Glossary

CAPMO

Construction project management platform (Capmo GmbH, Munich) covering site-side work: tickets for tasks and defects, schedules, construction diary, documentation. Integrated with costeo through a connector. See section 4.4.

Connector

A configured integration between costeo and an external system.

Z-ticket

CAPMO ticket type (prefix Z-) carrying an invoice-relevant value such as a retention, correction, or penalty into invoice verification. See section 4.4.4.

LV (Leistungsverzeichnis)

[Service specification / bill of quantities — confirm the wording used in the application]

BoQ / LV

Bill of quantities (Leistungsverzeichnis). The structured list of services and tasks for a trade. The two terms are used interchangeably in the application.

Main BoQ

The primary bill of quantities for a trade. Required before invoicing.

GAEB

German exchange standard for construction tender and BoQ data. costeo can import and export BoQs in this format.

OZ (Ordnungszahl)

Position number identifying an item within a BoQ.

Position

An individual billable line in a BoQ, with quantity, unit, and unit price.

Trade (Gewerk)

A package of work awarded to a contractor, carrying the commercial terms applied to everything billed under it. Called a Ticket Category in earlier documentation.

Contract performance security

Retention against interim invoices (AZ), securing performance of the contract.

Warranty security

Retention applied at final invoice stage, securing the warranty period.

Cash discount (Skonto)

Discount granted for payment within a defined number of days.

AZ (Abschlagszahlung)

Progress or interim payment invoice. Numbered in its own sequence per trade, separately from the invoice number.

Skonto

Cash discount for early payment. Rate and term are set on the trade and applied on the invoice.

Historical baseline

Prior invoices for a trade issued outside costeo, captured once so that AZ numbering and previously-paid totals continue correctly.

New cumulative

Label on the invoice quantity field, indicating the cumulative quantity to date rather than the quantity for the current invoice alone. To be confirmed.

Schlussrechnung

Final invoice.

Amendment

Used in the Add trade dialog for what other screens call a supplement (Nachtrag).

General deduction

A custom percentage-based retention or fee defined on a trade.

Ticket

A defect, damage, bond, penalty, or correction raised against a trade, carrying an amount that affects the payment recommendation when approved.

Ticket type

Category of a ticket, determining how its amount is applied and under which line it appears on the payment calculation.

Project-specific company

A company record created for one project rather than shared through the organisation address book.

Measurement (Aufmaß)

Verification of invoiced quantities against quantities actually measured and accepted on site. Stage 2 of the invoice workflow.

Measurement group

A named grouping of measurement lines beneath a position, each with its own total.

Calculation formula

Arithmetic expression used to derive a measured quantity, retained for audit.

Recommended (net)

Payment amount calculated by the system on the payment calculation.

Transferred (net)

Amount actually paid by the client. Editable even after finalisation.

Performance retention

Deduction applied on a progress invoice under the contract performance security.

Frozen

State of a finalised payment calculation.

GoBD

German principles for the proper keeping and retention of books and records in electronic form. A finalised invoice is immutable in order to comply with them.

Previously paid

Cumulative amount paid to a contractor before the current invoice.

Permission preset

A reusable set of project-level permissions applied to a project member.

Organisation role

Workspace-level role: Owner, Admin, or Member.

Sign-in code

Single-use 6-character code emailed at each sign-in. costeo has no passwords.

Project volume

Target volume entered in Project settings. Note that it is separate from Contract sum and from the Cost planning budget.

Contract sum

Award plus approved supplements, as defined on the Cost tracking screen.

Award

Value of the LV positions.

DIN 276

German standard for classifying building costs into cost groups. Used as the structure for Cost planning and Cost tracking.

Supplement (Nachtrag)

[Confirm definition and the approval flow]

Manual entry

A cost recorded directly in Cost tracking for items outside the LV, such as fees, permits, or insurance.

Snapshot

[Confirm how cost tracking snapshots are created and retained]