Glossary

Term Meaning
Instance A tenant. Owns all business data and pluginConfig; identified by instanceId.
Account A B2B company record; supports parent/child hierarchy.
Account user Link of a platform userId to an account as BUYER or SELLER, optionally on a team.
Team Named group of account users within an account.
Cost centre Departmental spend unit owning embedded budgets.
Budget amount vs spent allocation with a validity period, embedded in a cost centre.
Budget transaction Idempotent DEBIT/CREDIT ledger entry keyed by orderId.
Contract Purchasing agreement with validity window and creditLimit.
Payment term Net-terms definition (e.g. NET30).
Attribute Tenant-defined custom field (identifier is immutable).
Order validation The /validate gate: contract + budget + credit-limit checks.
pluginConfig Instance-level config selecting custom validators / lifecycle handlers.
Authorization check Route-level privilege check performed against the platform JWT auth service.
Extension loader Mechanism that resolves a tenant’s custom validator module from its configured source (package, file, or S3).
EQ-ACC- code Error identifier; embeds the HTTP status in its numeric prefix.
account-service EventBridge source string for emitted events.

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2026-08-05 | AN – Page created and uploaded the contents