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Interiors vocabulary varies by studio and by country. This is what these words mean in Atelier, which is not always what they mean in your office.

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Structure

Studio — Your workspace. Holds your branding, currency, tax settings, team and everything below. One studio per subscription. Client — The entity you invoice. Can have several contacts and several projects. Contact — A named person on a client or vendor record, with their own email, phone and role. Project — One job for one client. Holds phases, tasks, pinboards, schedules and files. Phase — A stage of a project with a start date, end date and colour. Phases draw the timeline on the project Overview. Vendor — Anyone you buy from: manufacturer, showroom, dealer, workroom, fabricator, freight company.

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Specifying

Product library — The studio-wide catalogue of every product you have specified. Shared across all projects. Product — A single item in the library, with brand, category, dimensions, retail price, vendor and images. Pinboard — A shareable canvas of images, plans, materials and product shots. Can hold several pages. Pin — One item on a pinboard. A pin linked to a library product carries that product’s real price, brand and vendor. FF&E — Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment. The standard industry term for everything specified into a space that is not the building itself. Schedule — The FF&E list for a project: what goes in, how many, what it costs, and where it is in procurement. Three views — Planning, Financials, Procurement.

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Money

Retail price — The public price of a product, held in the library. Reference only. Vendor cost — What the vendor charges you on this job. Trade price. Margin is calculated from this, never from retail. Markup — Your uplift on the vendor cost, as a percentage. Set per item on a schedule, where the column is Markup %. The same number reaches the client under a different name: see Procurement fee. Procurement fee — What your markup is called on an invoice. It is not a second charge and not a different number — it is the schedule’s Markup %, wearing the wording your studio chose in Settings → Studio → Procurement fee label. Building an invoice from a schedule shows it against each row as 35% procurement fee, so a studio that renamed it to Design Management will read that instead. Rename it there rather than editing invoices one by one. Selling price — Vendor cost plus markup, per unit. What the client pays for one. Client total — Selling price × quantity. The invoice line. Budget — The total the client has agreed, set on the project. Shown against spend on the schedule’s Financials view.

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Documents

Proposal — What you send before the work is agreed. Invoice — A bill to the client. Usually created from a schedule, so line items, markup and tax carry across. Change order — A documented, priced change to agreed scope. The record of what the client signed up to after the original proposal. Purchase order (PO) — What you send a vendor to place an order. Carries your studio details and the project’s ship-to address.

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Procurement

Lead time — How long a piece takes to arrive, in the vendor’s own words. Free text, because vendors quote it in incompatible ways. Est. ship — An actual date the vendor expects to ship, on the Procurement view. Unlike lead time, this is a date. Status — Where a schedule item is in the flow, from Pending to Paid. Ready to order — Items the client has approved that nobody has ordered yet. Counted on the project Overview. Reuse — no purchase — A status for the client’s existing furniture that stays in the scheme. Appears in the specification, costs nothing, never reaches procurement. To be sourced — A status for a piece you know is needed but have not found yet. Holds its place on the schedule and in the budget.

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Working

Inbox — Your notification feed: task activity involving you (assigned, replied to, reacted to), plus every comment and approval from shared pinboards. Shared schedules don’t notify — they’re read-only for the client. My tasks — Everything assigned to you, across all projects. Today — Your private notepad for the day. Nothing arrives in it automatically; nobody else can see it. Pinned — Schedules and pinboards you have pinned to the sidebar.