Glossary
Business terms, screen labels and the code names behind them, in one place.
Terms as CCC uses them. Where a term has a full explanation, the definition here is one line and the link carries the rest.
| Term | Means |
|---|---|
| Aftikker | A single item sold off at a descending price because it is not sellable as new. Sold as a Countdown deal. See classifications |
| Batch | One unit of queued work in the batches table. See the pipeline |
| CID | Commercial id. Identifies a product commercially regardless of a localised SKU |
| CM1 | Gross profit after variable order costs. See contribution margin |
| CM2 | CM1 after variable marketing costs. Also the internal shorthand for the whole domain |
| COGS | Cost of goods sold, one of the four contribution account groups |
| Combideal | A second product offered at a discount when bought with the one being viewed. See classifications |
| Contribution margin | What remains of revenue after the costs that vary with the order |
| Expected margin | Margin computed from synthetic downstream transactions. See expected margin |
| GP | Gross profit, revenues + cogs |
| Impact | The money a calculation rule books against an account |
| Life | A stretch of customer activity. A returning customer after a lapse starts a new one |
| Order intake | Whether the order counts as one the business took. An order that never converts is not intake. See classifications |
| PM | A pair of general ledger columns, 81100 + 71100, carried beside the margin chain |
| Realised margin | Margin from transactions that actually exist, as opposed to expected |
| Sequence | An order number: customerordersequence spans the customer; customerlifesequence_1y and _2y restart per life. See customer sequence and life |
| Uncounted | An order with status C or H. It belongs to the customer but is not numbered |
| VMC | Variable marketing costs: the cost of acquiring the order. One of the four contribution account groups |
| VOC | Variable operational costs: the cost of handling and fulfilling the order. One of the four contribution account groups |
Table name prefixes
The prefix tells you who owns the concept.
| Prefix | Means |
|---|---|
ns_ | Copied from NetSuite as it arrives |
vkd_ | Copied verbatim from the verkoopdump source |
ct_ | commercetools discount definitions |
gl_ | General ledger |
cm_ | Contribution margin, computed by CCC |
| (none) | CCC's own concept |
The distinction is load-bearing for customers: customersalesorders is the answer CCC computes and publishes, while vkd_customersalesorders is the old pipeline's answer kept beside it for comparison.
Related
- Documentation index
- Per-column meaning:
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Evidence
Account groups from config/reference/accountgroups.json. Status codes from config/reference/ns_transactionstatusses.json. Prefix meanings and the two sequence tables from AGENTS.md, Models and database. Basis: code-checked against the current implementation. The commercial meaning of aftikker, combideal and order intake, and the split between VOC and VMC, are from the data owner and from the public product pages on knivesandtools.com; see classifications and contribution margin, which carry the detail and the evidence.
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reference - Status
active - Updated
2026-09-14 - Created
2026-09-13