Glossary

Each term appears with its Spanish name (the one on screen), its Catalan name and its English name.

Companies and access

Spanish	Catalan	English	Meaning
Empresa	Empresa	Company	TBA, a client or a provider.
Cliente	Client	Client	The company that owns the assets. It holds TBA contracts.
Proveedor	Proveïdor	Provider	The company that does the work under service contracts.
Arrendatario	Arrendatari	Tenant	The company that leases space in an asset.
Organismo de control	Organisme de control (OCA), ECA	Inspection body	The provider authorised to carry out regulatory inspections.
Usuario	Usuari	User	A person from a company who logs in to the app.
Permiso	Permís	Permission	The right to perform one action on one kind of record.
Rol	Rol	Role	A named set of permissions.
Función	Funció	Function	The part the person plays in the contracts.
Contacto principal	Contacte principal	Main contact	The reference person of a client or a provider.
Facility manager (FM)	Facility Manager	Facility Manager	The TBA person responsible for an asset or a contract. The FM validates its documents.
Técnico	Tècnic	Technician	The provider's person who does the maintenance.
Clave de API	Clau d'API	API key	The credential that lets another system use the app.

Contracts

Spanish	Catalan	English	Meaning
Contrato TBA	Contracte TBA	TBA Contract	The framework contract between TBA and a client.
Contrato de servicio	Contracte de servei	Service Contract	The contract with a provider for one service type on one or more assets.
Familia	Família	Service type	The trade of a service: lifts, HVAC, cleaning…
Condiciones	Condicions de contracte	Contract terms	The conditions that all contracts share.
Duración inicial	Vigència	Initial term	The months the contract runs before it renews.
Preaviso	Avís previ	Notice period	How far ahead a party must give notice to stop a renewal.
Límite de preaviso	Límit d'avís previ	Notice deadline	The last day on which the notice still stops the renewal.
En preaviso	En avís previ	In notice	A contract in force whose notice deadline falls within the next 90 days.
Renovación automática	Renovació automàtica	Auto-renewal	The rule that extends the contract if nobody gives notice.
Periodo de renovación	Període de renovació	Renewal period	The months each renewal adds.
Revisión de precio	Pujada	Price increase	How the amount changes each year: CPI, collective agreement, fixed index, negotiated review or none.
Anualidad	Anualitat	Contract year	One year of the contract with its amount and its number of invoices.
Importe anual	Import anual	Annual amount	What the client pays TBA in one year.
Coste anual	Cost anual	Annual cost	What TBA pays the provider in one year, before VAT.
Cuota	Import per factura	Instalment	The year's amount divided by its number of invoices.
Vigente	Vigent	In force	Signed, started and not yet ended.
Finalizado	Finalitzat	Finished	It ran its term without renewing.
Baja	Baixa	Termination	The recorded end of a contract, an asset or a user, with a date and a reason.

Assets and maintenance

Spanish	Catalan	English	Meaning
Activo	Actiu	Asset	A building, or a floor or premises inside one.
Instalación	Instal·lació	Installation	A specific piece of equipment in an asset that a service contract maintains.
Subinstalación	Subinstal·lació	Sub-installation	A part of a larger installation.
Plan de mantenimiento	Pla de manteniment	Maintenance plan	The schedule that generates the preventive maintenance jobs.
Frecuencia	Periodicitat de manteniment	Maintenance frequency	How often a plan generates a maintenance job.
Mantenimiento	Manteniment	Maintenance job	An intervention by a technician: preventive, corrective or predictive.
Fecha prevista	Data prevista	Planned date	The day the maintenance job is expected to happen.
Reprogramación	Reprogramació	Reschedule	A change to the planned date. The app always keeps it.
Historial	Historial	Timeline	Everything that has happened to a maintenance job, in order.
Origen del coste	Origen del cost	Cost origin	Who pays for a corrective job: OPEX, CAPEX, tenant or other.
Cierre	Tancament	Closing	The end of a maintenance job, when the FM validates its documents.
Alerta	Alerta	Alert	A warning about a maintenance job, an inspection or a correction deadline.

Inspections

Spanish	Catalan	English	Meaning
Inspección	Inspecció tècnico-legal (ITL)	Inspection	A regulatory check by an inspection body.
Calendario de inspección	Periodicitat d'inspecció	Inspection schedule	The legal obligation to repeat an inspection.
Próxima inspección	Propera inspecció	Next due date	The date the next inspection falls due.
Banda	Banda	Schedule band	Where a schedule stands today: overdue, < 3 months, on time, correcting, unscheduled or ended.
Resultado	Resultat	Inspection result	Favourable, conditional or unfavourable.
Defecto	Defecte	Defect	A fault that must be fixed.
Gravedad	Gravetat	Severity	The urgency of the worst defect: minor, serious, very serious or immediate.
Fecha límite	Data de caducitat	Correction deadline	The day by which the defects must be corrected.
Caducada	Caducada	Expired	A non-favourable inspection that passed its correction deadline without a correction.
Plan de corrección	Correccions	Correction plan	The repairs that a non-favourable inspection requires.

Documents and validation

Spanish	Catalan	English	Meaning
Documento	Document	Document	A quote, a report, a certificate or an invoice.
Presupuesto	Pressupost	Quote	A provider's priced proposal.
Aprobación del cliente	Aprovació de la propietat	Quote approval	The client's answer to a quote.
Pedido del cliente	Comanda	Purchase order	The client's order number that accompanies an approval.
Informe	Informe	Report	The technician's account of the work.
Certificado	Certificat	Certificate	The document that attests an outcome. For an inspection it is called acta.
Certificado de subsanación	Certificat de resolució	Resolution certificate	The certificate that proves the correction plan is complete.
Factura	Factura	Invoice	What a provider bills for an instalment or for an approved quote.
Abono	Abonament	Credit note	A negative invoice that cancels or corrects another.
Importe previsto	Import previst	Expected amount	What TBA expects an invoice to bill.
Validación	Validació	Validation	The FM's verdict: validated or rejected.
Envío al cliente	Enviament a la propietat	Forwarding	The sending of a validated invoice to the client.
Evaluación	Avaluació del proveïdor	Provider evaluation	The score from 1 to 5 stars that TBA gives a provider.
Valoración global	Avaluació global	Overall score	The average of an evaluation's criteria.