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title: "Glossary"
description: "The words used across the Charitips docs, from campaign and claim to child account and fiscal receipt, each in one line with a link to learn more."
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# Glossary

> The words used across the Charitips docs, from campaign and claim to child account and fiscal receipt, each in one line with a link to learn more.

One line per term, in alphabetical order, with the page that explains it.

## A to C

- **Access token**: the key your server sends with every call. It lasts one hour. [Authentication](https://www.charitips.com/docs/get-started/authentication.md)
- **Account**: your organization at Charitips, with its own id (`accountId`), campaigns, users and invoices. [Plans and prerequisites](https://www.charitips.com/docs/overview/plans.md)
- **Account hierarchy**: a parent account that manages one child account per business customer. [Account hierarchy](https://www.charitips.com/docs/concepts/account-hierarchy.md)
- **Activation**: the step that opens a campaign to donations. It needs a charities selection and an active subscription. [Activate a campaign](https://www.charitips.com/docs/api-reference/activate-campaign.md)
- **B2C use case**: the option that lets your individual users pay for their donations and receive a tax receipt in their name. [Your users give their own money](https://www.charitips.com/docs/use-cases/b2c.md)
- **Budget**: the total amount of a fixed-budget campaign, in cents, billed when the campaign is activated. [Campaigns](https://www.charitips.com/docs/concepts/campaigns.md)
- **Campaign**: the rules shared by a group of donations: the charities offered, duration, budget, receipts. Every donation belongs to one. [Campaigns](https://www.charitips.com/docs/concepts/campaigns.md)
- **Cast**: choosing the charity of a vote. [Cast a vote](https://www.charitips.com/docs/api-reference/cast-vote.md)
- **Charities selection**: the list of charities a campaign offers. Yours, or one Charitips keeps up to date. [Charities and selections](https://www.charitips.com/docs/concepts/charities.md)
- **Charity profile**: what a charity shows about itself (name, mission, logo, impact), in several languages, kept up to date by the charity. [Charities and selections](https://www.charitips.com/docs/concepts/charities.md)
- **Child account**: the account of one of your business customers, under your parent account. [Account hierarchy](https://www.charitips.com/docs/concepts/account-hierarchy.md)
- **Claim**: linking a donation to the charity picked for it. [Claim a donation](https://www.charitips.com/docs/api-reference/claim-donation.md)
- **Client id and secret**: your API credentials, exchanged for an access token. Sandbox pairs start with `test_`, live pairs with `live_`. [Authentication](https://www.charitips.com/docs/get-started/authentication.md)

## D to M

- **Delegated billing**: each business customer is invoiced directly, instead of you. [Bill your business customers](https://www.charitips.com/docs/guides/account-hierarchy-billing.md)
- **Distribution campaign**: a campaign where people vote and a fixed budget is split between charities by the votes (`DISTRIBUTION`). [Customers vote on a budget](https://www.charitips.com/docs/use-cases/vote-on-a-budget.md)
- **Donation**: an amount given to one charity, created by your product on a campaign. [Donation lifecycle](https://www.charitips.com/docs/concepts/donation-lifecycle.md)
- **Donation matching**: your company adds to a donation your user made, at a rate and within caps you set. [Donation matching](https://www.charitips.com/docs/use-cases/donation-matching.md)
- **Donor**: the person behind a donation, with the details needed for an email or a tax receipt in their name. [Create a donor](https://www.charitips.com/docs/api-reference/create-donor.md)
- **Expiry date**: the date after which an unclaimed donation can be automatically assigned to a charity by Charitips. Two months after creation by default, one year at most. [Donation lifecycle](https://www.charitips.com/docs/concepts/donation-lifecycle.md)
- **Face value campaign**: a campaign where each donation has its own amount (`FACE_VALUE`), the default. [Campaigns](https://www.charitips.com/docs/concepts/campaigns.md)
- **Feature**: what your plan includes, such as API access, account hierarchy or custom domain. A call that needs a missing feature answers `402 Plan upgrade required`. [Plans and prerequisites](https://www.charitips.com/docs/overview/plans.md)
- **Fiscal receipt**: the tax receipt Charitips issues to whoever funded a donation, yearly by default. [Billing and fiscal receipts](https://www.charitips.com/docs/concepts/billing-and-receipts.md)
- **Fixed amount campaign**: a campaign with a set budget (`FIXED_AMOUNT`), as opposed to a free amount campaign billed on what is given (`FREE_AMOUNT`). [Campaigns](https://www.charitips.com/docs/concepts/campaigns.md)
- **Invoice**: what Charitips bills (the donations). [List invoices](https://www.charitips.com/docs/api-reference/list-invoices.md)
- **Live**: the environment where donations are real and billed. [Go-live checklist](https://www.charitips.com/docs/get-started/go-live.md)
- **Magic link**: a sign-in link that opens the Charitips dashboard for a user without a password. [Account hierarchy](https://www.charitips.com/docs/concepts/account-hierarchy.md#dashboards-and-users)

## P to W

- **Parent account**: your account when it manages child accounts for your business customers. [Account hierarchy](https://www.charitips.com/docs/concepts/account-hierarchy.md)
- **Payment method**: the card, SEPA mandate or bank transfer your invoices are paid with. Needed on live. [Plans and prerequisites](https://www.charitips.com/docs/overview/plans.md)
- **Permanent campaign**: a campaign with no end date (`PERMANENT`), the default. [Campaigns](https://www.charitips.com/docs/concepts/campaigns.md)
- **Processed**: the status of a donation once it is paid and its funds are transferred to the charity. [Donation lifecycle](https://www.charitips.com/docs/concepts/donation-lifecycle.md)
- **Recurring donation**: a donation repeated at a set frequency, on a recurring campaign, one created with a `frequency`. [Monthly giving by your users](https://www.charitips.com/docs/use-cases/recurring-donations.md)
- **Sandbox**: the test environment, with test credentials and test payment methods. No real money moves. [Sandbox](https://www.charitips.com/docs/get-started/sandbox.md)
- **Subscription**: the monthly plan of your account. Activating a campaign needs an active one. [Plans and prerequisites](https://www.charitips.com/docs/overview/plans.md)
- **Time-limited campaign**: a campaign with an end date (`TIME_BASED`). [Campaigns](https://www.charitips.com/docs/concepts/campaigns.md)
- **uniqueExternalId**: your own id for a donation, vote, donor or recurring donation. Sending a create twice returns `409` instead of a duplicate. [Errors](https://www.charitips.com/docs/api-reference/errors.md)
- **Validation**: an optional review step: on a campaign that asks for it, a claimed donation or a vote waits until you validate it. [Validate a donation](https://www.charitips.com/docs/api-reference/validate-donation.md)
- **Vote**: a share of a fixed budget that a person assigns to a charity, on a distribution campaign. [Create a vote](https://www.charitips.com/docs/api-reference/create-vote.md)
- **Webhook**: a call Charitips sends to your server when something changes, such as a claimed donation or a generated receipt. [Webhooks](https://www.charitips.com/docs/webhooks/configuration.md)
- **Widget**: a ready-made block you embed in your pages, such as charity selection, donor space or admin statistics. [Widgets](https://www.charitips.com/docs/widgets.md)