Glossary & statuses
People
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Centre owner | The top account of a centre. Can do everything in every branch. |
| Staff | Anyone with a staff login: portal user, Staff App user, or Room Service Dashboard account. |
| Service-only staff | Staff App users who only handle service requests (for example housekeeping). |
| Mother | The customer staying at the centre. She uses the Mother App. |
| Baby | A newborn under the centre's care. Babies are part of the mother's record and don't log in. |
| Companion | A family member or other authorised person on the mother's record, for reference and emergency contact. Companions don't log in. |
| Person In Charge | The staff member responsible for an event. |
The stay
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Branch | One location of a centre. Almost all data belongs to a branch. |
| Registration | The form a mother fills in, from a link, before she is booked. |
| Onboard | Booking a registered mother: package, dates, deposit. This creates her stay. |
| Stay | One confinement period of a mother at a branch. |
| Planned room | A room picked before check-in. It is a plan only: the room isn't marked Occupied until check-in. |
| Pre-check-in | The time between onboarding and arrival, including the pre-check-in form. |
| Check-in / Check-out | The mother arrives and gets her room / her stay ends. |
| Staying baby | A baby kept in the centre after the mother checks out. It is checked out separately later. |
| Overstay | Still checked in after the expected check-out date. |
| Branch transfer | Moving a mother's booking or stay to another branch of the same centre. |
| Room, Room type, Package | The physical room, its category, and the confinement package sold. |
| Day of stay | The check-in day is day 1. Used by Mom's Guide and feedback forms. |
Daily care
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Activity | A type of care the branch records, for example Feeding or Temperature. It defines the fields to fill in and the normal ranges. |
| Featured template | A ready-made activity you can copy into your branch with Add. |
| Report | One recorded activity for one mother or baby. |
| Alert | A report with a value outside the activity's normal range. On-duty staff are told straight away, and usually the mother too. |
| Carried out by | The staff member who did the activity. The branch can hide this from mothers. |
| Daily Summary | A portal page (and Excel export) with one mother's or baby's reports for one day, with totals. |
| Summary Report | A Staff App screen with each checked-in mother's and baby's latest report per activity. |
| Reminder | A repeating task (daily, weekly or monthly, at a set time) for one or more mothers or babies. |
| Next reminder | A one-off reminder set while recording a report. |
| Away & Return | The record of a mother or baby leaving the centre (Away) and coming back (Return). |
| In Center | The Staff App screen showing who is away and who is in the centre. |
Services, benefits and events
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Guest service | Something a checked-in mother can request from her room in the Mother App, for example a towel. |
| Service request | One request for a guest service. |
| On duty | A staff member's duty switch in the Staff App. Only on-duty staff get service request notifications. |
| Room Service Dashboard | A browser screen (TV or tablet) at the nurses' station showing service requests and, with Baby Overview, a card per baby and mother. |
| Benefit | Something included in a package: a service the mother books (for example a massage), or a product handed over at the counter. |
| Voucher | The units of a benefit a mother can use, from her package or added by staff. They may have an expiry date. |
| Daily slot | How many bookings a service takes per weekday. |
| Event | A centre event (for example a talk) with a venue, a capacity and invited mothers. |
Content
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Announcement | A message from the centre to staff and/or chosen mothers, sent as a phone notification. |
| Pinned announcement | The one announcement that pops up on the app Home screen until each person has read it. |
| Handbook | The branch's house rules PDF, one per language. A checked-in mother must accept it once per stay. |
| Mom's Guide | Confinement guides sent to the mother at check-in or on a set day of her stay. |
| Feedback form | Questions sent to mothers on a schedule, at check-in or check-out, or once. |
| Stay Connected | Messages from the branch sent to each mother at her own point in the journey, read in a separate inbox in the app. |
Statuses
Stay
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Pending | Onboarded. The pre-check-in form isn't done yet. |
| Pre-check-in | The pre-check-in form is done. Waiting for her to arrive. |
| Checked in | Staying at the centre. |
| Checked out | The stay has ended. Her records are kept. |
Staff
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Pending | Added, but hasn't finished the first login yet. |
| Active | Can log in. |
| Inactive | Deactivated in this branch. Can't log in here. |
Reports
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Not sent (Portal: Unsend) | Saved, but the mother hasn’t received it yet. Can still be edited or deleted in the Staff App. |
| Sending | Being delivered. It can't be opened for a moment. |
| Sent | The mother has received it. |
Reminders
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Ready | Created, and hasn't started yet. Only Ready reminders can be deleted. |
| Active | Running. Items are created each day. |
| Inactive | Paused. |
| Expired | Finished. It can only be duplicated. |
| Unassigned (tag) | No staff receiver is left, so nothing is created. Edit it to add a receiver. |
Service requests
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Pending | Waiting for staff. |
| Completed | Done by staff. The mother is told. |
| Cancelled | Cancelled by the mother. |
| Expired | Still pending when the mother checked out, so it was closed automatically. |
Benefit bookings
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Pending | The mother asked for a date. Waiting for staff to approve. |
| Approved | Confirmed with a time. |
| Rescheduled | Moved to another date or time by staff. |
| Completed | Staff scanned the mother's QR code. |
| Claimed | A product was handed over. |
| Rejected / Cancelled | Not going ahead. The voucher can be used again. |
Announcements, guest services and events
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Pending | Announcements and guest services: saved but not published. Nobody sees it. (A new event starts as Unpublished instead.) |
| Scheduled | Announcements only: will publish itself at the set date and time. |
| Published | Visible to staff or mothers. |
| Unpublished | Taken down. It can be edited and published again. |