Glossary

This guide assists you in understanding the essential terminologies and functions of the WaveBL platform.

Important terms to know

Organization

Company/Organization name

Business Unit (BU)

The organization's branches, agencies, or subsidiaries

Business Unit Card (BUC)

Details of a Business Unit. This must be exchanged and confirmed with your trading partners to collaborate.

 

Envelopes Folders

The primary interface to handle the eBL envelopes. 

Create New Envelope To issue eBL and Unique Documents (to be used by Issuers)
Inbox All the received eBL envelopes and documents.
Sending All the envelopes are being sent during the sending process.
Sent All the envelopes that were successfully sent.
Drafts All documents or eBLs that have not yet been sent out.
Archived All envelopes are marked as “Archived”.
Labels Customized tags can be associated with envelopes for sorting and searching. 

 

Envelopes Tool Bar

The following actions can be performed on every eBL envelope: 

Archive To archive an envelope
Forward to email Send a copy to an email for a receiver who is not onboarded to the WaveBL platform.
Forward Forward documents to a draft envelope 
Duplicate Duplicate an envelope including documents 


Top Bar

To search and filter envelopes

All categories

Search by defined categories

Under my possession

Envelopes with eBL that are currently under my possession.

Last action filter

Envelopes with a signature of Amendment / Endorsement / Surrender.

eBL relation filter

Business unit affiliation to the envelope as Shipper or Consignee.

Business Status

Manually filter for internal status: Received, In progress, or Done.

 

Network

The following actions manage the “Address book” and offered to connect with Business Partners. 

Send Invitation

Invite external business partners to your Network.

Accept Invitation

Accept invitations from business.

Starred

Starred Business Cards appear here.

 

Manage Invitation

The following actions can be performed on sent invitations. 

Resend

Resend an invitation.

Verify now

Receive an invite card, and open the Business Unit cards for importing to the “Adress book”

 

Manage Address Book

Manually exchanging cards with business partners actions:

Import external Business Unit Card

Manually import an external business unit card to your address book.

Download my Business unit Card

Manually download your business unit card.

Generate Verification Code

An option to enhanced verification.

 

Address Book

Details of the internal and external Business Unit Cards of the Organization. 

Alias

Customized name of the contact

Name

Organization Name 

Org verification

Status of verification of a Business Unit Card in address book

Verified

Internal Business Units

Manually verified

External Business Units

 

Admin Console 
Actions available by the organizational admin to set up the app, and to the BU admin to set up the BU.

Manage Organization

To create additional Business Units, assign users and email notification settings

Manage Users

To create users, assign them to Business Units and notification settings

Paid eBL report

Reporting off all eBLs paid by the organization 

Manage BU

Business Unit admin creates & removes users, notification settings
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