelocity

Inventory that the books say exists but the floor does not have — theft, damage, mis-scans or administrative error. A per-write audit trail turns a shrinkage investigation from archaeology into a query.

See alsoVarianceAudit trail

The gap between counted quantity and expected quantity for a line. Enovve surfaces variance as it happens during a count rather than at the end of a quarter.

See alsoCycle countShrinkage

A design where the application works fully without a network connection and reconciles when it reconnects. Writes go to a durable local queue and are acknowledged to the user immediately, so a dead spot in the stockroom never blocks work.

See alsoIdempotency keyReconciliation

A unique identifier attached to an event so that replaying it — after a reconnect, a retry or a crash — applies it exactly once. This is what stops an offline queue from double-counting when it drains.

See alsoOffline-firstEvent

A read-optimised view computed from the ledger's event stream, such as current stock on hand or revenue for the last 30 days. Because the dashboard, the assistant and the API all read the same projection, they cannot report different numbers.

See alsoOperational ledger

The authoritative store for a class of data. Enovve is deliberately not the system of record for finance — the customer's ERP remains that. Enovve is the system of engagement the floor actually touches, and it writes back.

See alsoERPIntegration

A purpose-built mobile computer rated for drops, dust and long shifts, typically with a pistol grip, a hot-swappable battery and an integrated scan engine. The distinction that matters commercially is the hot swap: the shift continues while the battery changes.

See alsoHot-swappable batteryPistol grip

Provisioning where a device configures itself to corporate policy on first boot, with no manual setup. It is what makes handing 200 handhelds to 20 stores a logistics exercise rather than an IT project.

See alsoDevice management

The average value of a completed, paid transaction over a period. Watching ticket and order count separately tells you whether revenue moved because more people bought or because each person bought more.

See alsoRevenuePaid orders