Before you start #
Website and editing #
Account: your HIVE sign-in. Workspace: the selected business context and its permissions. Website: the pages and visitor address managed in that workspace.
Template: a starting design. Brand Kit/Brand Guide: your approved identity, colors, typography and logo guidance. Studio: the visual website editor.
Draft: saved private work. Preview: an inspection of a draft or selected version. Revision: a retained saved version. Publication: the version explicitly made available to visitors.
Pages+: additional editorial-page allowance for one selected website. SEO: search-engine optimization—clear page information that helps search engines understand content, without guaranteeing rankings.
Domains #
Domain: a name such as yourbusiness.com. Registrar: the company where it is registered. DNS host: the company managing its routing records.
Root/apex: the bare domain. www: a subdomain. TXT: a text record often used for verification. MX: a record used for email delivery. HTTPS: an encrypted web connection with a valid certificate.
Store operations #
Product: a parent listing. Variant: a sellable option combination. SKU: your internal stock identifier. Reserved: stock held for an unfinished checkout.
Payment captured: the processor has confirmed the relevant money capture. Fulfillment: preparing/sending goods. Refund: returning money. Restocking: deliberately returning units to available inventory.
Postage wallet: the merchant-funded balance used for labels. Tax jurisdiction: an authority/area for a tax allocation. Remittance: sending collected tax to the authority; not included in basic calculation.
Simulation: local fake-provider behavior. Sandbox: a provider’s test environment. Live: real operations, separately authorized and enabled.
Tools and reporting #
MCP: a protocol an agent client uses to call authorized tools. HIVE’s current design connection is a local developer preview.
Dynamic QR: an image containing a stable scan URL that forwards to an editable destination. UTM: optional campaign query fields on a destination URL.
Cutoff: the moment a report’s matching dataset is fixed. Reporting timezone: the time basis used to group activity. Estimated unique activity: a privacy-limited estimate, not an identified person.
What success looks like #
You can connect HIVE’s terms to the actual task you want to perform.
If something goes wrong #
- If a status remains unclear, ask support with the exact visible wording.
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