Terminology

When working with the Qualy API you may find in our documentation and our API specific terms that may not be used outside of the payments industry or Qualy itself. Use this table to understand what these terms mean.

These are the most common terms used by Qualy:

Term	Meaning
Contact	Contact is the end-user, it's your customer. The one performing the payment. The term "Customer" may also be used interchangeably.
Tenant	This is Qualy's customer, a business that is using Qualy to receive payments.
Payment intent	A payment intent is a payment entry. It may be on different `status` and it's what Qualy uses to send reminders, and accept payments/transactions against. It's called a payment intent, as it may never become "paid".
Transaction	A transaction is created when Qualy needs to receive money or register money has been received. It's also used for refunds.
Method/Payment method	A payment may be paid by different methods (e.g. Credit Card, PayID, etc). Different entities in Qualy will have multiple methods associated to them.
User	A user is created by a "super admin" on Qualy, and it has access to the Dashboard.