| Customer | End consumer who purchases products and services offered through sales channels of a company. | User |
| Merchant | Either owner of a Fynd Platform account or its authorized staff members who can use the feature being described. | Seller |
| Selling Location | Physical Store, warehouse, storage facility, or fulfillment center where merchants keep their inventory stock. | Store, Location |
| Application | Sales channel through which customers explore merchant offerings and make purchase. | Sales Channel, Storefront |
| Application API | Gives access to customer facing data of an application to power storefront user experience. | Storefront API |
| Application ID | Unique identifier of a sales channel of a company. | |
| Company | A merchant account on Fynd Platform. | Fynd Platform Account, Merchant or Seller Account, Account. |
| Company ID | Unique identifier of a company. | |
| Extensions | Plugins that extend the functionality of a merchant's company on the Fynd Platform by offering additional features beyond the basic capabilities. | |
| Fynd Development Kit (FDK) | Suite of resources and tools designed to expedite extension and theme development and improve developer productivity. | SDK |
| FDK Client | SDK library that abstracts away the underlying complexities of making API requests to Fynd Platform and handling responses. | SDK libraries, FDK Client libraries, fdk-client-javascript, fdk-client-java |
| Platform API | Gives access to merchant facing data of a company like creating products, updating inventory, creating promotions, and so on. | |
| Company level platform API | Gives access to merchant facing data that isn't related to a specific sales channel and generally affects all the sales channel. You don't require to specify Application ID in these APIs. | |
| Application level platform API | Gives access to merchant facing data related to a specific sales channel. You need to pass Application ID in these APIs to specify which sales channel the API is requested for. | |
| Partner API | Gives access to partner account data and helps in extension and theme management. | |
| Theme Editor | Allows merchant to customize the appearance and functionality of their online store by modifying layout, and design elements. | |
| Partner Organization | A partner account created on Fynd Partners required for accessing Fynd Platform as a partner. | Partner Account |
| FDK CLI | Streamlines development tasks, enabling developers to create starter code template, build, and test extensions and themes efficiently from the command line. | |
| Environment | Cluster in which the extension or theme is being built. Can be derived from the domain where your partner account is created. If your partner account is created on https://parters.fynd.com then environment (or cluster) URL would be https://api.fynd.com | Cluster |
| Themes Marketplace | Themes store where merchants can explore and install ready to use themes for their online storefront. | Themes Store |
| Live Account | Represents an access of a partner organization to a merchant operated company on Fynd Platform. Live account id is same as company id. | Company |
| Development Account | Test company on Fynd Platform used by developers for testing extensions or themes before they are made available to merchants. | |
| Partner Panel | User interface provided to Fynd partners enabling developing and publishing extensions and themes, managing development and live accounts, accessing resources, and tracking performance metrics. | |
| Extension URL | Hosting URL of the extension server | Base URL, Launch URL, Hosting URL |
| Action Component | Vue components that expose functions for theme developer to call Application API. | |
| Sections | Sections are re-usable UI elements which can be configured from Theme Editor. | |
| Blocks | Blocks are used as multi-entry props for a section. These are configurable from Theme Editor. | |
| Theme Components | UI Components exported from a theme. | |
| System Pages | Pre-defined pages for a theme. | Theme Pages |
| Global Components | Components defined in theme engine which can be used by theme developers. | |
| Fynd Platform Interface (FPI) | Class that helps manage extension theme bindings and listen to events triggered by theme engine in online storefront during customer sessions. | |
| Theme Binding | Enables extension UI components to be dynamically rendered in the online storefront. | |
| Extension Type | Represents the way in which extension interacts with Fynd Platform and type of use case solved. Following type of extension can be created: General, Payments, Sales Channel & Logistics. | |
| Company-level Extension | Provide features that are not related to sales channels and are accessible to merchants from the Extensions tab under Company area on Fynd Platform. | Company Launch Type |
| Application-level Extension | Add features in sales channels and are accessible to merchants from Extensions tab under Sales channels. | Application Launch Type, Sales Channel-level Extension |
| Marketplace Extension | Connect merchant stores to marketplaces like Amazon, Flipkart, AJIO, and so on. | Sales Channel Extension |
| Payments Extension | Integrate Fynd Platform with Payment Gateway or Payment aggregator to provide payment processing services to merchants. | |
| Logistics Extension | Integrate Fynd Platform with Delivery Partners to provide delivery services to merchants. | |
| Extension Distribution | Refers to the way extension is published to be accessible to intended merchants. | |
| Private Extension | Distributed to and installable by specific companies | |
| Public Extension | Published on extensions marketplace and can be installed by any merchant on Fynd Platform. | |
| Partner Access Token | Authentication token generated from partner panel that is required to create extension and theme through FDK CLI. | |
| FDK Extension Library | Streamlines extension development by auto handling extension OAuth implementation and providing methods to generate API Clients, subscribe to webhooks, and implement extension’s session and access token storage. | Extension Helper Library, fdk-extension-javascript, fdk-extension-java |
| Access Scope | Represents a permission given to API client to access required data of merchant's company. | Scopes, Permissions, API scopes |
| Extension Proxy URL | Enables extension to make API calls to its server from online storefronts using Fynd Platform as a proxy so as to avoid CORS error by browser. | |
| Extension ID | Unique identifier of an extension. | Extension Client ID, extension-api-key |
| Extension Secret | Secret key used for authenticating interaction between Fynd Platform and extension. | Extension Client Secret, extension-api-secret |
| Access Mode | Determines the way access token can be used to call Fynd Platform APIs. It can be Online or Offline. | |
| Online Access Mode | Generates temporary access token to be used for calling Fynd Platform APIs while merchant is actively interacting with extension in iframe on Fynd Platform's merchant panel. | |
| Online Access Token | Token generated using Online Access mode. Can only be used for calling Fynd Platform APIs when the extension is opened in iframe by merchant on Fynd Platform.. | |
| Offline Access Mode | Used for calling Fynd Platform APIs in background tasks that don't require active merchant session like handling payments, updating inventory. | |
| Offline Access Token | Token generated using offline access mode and can be used to call Fynd Platform APIs in background tasks. | |
| Extension Launch type | Determines where in the merchant panel the extension is accessible to merchants to open it in an iframe. | Launch location |
| Extension Bridge Library | Helps to set up contextual UI components as part of the header when extensions are launched in iframe. | |
| Public Theme | Themes that can be used and customized by multiple merchants as per their requirements. These themes are listed on themes marketplace. | |
| Custom Theme | Theme developed for a specific storefront and is not easily customizable for other storefronts. | |
| Partner Access Token | Authentication token generated from partner panel that is required to create extension and theme through FDK CLI. | |