| Term | Description | References |
| The Web or Web | The World Wide Web (known as “WWW’, “Web” or “W3”) is the universe of network-accessible information, the embodiment of human knowledge | https://www.w3.org/WWW/https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questions/Web_mechanics |
| API | An acronym for “Application Programming Interface”. It helps the outside world interact with software to trigger a certain action. | What is an API? |
| Web API | Is an API for the Web. In this document, without specifying the details, we understand API and Web API as one. | https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_api_intro.asp |
| URL or Web URL | An acronym for Uniform Resource Locator.It is one of the most important concepts of the Web. | https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questions/Web_mechanics/What_is_a_URL |
| API Endpoint | A specific touchpoint to a software application and represented as a URL. Different applications will have different API Endpoint conventions. An application can have multiple API Endpoints. Each Endpoint usually represents a certain type of resource (Resource) that the application provides. | https://blog.hubspot.com/website/api-endpoint |
| Entity | Entity is a concept in the field of computer science and databases, often used to describe a real-world object, object, or person.
Ex: Product, Warehouse, Order, Customer, Address | |
| Attribute | Anything helps describe an Entity. Attribute should be accompanied by a specific Entity for example:Product AttributeWarehouse AttributeOrder Attribute | |
| Mapping | Within the scope of this document, Mapping is used to describe the correspondence of concepts across two different systems. | |
| Entity Attribute Mapping | Describe the relationship between properties of Entities between systems. This relationship is usually 1:1. | |
| Product | Products are the goods, electronic downloads, services, and gift cards you sell. You add a product by entering product details and uploading a product image. If the product has options, such as size or color, you can add a model to each option combination. | |
| Variant | You add a model to a product that has multiple options, such as size or color. Each option value combination for a product can be a model of that product.For example, suppose that you sell t-shirts with two options: size and color. The size option has three values: small, medium, and large. The color option has two values: blue and green. One particular look from these options is a small, blue t-shirt. | |
| Warehouse | This is a place used to store goods or other items before they are shipped to the place of final consumption. Warehouses are commonly used in business and manufacturing operations to store and manage products or materials. | |
| Inventory Item | An inventory item represents a physical product. It holds basic information about the physical product including the SKU value and whether the product is tracked in stock. | |
| Stock | In the field of warehouse management, stock is understood as the total amount of goods or products that a business or individual owns and stores in its warehouse. | |
