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Glossary

The glossary is the single authoritative place Syndik8 defines a term. Reference, how-to, and explanation pages link here rather than restate a definition — so if you want to know what a word means, this is the page to land on.

Industry terms lead. The entry for Hobbs meter describes what an aircraft person means by the term first, then how Syndik8 uses it. Product-only terms (billing scheme, finalisation, founding lock) carry the Syndik8 meaning straight.

Each entry is short — usually three to eight lines. Longer context lives on the reference page linked from the entry’s See also list.

A

Section titled “A”
  • Admin — A member with elevated permissions below owner.
  • Airborne hours — Block time minus taxi time; the time the aircraft was off the ground.
  • Airworthiness — A per-asset, always-current answer to “can this asset be booked right now?”.
  • Annual discount — Paying yearly costs ten months’ worth, not twelve.
  • Approval status — A booking status in the admin-approval lifecycle (pending, confirmed, rejected).
  • Asset — A single shared thing — an aircraft, boat, property, or vehicle.
  • Asset type — The category of an asset; decides which forms and fields appear.
  • Audit trail — A record of who changed what and when.
  • auto-finalise — The syndicate toggle that finalises clean bookings without admin action.

B

Section titled “B”
  • Billing basis — Which time measurement drives the hourly charge: engine meter, block, or airborne.
  • Billing scheme — The internal name for a named member rate.
  • Booking mode — The granularity of a booking; only time-slot is shipped.

C

Section titled “C”
  • Cascading setting — A setting whose value falls back from per-asset to syndicate default to system default.
  • Caution — A squawk severity that warns without grounding the asset.
  • Clock time — Time captured from off-blocks to on-blocks wall-clock readings.
  • Credit — A ledger entry that reduces what you owe the syndicate.
  • Cycle — One landing or touch-and-go counted for cycle-based maintenance.

D

Section titled “D”
  • Debit — A ledger entry that increases what you owe the syndicate.
  • Default billing — The syndicate-level billing values used as defaults for multi-asset syndicates.
  • Deferred until — The expiry date on a deferred grounding squawk.
  • Demo syndicate — A 3-person, 1-aircraft syndicate Syndik8 loads on request for evaluation.
  • Dues — A periodic charge defined by a billing scheme.

E

Section titled “E”
  • Effective rate — The per-hour rate a specific member pays on a specific asset after the resolution chain runs.
  • Engine meter — The hour meter on the asset — Hobbs, tacho, or custom — that accumulates running time.
  • Event — A syndicate-level calendar entry, not tied to an asset.
  • Event fee — A per-occurrence charge for a counted event like a landing or a touch-and-go.
  • Exclusion constraint — The database rule that prevents two confirmed bookings from overlapping on the same asset.
  • Expense — A cost a member paid for the syndicate, submitted for admin approval to become a credit.

F

Section titled “F”
  • Finalisation — The act of finalising a booking’s financial consequences.
  • Founding — The first 50 syndicates to take out a paid subscription.
  • Founding lock — The two-year period during which a founding syndicate keeps 50% off.
  • Free tier — The no-cost plan with fixed size limits.
  • Functional cookie — A cookie strictly necessary for the site to work; no consent banner required under UK and EU rules.

G

Section titled “G”
  • Grace period — The window after a failed payment during which the syndicate still has full write access.
  • Grounding — A squawk severity that blocks new bookings on the asset.

H

Section titled “H”
  • Hobbs meter — An hour meter that runs whenever the engine runs.

I

Section titled “I”
  • ICS feed — A read-only calendar subscription URL for your bookings.
  • Info — A squawk severity with no operational impact.
  • Invite code — A short code shared with a person you want to join a syndicate.
  • Invite link — A URL that encodes an invite code.

L

Section titled “L”
  • Landing — A full-stop landing recorded on a usage log.
  • Last-write-wins — The conflict rule for most synced tables: later write replaces earlier.
  • Ledger — The append-only record of every financial transaction in a syndicate.

M

Section titled “M”
  • Maintenance item — A scheduled task tracked against an asset.
  • Member — An ordinary participant in a syndicate.
  • Member balance — The running signed sum of a member’s transactions.
  • Member rate — A named package of financial terms assigned to a member.
  • Meter reading — The number shown on an engine meter at a moment in time.
  • Multi-asset mode — The UI state of a syndicate that has two or more assets.

O

Section titled “O”
  • Offline sync — How Syndik8 keeps a local copy of your syndicate data on your device and syncs with the server.
  • Owner — The member with the highest authority in a syndicate.

P

Section titled “P”

R

Section titled “R”
  • Rate modifier — The adjustment a billing scheme applies to an asset’s base rate.
  • Rate override — A per-asset rate that pins a scheme’s rate on one asset.
  • Read-only mode — The state a syndicate enters when its grace period expires unpaid.
  • Registration — An aircraft’s unique identifier, e.g. G-DEMO.
  • Renter (rate) — A common label for a member rate with low dues and a higher hourly. Not a role.
  • Role — The kind of participant a member is — owner, admin, member, or viewer.

S

Section titled “S”
  • Settlement — A payments-domain record of how a transaction was paid (card, Direct Debit, waiver, fund offset). Distinct from booking finalisation.
  • Shortfall — The charge for a booking that used less than the configured minimum.
  • Shortfall rate — The per-hour rate applied to shortfall hours.
  • Signed URL — A time-limited URL that grants a specific viewer access to a private file.
  • Single-asset mode — The UI state of a syndicate that has exactly one asset.
  • Soft delete — Marking a record as deleted without removing it from the database.
  • Squawk — A reported defect or discrepancy against an asset.
  • Statement — A monthly summary of a member’s transactions.
  • Subscription token — The credential embedded in your ICS feed URL.
  • Syndicate — A group of people who share an asset.

T

Section titled “T”
  • Tach meter — An hour meter that accumulates at a rate proportional to engine RPM.
  • Tacho-continuity conflict — A disagreement between one log’s start meter and the previous log’s end meter on the same asset.
  • Taxi minutes — Minutes subtracted from block time to produce airborne hours.
  • Tech log — An aircraft’s formal record of flights and maintenance.
  • Tentative (pencilled-in) booking — A non-binding hold on a slot.
  • Touch-and-go — A landing immediately followed by a take-off without coming to a stop.
  • Transaction type — One of the kinds of entry a ledger can carry.

U

Section titled “U”
  • Upgrade prompt — What you see when a free-tier limit is hit.
  • Usage log — A record of one session of asset use.
  • Usage rate — The per-hour base rate for using an asset.

V

Section titled “V”
  • Viewer — A read-only role. Viewers can see the calendar, members, and assets but cannot book or log usage.

W

Section titled “W”
  • Web-email-handoff — The mobile upgrade flow: app sends an email, user completes upgrade on the web.