📖 Words explained

A few words show up across the app. Here is what each one means in plain terms.

• Linen sheet — a list of the linen you are sending to the laundry from one apartment on one day.
• Collection — a submitted linen sheet, once it is on its way to and from the laundry.
• Pending — submitted but not yet approved.
• Approved / Disputed — the counts were agreed (approved) or didn’t match and need sorting (disputed).
• Variance — the difference between what you sent and what came back.
• Par / Target — the amount of linen you aim to have, so you never run out during a turnover.
• Multiplier — how many full sets you keep per item (one on the bed, one in the wash, one spare).
• In Vault / On Shelf / At Properties / At Laundries — the places a piece of linen can be (At Laundries was once called *In Wash*).
• Coming back / in transit — clean linen a laundry has sent back but which you have not yet received onto the shelf.
• Linen Matching / Laundry Counts — your side of the laundry hand-off (receive clean back) and the laundry’s side (confirm the count, send clean back).
• Clean Queue / Dirty Queue — pack clean linen out to apartments (Clean) and count dirty linen back from them (Dirty).
• Shrinkage — linen lost or written off as damaged, as a share of what you bought.
• Normal / Hard wash — a standard wash versus a heavier wash that costs more.
• PMS — your booking system (the source of apartments and reservations).