Glossary

Term	Meaning
Organization	Your business on DashForDevs. Products, orders, customers, content and settings all belong to an organization. One person can belong to several. Ids look like `org__…`.
Member, role, permission	A member is a person in an organization. A role (Owner, Admin, Member, or one you create) is a set of permissions such as `org:manage` or `inventory.write`.
Dashboard	dashboard.dashfordevs.com, where an organization's team does day-to-day work.
Service	One part of the platform that owns one kind of data: inventory, orders, customers, content, shipping, payments, billing, analytics, automations, emails, logs. Each has its own database.
papi	papi.dashfordevs.com, the public API your website, apps and tools call with an API key. It checks the key and forwards the request to the right service.
tapi	The private gateway services and the dashboard use to talk to each other. It is not reachable from the internet.
Public key (`pk_…`)	An API key that is safe in browser code. Read-only, and a live one works only from the website addresses (origins) you allow.
Secret key (`sk_…`)	An API key that can change data. Server-side only. Never in a browser, an app bundle or a public repository.
Allowed origin	A website address (for example `shop.example.com`) allowed to use a live public key.
SDK (`dash4devs`)	The JavaScript library for the public API, with React components and a build tool.
Page group	A content type you define (for example Services, Team, FAQs). Each item has the fields you choose. Your site reads them through the API.
PHI	Protected health information: anything that ties a person to their health, including which health product they bought. The platform treats customer data as PHI.
BAA	Business associate agreement: the HIPAA contract between a business and a vendor that handles PHI for it.
HIPAA organization	An organization marked as holding PHI. Stricter rules apply, such as no third-party tools without a BAA.
Audit log	The append-only, hash-chained record every service keeps of what was done, by whom, to which records. It never stores the values.
Trace	One thing a person did (a page view, a save), followed across every service that took part. Shown in the dashboard under Logs.
Cloud app, Cloud database	A website or service deployed from GitHub on DashForDevs Cloud, and a managed Postgres database there.
MCP server	The Model Context Protocol endpoint that lets an AI assistant work with one organization's content, using that organization's secret key.

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