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Glossary
Short definitions of the terms used across Monime's documentation, from Spaces and Monimeers to payouts, webhooks and dots.
The words below have a specific meaning in Monime. Across the docs, the first mention of each on a page is underlined: hover over it, or focus it with the keyboard, to see its definition here.
Access token
Also: access tokens, Personal Access Token, personal access token, PAT
A secret that authenticates your API requests, sent as Authorization: Bearer …. A Monimeer creates it in the dashboard, and it can only do what both its own roles and its creator's roles allow.
Checkout Session
Also: Checkout Sessions, checkout session, checkout sessions
A Monime-hosted payment page for a set of items. You create it through the API, send the customer to its redirectUrl, and Monime returns them to your site when they finish.
Dash
Also: Dash app
Monime's app for sending and receiving money in Sierra Leone. Customers open dots from its Dots tab.
Dot
Also: Dash Dots, Dash Dot, Dots, dots, dot
A mini app that runs inside Dash, also called a Dash Dot, with Dash's payment rails built in. Customers open it from Dash's Dots tab, with nothing new to download. A dot belongs to a Space, and the Monimeers who build it work on it as members of that Space.
Financial Account
Also: Financial Accounts, financial account, financial accounts
An internal ledger that holds money in a single currency within a Space. Every payment, payout and transfer moves money into or out of one.
Financial Transaction
Also: Financial Transactions, financial transaction, financial transactions
A single credit or debit to a Financial Account. Together, an account's financial transactions are the full history of how its balance changed.
Idempotency key
Also: idempotency key, idempotency keys, Idempotency keys
A unique value sent in the Idempotency-Key header, so a request that is retried is never carried out twice. Monime remembers each key for 24 hours, per Space.
Internal Transfer
Also: Internal Transfers, internal transfer, internal transfers
A movement of money between two Financial Accounts in the same Space. It never leaves Monime, so no bank or mobile money network is involved.
Minor units
Also: minor units, minor unit, minor currency units
The smallest unit of a currency, which the API uses for every amount: a value of 25000 in SLE is SLE 250.00.
Mobile money
Also: mobile money, Mobile Money
Money kept in a wallet linked to a phone number and run by a mobile network operator. Monime takes payments from, and pays out to, mobile money wallets.
Monimeer
Also: Monimeers
A personal Monime user account, for a developer, operator or member of a finance team. One Monimeer can belong to several Spaces, with different roles in each.
Ownership Graph
Also: ownership graph, ownership graphs
The chain that records where a resource came from, such as the checkout session and API request behind a payment. Every object carries it as ownershipGraph.
Payment Code
Also: Payment Codes, payment code, payment codes
A short-lived code that a payer enters or scans, in USSD or QR flows, to pay you.
Payout
Also: Payouts, payout, payouts
A transfer of money from a Financial Account to a bank account or mobile money wallet outside Monime, such as a salary or a vendor payment.
Receipt
Also: Receipts
A record, created when a payment completes, of what the customer is entitled to, such as tickets, vouchers or credits.
Space
Also: Spaces
The account of a business on Monime, and the boundary around its data. Every resource belongs to one Space, and every API request names the Space it acts in.
Space ID
Also: Space IDs
The identifier of a Space, starting with spc-. Send it in the Monime-Space-Id header of every API request.
Test mode and live mode
Also: Test mode, test mode, Test Mode, live mode, Live mode
Monime's two separate environments. Test tokens, which start with mon_test_, move no real money; live tokens start with mon_. Test and live data never mix.
USSD flow
Also: USSD flows, USSD Flow, USSD Flows
A menu customers reach by dialling a short code on any phone. You design it in the dashboard, and it can take mobile money payments with no payment integration.
Webhook
Also: Webhooks, webhooks, webhook
An HTTPS endpoint of yours that Monime calls with a POST request when events you subscribe to happen, such as a payment completing.