Glossary

Word	What it means
Access	Whether someone can read members-only content. Decided by FMS, not by Stripe.
Capability	One named thing a member is allowed to do, such as read a members-only article.
Comp	A free membership. Nobody is charged, ever.
Consolidation	The repair screen that compares FMS, Stripe and Mailchimp and fixes differences.
Dead letter	A message FMS failed to deliver so many times that it stopped trying. Needs a human.
Environment	A complete copy of the system with its own database. Production, or a sandbox.
External	Paid outside Stripe, usually by bank transfer, and recorded by hand.
Gate	The lock the WordPress plugin puts on members-only content.
Grace	A short window in which a member keeps reading after their payment stopped, either because FMS stopped it or because Stripe is still retrying their card.
Grant	Access given by hand from the admin portal, rather than bought at a checkout.
Hand over, hand back	Moving members from PMPro to FMS on the Migration page: everyone at once, on one morning, with Hand over everyone…. Hand back returns everyone, or one member, to PMPro, on the same morning only.
Hand-off link	The one-time link the website uses to sign a member in to the newsletter archive. It works once, for two minutes.
Master switch	The tick box in WordPress that lets FMS serve members. While PMPro is active, FMS serves only members handed over to it.
On PMPro	A member FMS has imported but not yet taken over. PMPro still serves them, and FMS changes nothing for them.
Newsletter archive	The separate site where members whose plan includes it read every past newsletter as an article. Plans that include it carry an archive badge.
Outbox	The queue FMS puts messages in before sending them, so nothing is lost or sent twice.
Plan	One thing you sell, with a name and a price.
PMPro	Paid Memberships Pro, the old membership plugin FMS replaces.
Reroute	Moving a member's billing to a different Stripe account so their card works.
Sandbox	A practice environment. Test cards work here and nowhere else.
SCA	The bank asking a member to confirm a payment in their banking app.
Seat	One person's place on a team membership.
Service key	The long secret starting fms_sk_ that lets WordPress talk to FMS.
Settlement	What actually reached the bank after Stripe took its fee.
Teaser	The first few paragraphs of a gated article, shown to everyone.
Whitelist grant	A comp membership with an end date. Access drops to free Community when it passes.