Accounts 

These are companies with which a user trades (i.e. customers and suppliers) and are held in the users accounting package (e.g. Sage 50, Sage 200, Microsoft Dynamics NAV etc) 

Credit Guardian Account 

Account created for a user on the Credit Guardian Service to download monitored companies to the Credit Guardian Client 

Credit Guardian Client 

The Credit Guardian application running on the local PC 

Credit Guardian Service 

Internet based service that pulls credit reports from the Experian mainframe and pushes data to the Credit Guardian Client. It also monitors users subscriptions 

Customer 

Existing customer to the user (equivalent to sales) 

Dataset 

Corresponds with a company of a user's accounting package, e.g. Sage 200 may be configured to be multi-company or in other words have multiple datasets 

Monitored Company 

Organisation for which credit report data is downloaded to the Credit Guardian Client. These may be limited or non-limited entities 

Supplier 

Existing supplier of the user (equivalent to purchases) 

Trading 

Refers to both customers and suppliers 

User 

A user of Credit Guardian