Product Terminology

Modified on Wed, 15 Mar, 2023 at 1:43 PM

Subjects, Cases, Processes, all new words with our updated system. But what do they mean?


Customer: An organisation who has a live service agreement with Personnel Checks

Subject: People, e.g. Applicants/Employees, that you’ll run DBS & Other activities on. 

User: An individual with a login to the system

Role: A set of permissions attached to a user, for example: 

  • Agent - somebody responsible for day-to-day compliance processes
  • Admin - somebody responsible for administering the users in their customer account
  • DBS-verifier - an Agent/Admin with the extra permission to verify Cases
  • Payment Manager - Someone who can authorise payments

A User can have multiple Roles, and we recommend that all Users have "Agent" as a minimum, then add other roles from there.


Case: A working file that holds the Case Activities for Subject. A Case is started on a Process for a Subject. 

Case Activity: Individual activities in a Case task such as a DBS Application 

Outstanding Activities Case Activities that require action from yourselves (e.g. ID Verification) 

Decision: The recorded judgement of a Case or Case Activity after data has been obtained

Process: Commonly named by Job Title, a collection of relevant compliance requirements.

Cycle: Attached to a Process, A cycle determines the interval at which subscriptions will create new cases

Subscription: The relationship between a Subject and a Cycle, has dates for first/last ran etc

Key Result: The salient points from a case activity, e.g. for a DBS check was it clear, and what is the certificate number

DBS-US: The DBS Update Service

Flag: A request for human attention on an another object in the system, e.g. Non-Clear DBS, can be cleared & re-activated.



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