---
title: "Glossary"
description: "What each term used in FullHouse and these docs means."
---

> Documentation Index
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# Glossary

## Events and scheduling

| Term | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| **Webinar** | Your recording plus everything around it: pages, emails, room, replay. |
| **Challenge** | Several days under one sign-up, with a personal hub for each person. See [Challenges](/challenges). |
| **Day** | One part of a challenge. Each day is a webinar that you set up from the challenge. |
| **Schedule** | A rule that produces start times, such as "every Tuesday at 18:00". |
| **Session** | One actual start time. Everyone who picks it watches together. |
| **Specific dates** | A schedule for the exact dates and times you list. |
| **Recurring** | A schedule on the same days and times each week. |
| **Just-in-time** | A schedule that starts sessions every few minutes during the day. |
| **Instant watch** | A schedule that lets someone start watching as soon as they register. |
| **Blockout date** | A date a schedule won't produce sessions, such as a public holiday. |
| **Registration cutoff** | How long before a session it stops accepting sign-ups. |
| **Minimum wait** | On a just-in-time schedule, the least time someone waits before their session starts. |
| **Late join grace** | How long after a session starts someone can still join. |
| **Join in progress** | Letting people in after the start. They join at the same point as everyone else. |
| **Doors open** | How long before a challenge day's start its hub shows as open. |

## People and links

| Term | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| **Registrant** | Someone who signed up for a webinar, or whom you [added by hand](/run/registrants#add-a-registrant). One record per email address per session. |
| **Attendee** | A registrant who showed up in the live room. |
| **Personal link** | The unique link each registrant gets. It's also called a join link, and opens the waiting room, the room or the end-of-session page depending on the time. |
| **Join token** | The last part of a personal link. [Debug](/workspace/debug) uses it to look someone up. |
| **Added by** | The email address of the person who added a registrant by hand, and confirmed permission to email them. |
| **Access link email** | The email sent when someone already registered tries again, so they can find their link. |
| **Hub** | A challenge attendee's personal page, showing every day. |
| **Ticket** | A day's card on the hub. |
| **URL slug** | The last part of a webinar's public address. If you change it, old links keep working and send people to the new address. |
| **Custom domain** | Your own address for public pages, such as `live.yourbrand.com`. Coming soon, and will depend on your plan. See [Custom domain](/workspace/custom-domain). |
| **ShowTell** | The neutral name used on `showtell.live`, the address of your public pages. |

## In the room

| Term | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| **Room timeline** | The track alongside your video where you place things to appear. |
| **Playhead** | The current position on the timeline. |
| **Moment** | An offer, poll or handout on the timeline. |
| **Offer** | A card promoting what you're selling, shown at a set time. |
| **Poll** | A multiple-choice question shown at a set time. |
| **Starting votes** | Votes a poll starts with so it doesn't look empty. They're left out of your reports. |
| **Handout** | A file or link for attendees, found under the **Resources** tab. |
| **Scheduled chat** | Pre-written chat messages that appear at set moments. Also called simulated chat. |
| **Shared chat** | Real-time chat that everyone in the room can see. |
| **Private chat** | The mode in which someone's chat message is visible only to them and you. |
| **Q&A** | Private questions to you, which you or AI can answer. |
| **Questions inbox** | The **Questions** tab, where those questions arrive. |
| **Attendee counter** | The "watching" number on the room, and in the shared chat header. It's a simulated figure you configure, not a live count. |
| **Transparency note** | A line you can show in the room, saying some messages may be from previous sessions. |
| **Waiting room** | Where people wait before the session starts, with a countdown. Also called the lobby. |
| **End-of-session page** | What attendees see when a session finishes. |
| **Replay** | The recording of the session, which people can watch afterwards on their own schedule. |
| **Feedback form** | The "How was it?" rating and comment attendees can leave after watching. |

## Video

| Term | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| **Hosted video** | A video you uploaded to FullHouse. |
| **Source health** | The checks FullHouse runs on your video. |
| **HLS** | A streaming format, usually a link ending in `.m3u8`. |
| **Fast start** | An MP4 arranged so it can begin playing before the whole file has loaded. |
| **WebVTT** | The caption file format FullHouse uses (`.vtt`). |

## Sending and connecting

| Term | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| **FullHouse Send** | The built-in email sending that works without any setup, up to your plan's daily limit. |
| **Own provider** | Your Resend or Mailgun account connected for sending, which removes that limit. |
| **Merge tag** | A placeholder such as `{{first_name}}`, replaced in each email. See [Merge tags](/reference/merge-tags). |
| **Automation** | A rule that does something in a connected tool when an attendee does something. See [Automations](/webinars/automations). |
| **Webhook endpoint** | A web address that receives events from FullHouse. See [Webhooks](/connect/webhooks). |
| **Delivery** | One attempt to send an event to an endpoint. |
| **Signing secret** | The value used to prove a webhook really came from FullHouse. |
| **Widget** | The script that puts your sign-up form on any website. See [Embed widget](/connect/embed-widget). |
| **MCP** | Model Context Protocol, the standard that plugs AI tools into software. See [AI agents](/mcp). |
| **Connected app** | An AI tool you approved through the FullHouse approval screen. |
| **Access token** | A long secret for AI tools that can't sign in. |

## Account

| Term | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| **Workspace** | The container for your events, brand, email sender, connections and files. |
| **Team** | Everyone who can work in a workspace, each with their own login. See [Team](/workspace/team). |
| **Owner** | The person whose account a workspace belongs to. Only they can change the team or delete the account. |
| **Member** | Someone invited to a workspace's team. They can do everything else in it. |
| **Plan** | Sets your storage, your FullHouse Send daily limit, and MCP access. |
| **Passkey** | A way to sign in with your device's fingerprint, face or PIN rather than a password. |
| **Recovery code** | A one-time code for signing in if you lose your two-factor device. |

Source: https://docs.meetfullhouse.com/reference/glossary/index.mdx