Order Confirmation
Order Confirmation is a message or system event acknowledging that an order has been received or accepted. In order and fulfillment operations,…
Glossary terms starting with O
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Order Currency
Order Currency is the currency in which an order’s prices, totals, taxes, and commercial obligation are recorded. In order and fulfillment operations,…
Order Defect Rate
Order defect rate is the percentage of eligible orders with one or more defined problems that materially reduce correctness, delivery, or customer…
Order ID
Order ID is a system-assigned identifier that uniquely distinguishes an order within a defined scope. In order and fulfillment operations, it commonly…
Order Lifecycle
Order Lifecycle is the sequence of states and events through which an order moves from creation to completion, cancellation, return, or closure.…
Order Management
Order Management is the discipline and system capability used to control orders across sales, payment, inventory, fulfillment, service, and returns. In order…
Order Operations
Order Operations is the ongoing operational work required to keep orders accurate and moving through their lifecycle. In order and fulfillment operations,…
Order Payment
An order payment is a payment attempt or completed transfer associated with satisfying some or all of a specific order's monetary obligation.…
Order Processing
Order Processing is the set of actions that validates, accepts, prepares, and advances an order toward fulfillment or delivery. In order and…
Order Reconciliation
Order reconciliation compares commerce orders with invoices, payment attempts, captures, refunds, fees, fulfillment, settlement, and accounting records. It confirms that each order's…
Order Reference
Order Reference is a human-readable or external value used to locate, communicate about, or reconcile an order. In order and fulfillment operations,…
Order Refund
An order refund returns all or part of the value paid for a specific order. It should preserve which items, taxes, shipping,…
Order Status
Order Status is a controlled state indicating the current condition of an order within the merchant’s lifecycle model. In order and fulfillment…
Order Synchronization
Order Synchronization is the process of keeping order data and state consistent across commerce, payment, inventory, fulfillment, accounting, and support systems. In…
Order Total
Order Total is the final or current calculated amount associated with an order after applying defined price components. In order and fulfillment…
Order Webhook
Order Webhook is an asynchronous integration concept that notifies another system when an order, line item, payment association, fulfillment stage, or cancellation…
Order-Specific Payment Link
An order-specific payment link is a URL or deep link generated for one defined commercial order. It connects the customer to payment…
Order-to-Ledger Reconciliation
Order-to-Ledger Reconciliation is the process of linking commercial orders to the ledger entries that recognize receivables, cash, fees, refunds, taxes, and revenue…
Origin Authentication
Origin authentication verifies that data, software, requests, or messages came from the claimed source rather than an impersonator or substitute. Origin authentication…
Orphan Block
An orphan block is a block outside a node's accepted canonical history, often because its parent is missing or another branch won.…
Orphan Transaction
An orphan transaction is a transaction that a node cannot fully validate because a required parent transaction or referenced output is missing…
Out of band authorization (OOB)
Out of band authorization (OOB) is a security mechanism or control discipline that out-of-band authorization approves an action through a separate communication…
Out-of-Order Webhook
An out-of-order webhook is an event delivered after a newer event for the same entity, so arrival order differs from business sequence.…
Outsourcing Risk
Outsourcing risk is exposure created when an external provider performs important processes, technology, support, compliance, custody, or operational functions. Outsourcing Risk must…