Glossary

Reference glossary for digital-goods distributors and suppliers — API, payments, taxes, wholesale operations.

30 terms in glossary

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API KeyAPI: A secret string passed in the Authorization: Bearer … header to authenticate API requests. FoxReload keys are issued in the dashboard and shown only once — store them as server-side environment variables.
ArbitrageBIZ: Buying a digital code in one region and selling to a customer in another to profit from regional price gaps (e.g. PSN Turkey codes resold to RU customers). Legality varies by platform ToS and tax jurisdiction.

B2BBIZ: Business-to-business — selling to companies (resellers, marketplaces, fintechs) rather than end consumers. FoxReload is a B2B-only platform: every account is a verified business entity.

CDNTECH: Content Delivery Network — geographically distributed servers that cache static assets and edge-render pages near end users. Critical for sub-second TTFB on global reseller frontends.
ChargebackPAY: A forced reversal of a card payment initiated by the buyer through their issuing bank. Distributors absorb the loss when the goods were already delivered. Industry-average B2C digital chargeback rate is ~1.8%.

DemopricesFOX: FoxReload’s public wholesale price list at /demoprices — 900+ SKUs with live USD/EUR/RUB pricing, no signup. Used by prospective distributors for fit assessment and procurement teams for spot-checks.

eSIMPROD: Embedded SIM — software-only mobile profile installed via QR code. FoxReload distributes eSIM data plans for 150+ countries from providers like Airalo, useful for travel-tech and B2B telecom resellers.

FX HedgeFX: Locking in a currency exchange rate to protect margin between wholesale invoice (typically USD) and retail receipts (local currency). Common methods: forwards, options, USDT-denominated settlement.

Gift CardPROD: A prepaid voucher redeemable on a specific platform (Steam, Apple, Google Play, etc.). Region-bound: a US Apple gift card cannot be redeemed on a Turkish Apple ID.
GSTTAX: Goods and Services Tax — India’s federal indirect tax (18% on digital services). FoxReload partners selling to Indian end customers must register for GSTIN when turnover crosses ₹20 lakh.

HMACAPI: Hash-based Message Authentication Code. FoxReload signs webhook payloads with HMAC-SHA256; receivers verify the X-FoxReload-Signature header to ensure events originated from us and weren’t tampered with.

IdempotencyAPI: A property where repeating an operation has the same effect as performing it once. Pass an Idempotency-Key header (UUIDv4) on order-create calls so retries after timeouts don’t double-charge or double-deliver.

KYBCOMP: Know Your Business — onboarding-time verification of a corporate counterparty (registration certificate, beneficial-owner ID, bank statement). FoxReload runs KYB on every distributor and supplier before activating live access.

LatencyAPI: Time from request initiation to response or fulfilment. FoxReload order delivery: P50 = 12s, P95 = 45s, P99 = 90s. Anything beyond 5 minutes is auto-failed and refunded.

MarkupBIZ: The percentage added to wholesale cost to derive retail price. Typical digital-goods range: 15–35% depending on category competition and FX exposure. Calculated as (retail − wholesale) / wholesale × 100%.

Net-15PAY: A B2B payment term: the buyer pays the supplier within 15 days of invoice issuance. FoxReload defaults to Net-15 for verified suppliers and supports USD wire, SEPA, and USDT settlement.

Rate LimitAPI: Cap on requests per time window per API key. FoxReload default: 100 req/min. Enterprise tier: 1,000 req/min. Excess returns HTTP 429; clients should retry with exponential backoff (30s, 60s, 120s).
ResellerBIZ: A business that buys digital goods wholesale and sells to end customers under its own brand. FoxReload’s primary distributor archetype: independent B2C stores, marketplaces, gaming aggregators.

SandboxAPI: A non-production FoxReload environment at api-sandbox.foxreload.com returning fake codes with the same response shape. Used for integration testing without spending real wholesale balance.
SBP / СБПPAY: Система Быстрых Платежей — Russian instant interbank payment system using phone numbers as routing addresses. Settles in seconds with ≤0.5% MDR. Supported by FoxReload for RUB-denominated distributor top-ups.
SKUCAT: Stock Keeping Unit — a unique identifier for a sellable item. In FoxReload catalog: e.g. psn-tr-50 for a ₺50 PSN Turkey card. Includes region, denomination, and platform metadata.
SSGTECH: Static Site Generation — pre-rendering pages at build time. FoxReload library pages target SSG so they ship as static HTML, deliverable from any CDN edge with sub-100ms TTFB.
Stale-while-revalidateCDN: A Cache-Control directive allowing a CDN to serve a stale cached response while refreshing it in the background. Used on FoxReload library pages with s-maxage=600, stale-while-revalidate=86400.

TTFBPERF: Time To First Byte — time from request start until the first byte of HTML reaches the browser. Critical Core Web Vital input; <200ms is excellent, <500ms is good. CDN edge SSG drops it to <100ms.

UC (Unknown Cash)CAT: PUBG Mobile in-game currency. Delivered by player UID (not account credentials). Most-purchased denominations: 60, 300, 660, 1800, 3850, 8100 UC. Region-locked: SEA UC ≠ KR UC ≠ TW UC.
UPIPAY: Unified Payments Interface — India’s instant interbank payment rail using VPAs (e.g. name@bank). Handles 75% of Indian digital-goods transactions with 0–0.5% MDR.
USDTPAY: A USD-pegged stablecoin (Tether). Settled on Tron (TRC-20, ~$1 fee) or Ethereum (ERC-20, $5–20 fee). FoxReload’s preferred B2B rail for cross-border settlement — typically clears in 1–5 minutes.

VATTAX: Value Added Tax — EU/UK consumption tax on digital services. For cross-border B2C sales the EU OSS scheme lets you file once for all 27 member states above a €10,000 threshold.
Volume TierBIZ: A pricing band keyed to monthly purchase volume. FoxReload tiers: standard ($0–5k), -1.5% rebate ($5–25k), -3% ($25–100k), -4.5% ($100–500k), custom ($500k+). Settled monthly.

WebhookAPI: A server-to-server HTTP callback fired when an event occurs (e.g. order delivered). FoxReload webhooks are POSTs with HMAC-SHA256 signatures, retried with backoff on non-2xx for up to 24 hours.