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Glossary of VisionScaper terms
Plain-language meanings of the words you meet in the designer, the Contractor Hub, the phone app, the shop and the admin pages.
On this page
This is an alphabetical list. Entries are written from how the product itself uses the words.
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| A2P 10DLC | US carrier registration needed before a business can send texts. Texts can be blocked until it is approved. |
| Autopay | Charging an invoice marked “autopay” on its due date to a card or bank account the customer saved on Stripe’s page. Off site-wide until the owner switches it on. |
| Badge | A medal a community member earns automatically, such as Plant Spotter or Week Streak. |
| Blank canvas | Clearing weeds, plants and clutter from a bed or lawn so it is clean and ready to design on (version 2.48.0). |
| Brief | The guided description of a project you send when you request quotes. It gets a completeness score. |
| Catch-up window | An owner setting that lets older accounts keep two named features until a date. Every use is labelled “grandfathered”. |
| Change order | An extra-work document linked to a signed quote. Unsigned ones are “Not counted yet”. |
| Comp | Free access the owner gives a contractor. |
| Contractor Hub | The business side of VisionScaper: customers, quotes, jobs, invoices, scheduling, messages and more. |
| Credit | One use of the image AI. Free daily credits come first, then plan credits, then bought credits. |
| Crew shell | The three-tab phone (My day, Time, Messages) given to crew and leaders. |
| Design | A saved yard project: your photo plus plants, materials and edits. |
| Designer | The homeowner-facing studio where you build a design. |
| Dispatch | Assigning people and times to a job, with live conflict warnings. |
| DKIM, SPF, DMARC | Three email records that prove your sending domain is real. Missing ones push mail toward spam. |
| Dream-to-Reality | A 1 to 5 score from customers for how closely the finished yard matched the design. |
| Entitlement | One capability, such as “Route Optimizer”, that a plan includes or not. |
| EAS / Expo | The cloud service used to build the phone app, and its push service. |
| Erase & fill | The tool for selecting part of a photo and removing it or covering it with mulch, lawn or stone. |
| Eye level | The line in a photo at the camera’s height. It sets how plants scale with distance. |
| Field trigger | A rule: when a field event happens, do a task, alert managers or message the customer. |
| Known-good look | A saved copy of the last site look that worked, kept for emergency restore. |
| Kill switch | An owner setting that stops all texts and emails on the site. |
| Level | A community rank from lifetime points: Seedling to Garden Legend. |
| Lock | An owner setting that stops lower layers changing a category of the site look. |
| Moderation | Reviewing reported community posts and members. |
| Name style | A cosmetic style for a member’s display name, unlocked by level. |
| Outbox | Taps on the phone the website has not confirmed yet. |
| Override | A reasoned exception that gives one account a feature or a limit. |
| Plan matrix | The table of what each plan includes. |
| Plant ID | The tool that identifies a plant from a photo. |
| Points | The currency members earn for taking part and trade for rewards. All values are placeholders. |
| Push notification | An alert sent to the phone through Expo to Apple or Google. |
| Quiet hours | Times when texts are held. The default window is 8 am to 9 pm local time. |
| REST API | How the app talks to your website. Its address is your site plus /wp-json/. |
| Role | Owner, manager, leader or crew. Each has its own permissions. |
| Scale | How big things in the photo are in real life. |
| Shortcode | A bracketed tag like [visionscaper] that puts the app on a page. |
| Streak | Days in a row a member visited. |
| Subscriber | The WordPress user role given to customer accounts. |
| Title | The line under a member’s name, chosen from earned levels and badges. |
| Webhook | A message Stripe or a provider sends your site when something happens, such as a payment. |
| VisionScaper Browser | The public community of shared designs. |
Tips
- If a word you meet is not here, search the help center for it.
- Words with “placeholder” in the help articles are not approved values.
If something goes wrong
- A label in your app differs from this list: the label in your version is correct. Tell the site owner so the help can be updated.