Terminology

We’ve put together an A-Z list to give you a good introduction to some of the most important terms that you’ll come across when working in Last Yard.

API Key

A token required to be able to call the Last Yard API for a specific store.

Articles

These are master product records normally held at the head office/support office level and host out core product information to all stores in the hierarchy where that product information is identical across all stores.

Article Prices

As above but for prices.

Article Stores

These are store-specific records that augment the parent Article and either extend a products data with local store data or override certain attributes.

Article Store Prices

As above but for prices

Batch

A batch is a collection of tickets with a name and a due date for printing.

Batch State

The state that a batch is in e.g. “open” or “printed” - the due date then determines if an “open” batch falls under “Due Today” or “Future”.

Dashboard

The stores “to-do” list of ticketing activity which is broken down into “Due Today”, “Future” and “Completed”.

Filters

Tickets in a batch can be “tagged” with information which then allows users to filter a large batch and only print parts of it.

Items (Tickets)

Items are the tickets inside a batch.

Mapping

A set of input column names that map to field names on one or more templates.

Query

A query provides the information required to pull data via a connection and parse it. E.g. a “products” query and a “prices” query might both use the same underlying connection yet pull in different data and send it to different areas of the Product Information Management software (PIM).

Shelf Talker

Shelf Talkers are small printed tickets that attached to a retail shelf on which the product is displayed for sale.

Store

A physical store location or site with it’s own tickets, ticketing process & dashboard.

Templates

A template is the layout of a what is on a ticket. A template defines the ticket size, offer layouts and styling such as font and size. The Last Yard platform renders tickets by combining the data in an item with its template to produce a final printed ticket.

Themes

A theme specifies what artwork will be used by the template. For example, a “Mothers Day Theme” might change the colour scheme and header image of a regular “9up Talker” template

UP i.e 3up, 9up, 12up

'Up' is the term used to describe the amount of tickets that will fit onto an A4 piece of paper. For example; a '9up' will be an A4 page divided up in to 3 rows and 3 columns to create 9 tickets on the page.