ReferenceGlossary
Glossary
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Centavos | All money is expressed as integer centavos (minor units): ₱1 = 100 centavos, so ₱2,599.00 is 259900. Never send a decimal. Seller Center shows the decimal peso form to humans and converts to centavos under the hood — the same value, a different representation. |
| PSGC | Philippine Standard Geographic Code. Addresses reference region / province / city / barangay by PSGC code. |
| Ship-By-Date (SBD) | The platform deadline by which the seller must ship an order. Drives pickup eligibility and the slaBreached flag. |
| Escrow | The buyer's payment is held until delivery is confirmed and the return window passes, then released to the seller. A DELIVERED order is not yet released — see Order status flow. |
| Payout / settlement | The released, settled amount owed to the seller. Read it from GET /payouts, not from order status. |
| Seller Center | The MallPlus web console where a seller runs their shop. Sellers speak in its tab labels; the Order status flow page has the crosswalk to API status values. |
| Scope | A permission granted per app and consented to per seller (e.g. orders:read). A call outside the granted set returns 403 FORBIDDEN. |
| Sandbox vs production | Separate hosts with separate credential kinds: sandbox mp_… on sandbox.open.mallplus.ph, production mp_live_… on open.mallplus.ph. |
| Nonce | A fresh, unique-per-request value included in the signature to prevent replay. |