Checkout Funnel
A checkout funnel is an analytical model that groups the checkout journey into ordered stages and measures how many eligible customers or…
Glossary terms starting with C
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Checkout Latency
Checkout latency is the elapsed time between a customer or system action and the corresponding checkout response or state change. It can…
Checkout Localization
Checkout localization is the adaptation of checkout content and behavior to a customer’s language, country, currency, address format, tax context, payment methods,…
Checkout Optimization
Checkout optimization is the disciplined process of improving checkout completion and customer outcomes by testing changes to flow, performance, clarity, accessibility, payment…
Checkout Page
A checkout page is the customer-facing interface where order details are reviewed and required information, delivery choices, and payment details are collected…
Checkout Payment
A checkout payment is the payment attempt or settlement action associated with a specific checkout and its order context. The checkout provides…
Checkout Plugin
Checkout Plugin is a developer integration component that adds payment or order-completion functionality to an existing commerce platform without requiring the merchant…
Checkout Recovery
Checkout recovery is the process of helping a customer resume or complete a checkout after abandonment, error, timeout, payment failure, or interrupted…
Checkout Session
A checkout session is a temporary stateful record that groups the customer, cart or line items, amounts, currency, configuration, progress, and payment…
Checkout Success Rate
Checkout success rate is the percentage of eligible checkout sessions or payment attempts that reach a precisely defined successful outcome. The metric…
Checkout Validation
Checkout validation is the set of checks that confirms a checkout request is complete, consistent, permitted, and ready for the next state.…
Checkout Webhook
A checkout webhook is a signed server notification reporting a checkout session or payment event to the merchant’s backend application. A reliable…
Checkpoint Block
A checkpoint block is a block designated by a protocol, validator vote, client rule, or operator policy as a reference point for…
Checkpoint Bridge
A checkpoint bridge transfers messages or assets using periodically finalized source-chain checkpoints that destination contracts accept as verification anchors. This design avoids…
Checkpoint Proof
A checkpoint proof cryptographically demonstrates that a block, state, transaction, or message belongs beneath an accepted checkpoint commitment. Proof validity has two…
Checksum
A checksum is a value calculated from data and stored or transmitted with it so software can detect many accidental changes during…
Chief Compliance Officer
A Chief Compliance Officer is the senior executive responsible for overseeing an organization's compliance framework, reporting, advice, monitoring, and escalation. The Chief…
Child Block
A child block is a block that directly references another block as its parent and extends that parent’s history by one step.…
Child Pays for Parent (CPFP)
Child Pays for Parent raises a Bitcoin transaction package's effective fee by spending an unconfirmed output with a high-fee child transaction. Miners…
CIP-25
CIP-25 is Cardano's media token metadata standard for associating native assets with descriptive fields stored in minting transaction metadata. The asset itself…
CIP-68
CIP-68 is Cardano's datum metadata standard for programmable native assets whose metadata can be read and updated through on-chain outputs. Unlike transaction-metadata…
Circuit Breaker
Circuit Breaker is a resilience control that temporarily stops calls to a failing or overloaded dependency after defined failure conditions are reached.…
Circulating Supply
Circulating supply is an estimate of the number of coin or token units considered publicly available and economically circulating at a given…
CIS Critical Security Controls
The CIS Critical Security Controls are a prioritized set of safeguards published by the Center for Internet Security to help organizations reduce…