Technical and operations teams use the same words differently. This glossary defines how phoneveriflo uses important data-quality, API, cache, and workflow terms.
Use these definitions consistently across UI, docs, exports, and support.
An international phone-number representation beginning with + and country code. Formatting alone is not validation.
A cleaned representation used for matching, deduplication, and supported verification workflows.
The same normalized value appearing more than once in the relevant preflight scope.
A customer-supplied row or record identifier used to reconcile results back to the source system.
Make time and uncertainty explicit.
A request the phoneveriflo job sends for new processing rather than serving an eligible phoneveriflo cache entry.
A reusable result found under the configured service/schema/scope and still inside its TTL.
The timestamp when the underlying result was originally produced.
Time-to-live: how long an eligible cached result may be reused under the configured policy, capped at 90 days in this application.
Carrier and line-type fields are metadata returned by supported lookup services; they are not identity or ownership proof.
Idempotency prevents accidental duplicate writes; a webhook is a signed server-to-server event; a job is the first-party asynchronous unit of work; a normalized result is the customer-facing schema independent of the upstream provider.
No. It describes formatting/representation, not reachability, ownership, or current service status.
No. It means the result was originally checked earlier and is being reused within a configured TTL. The checked time should always remain visible.
A network classification such as mobile or landline when returned by a supported carrier lookup.
A request-safety pattern that allows a client to retry a write without unintentionally creating duplicate work when supported by the API.
Use descriptive internal links so users and search engines can understand how these topics connect.
Start with a preflight, review duplicates, cache eligibility, fresh checks, and the frozen maximum quote.