A few terms appear throughout this guide. Understanding them takes two minutes and makes everything else obvious.
Tenant
Your dedicated, secure iVendNext environment, reached at your own web address. Throughout this guide we use the example tenant https://acme.ivendnext.com — substitute your own address wherever you see it.
Document & Document Type (DocType)
Everything stored in iVendNext is a document. A single sale is a document; a customer is a document; a product is a document. Documents of the same kind share a Document Type, labelled DocType in the node — for example Sales Order, Customer, Item, Sales Invoice, or Item Price. The node reads the list of available Document Types directly from your tenant, so you always see exactly what your business uses, including any custom ones.
Document Name
Every document has a unique name — its identifier. For a sales order it might be SAL-ORD-2026-00148; for a customer it might simply be Acme Wholesale Ltd. You use the Document Name to fetch, update, or delete a specific record.
Workflow, Node, Execution
A workflow is the automation you build on the n8n canvas. Each box is a node. Every time a workflow runs it is called an execution, and n8n keeps a full log of each one so you can see exactly what happened.
No technical access required
iVendNext is delivered as a fully managed SaaS service. You never touch servers, databases, or infrastructure. Everything in this guide is done from the iVendNext web interface and the n8n canvas using a simple set of API keys.