Glossary

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Find below the list of terms that are regularly mentioned in inwink:

• Auto-check-in

  • The auto check-in module allows the registered participant to print his badge on site or to register on site on the day of the event.

• Business Meeting

  • The Business Meeting feature allows participants to schedule meetings with partner companies on the day of the event.

• Check-in

  • The check-in module allows to have the list of persons registered to the event, and to check the attendees on arrival on site.

• CMS

  • A CMS, Content Management System, is a design and update tool for a website.

• Data

  • All the data are information filled in the fields whether by a website participant or by the organizer in the Back-End.

• Domain name

  • The domain name is the website’s URL.

• Entity

  • An entity is a group of things. For inwink, it means participants, sessions, speakers, etc.
• Linked entity
  • A linked entity is one that is dependent on another (parent) entity.  For example, a room or a speaker attached to a session.

• Fields

  • A field is an information on an entity. Some fields are automatically created in inwink. Furthermore, you can create new fields in order to customize the event.

• Grid

  • A grid allows to display data of an entity in lines and columns (fields).

• Group of tickets

  • A group of tickets allows the buyer to pay for several tickets defined by the organizer at the same time. The price is also defined by the organizer.

• Matchmaking

  • The matchmaking allows the participants to interconnect, based on the information on their profiles.

• OS

  • An OS is an Operating System. iOS is Apple’s operating system, Android in Google’s operating system.

• Package

  • A package is a group of products such as quotas of badges, quotas of business meetings, but also tasks and documents to be assigned to a group of partners.

• Preview

  • Preview is a version of the website that is only accessible for organizers and allows the update of the website, and to check modifications before they are published.

• Product

  • A product is assigned to a partner, individually, or through a package. A package can be a quota of badges, a quota of business meetings, or tasks and documents.

• Publish

  • Publish is the version of the website opened to every participant, which contains modifications published in preview.

• Push notifications

  • A push notification is a notification sent from the Back-Office and received by the participant on the mobile app.

• Registration status

  • The registration status allows to know if a participant is registered, refused or unsubscribed to an event, or if he didn’t precise his attendance to the event.

• Root website

  • The root website is a website which gathers all the events.

• Scan area

  • A scan area allows to scan participants at specific areas of the event, beside the reception and the session rooms.

• Scoring

  • Scoring system which allows to associate a score between two participants in the networking.

• SSL certificate

  • A SSL certificate allows to secure the access to the website.

• Template

  • A template allows to choose the display template of entity data on the website.

• Ticket

  • A ticket is bought by the participant on the website or on ticketing. This ticket allows the participant to register to the event.

• Timeline

  • The timeline gathers all the actions related to the participant (email sending, website connection, appointment scheduling, etc.).

• Tiny URL

  • The tiny URL refers to the end of the preview’s URL. By default, preview has the following format: preview.inwink.com/tiny-url.
  • In case of a root website, the tiny URL will refer to what follows the root website’s URL: myrootwebsiteurl/tiny-url.

• UTM

  • UTMs are marketing campaigns tracking systems. There are 5 of them: utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_term, utm_content.

• Web app

  • The web app refers to the mobile version of the website.

• Whitelabelling

  • The whitelabelling is the action which authorizes inwink to use a domain name in order to send emails as a white-label.