Collections, workspaces, scans, analyses, briefs, quick looks. What each word means in Swops.
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The words you will see most
Word
What it means
Contact
A person you met, with their details, priority and notes. Headings sometimes say “connection”.
Scan
Reading a business card or badge from a photo. Also the unit of allowance: one card read successfully uses one scan.
Collection
A list of contacts for one event, client group or occasion. Private in your personal space, Shared in a company workspace.
Current collection
The collection new scans and manual contacts are saved to. It changes when you pick another one, open one from the Collections page or create one. See Choose where new contacts go.
Archive / Restore
Make a collection read-only (still viewable and exportable) / make it editable again.
Workspace
Where collections, contacts, research and allowance live. There are two kinds:
Personal space
Your private workspace. Everyone has one. The free trial and Solo live here.
Company workspace
A shared workspace for a team. Team Pass and Business live here.
Owner / Member
The person who created and manages a company workspace / a colleague in it.
Priority
Your own assessment of a contact: Hot, Warm, Cold or Unrated. “High priority” means Hot.
Conversation notes
Free text on a contact.
Research words
Word
What it means
Analysis
The unit of allowance for researching one business: Analyse business · 1 analysis.
Business analysis
The research feature, and the card on a contact that holds its result.
Brief
The saved research on a company. A dated snapshot, with sources.
Quick look
The first, short brief that appears within seconds while the full analysis runs.
Full analysis
The complete research run, usually a minute or two, that replaces the quick look.
In more depth
The closing section of a full brief, when the sources allow: how the company makes money, its market and where it is heading.
Relevance to you
The brief section on where your offer could matter to that company. Needs company context.
Company context
A short, confirmed description of your own company, per workspace.
Research again
Fresh research on a business that already has a brief. It uses one analysis.
Intelligence
The list of a workspace’s saved briefs.
Plans and billing words
Word
What it means
Allowance
The scans and analyses a workspace can use. Teams share one allowance.
Top-up
A one-time purchase of extra scans or analyses, valid 12 months.
The 30 days after paid access ends: you can view and export, not add or change.
Link
Link, LLC, an affiliate of Stripe, is the merchant of record for Swops purchases: it charges your payment method and sends receipts and invoices. See Who is Link, and why is it on my bill?.
Sharing words
Word
What it means
My card
Your own details as a QR code and a contact file.
Contact file (.vcf)
A standard file any phone can save as a contact.
Follow-up email
When you switch it on, an email Swops sends with your details right after you scan someone’s card (Team Pass and Business).
Add to home screen
Installing Swops on your phone from the browser.
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