Glossary

Every EVE and app term used in these guides, in one place.

Last updated 2026-11-07

1. EVE Online and ESI

Terms from the game and from CCP's services that the app uses.

Adjusted price: CCP's own average price for an item, published by EVE. The game uses it (not market prices) to work out how much starting a job costs. Shown as CCP adjusted price on an item's panel.
Cost index (system cost index): A percentage per solar system that rises the more industry is done there. Part of a job's install cost. Each job keeps the index it was started with.
Downtime: EVE's daily server restart at 11:00 EVE time. The clock at the top shows DT in …, and Downtime for the first 15 minutes after 11:00. The daily stock snapshot runs after it.
EIV (estimated item value): The value of a job's inputs at adjusted prices. EVE bases the install cost on it.
ESI: EVE's official interface for apps. With your permission the app reads your jobs, skills, assets, wallet, contracts, mining and orders through it. See Sync and ESI.
EVE SSO: CCP's login page. You log in there, and the app never sees your password. See Logging in and your account.
EVE time: The game's clock, the same as UTC. Every time in the app is EVE time; hover a time to see it exactly, and turn on local time in tooltips under Settings→Display.
Install cost: The ISK EVE charges to start a job. The planner estimates it (marked est.); the real figure comes from ESI once the job runs.
Multibuy: EVE's window for buying many items at once from a pasted list. The app can copy a shopping list in its format.
NPC station: A station run by the game, such as Jita IV - Moon 4. Its market orders are public. Compare structure.
Omega: A paid EVE subscription. Alpha (free) characters cannot run reactions.
PI (planetary industry): Making products on planets. Record what you make with Record→PI output. See Hauls and PI.
Customs tax: The tax for exporting goods from a planet. The app works out the cost of your PI products from it: a base value per product tier times your customs rate.
Portion: The smallest amount of ore that can be refined, usually 100 units. Anything under one portion stays as ore.
Re-authorise: Log in to EVE again with a character to renew the app's access: after a password change, when access was removed in EVE, or when the app needs a new permission. See Characters.
Scopes: The permissions you approve at login, such as reading industry jobs. All of them are read-only. A character missing a scope cannot sync that data until it is re-authorised.
SDE (static data export): CCP's data on every item, recipe and structure. An admin imports it for everyone.
Security band: How safe a solar system is: High (0.5 and up), Low (0.1 to 0.4), Null (0.0 and below) or Wormhole. It changes how strong a structure's rig bonuses are.
Structure: A player-owned station (for example an Athanor or Tatara). Its market is private: only characters with docking access can read it.
Token: What EVE gives the app after you log in, so it can keep reading a character's data. The app stores it encrypted.

2. Reactions, slots and facilities

Facility: A structure you registered on Facilities, with its services, rigs and taxes, so the app can work out times, materials and yields. See Facilities.
Formula: The blueprint for a reaction: what goes in, what comes out, and how long it takes.
Job states: Running, Ready (to deliver), Paused, Delivered, Cancelled and Reverted, as EVE reports them. See Pipeline and jobs.
Paused: The structure went offline. The job keeps its slot and carries on when the structure is back.
Reaction: An industry job that combines moon materials (and other inputs) into a product in a refinery structure.
Reaction groups: Families of formulas: Composite (intermediate, advanced, alchemy, unrefined mineral), Hybrid, Biochemical and Molecular-Forged. Groups switched off under Settings→Reaction groups are still tracked but not offered in the Planner.
Reaction slot: Room for one running reaction job. Each character has 1 + its Mass Reactions level + its Advanced Mass Reactions level. A slot frees only when the job is delivered. See Slots.
Ready to deliver: The job's timer has ended but it has not been delivered in game. It still takes up its slot.
Remote range: How many jumps away a character can start reactions: 5 per level of Remote Reactions.

3. Stock and records

Adjustment: A hand-made correction to stock, with a reason: a loss, a gift, a fix. Record→Stock adjustment.
Compression: Packing ore, ice or gas into a smaller compressed form. Recorded so the stock and its cost follow.
Contract review: Telling the app what a contract was (Purchase, Sale, Transfer, Refine out, Refine return or Ignored) so it moves stock correctly. See Contracts.
Freight: What it costs to move goods, in ISK per m³ (Settings → Costing) or a fixed amount. Added to the cost of the stock you haul.
Haul: Moving materials between structures or characters. See Hauls and PI.
Holdings: What your characters hold according to EVE. See Stock.
Lot: One parcel of stock the app recorded (bought, mined, refined, reacted, hauled, entered), with its own cost per unit. See Lots.
Opening balance: Stock you already held when you started using the app, entered once with what it cost. See Getting started.
Reconciliation: Comparing the app's lots with what EVE says you hold, to find what was not recorded. See Reconciliation.
Record menu: The Record button at the top right: forms for everything ESI cannot see. See Recording.
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4. Costs, value and prices

How the app turns records into money figures. The full explanation is in How costs and profit work.

Book value: What your stock cost you, from its lots.
Buy, Sell, Split price: Buy is the highest buy order (what you get selling to buy orders now). Sell is the lowest sell order (what you would list at). Split is halfway between, the default.
Cash margin: A job's output value minus what you actually paid for its inputs, install cost and overhead. Includes what you saved through cheap contracts or your own mining. See Margins.
Contract discount: The market value of what you bought on contracts minus what you paid for it.
FIFO (first in, first out): When a job or sale uses stock, the oldest lots are used first, at their cost. See Lots.
Fallback market: Where the app takes a price when your valuation market has none for an item. Jita 4-4 unless changed.
Market value: What stock is worth now: quantity × the price at the chosen market.
Overhead: Extra cost per job. It is 0 unless you fuel the structure yourself.
Posting: Taking a job's inputs from your lots when EVE reports it, and adding its output as a new lot when it is delivered. See Posting.
Pending, Posted, Blocked, Ignored: A job's posting status. Pending: waiting to be posted. Posted: done. Blocked: could not be posted, usually because the inputs are not in your lots or the structure is not registered; the Inbox shows how to fix it (see ). : never costed, because it was started before , was cancelled before posting, or is not a reaction or manufacturing job.

5. Planning

Plan: A saved result from the Planner: what to make, the jobs, and who starts what. Its status is Draft, Scheduled, In progress, Done or Archived. See Plans.
Planned job: One job in a plan: Planned, Started and Delivered as EVE sees it happen, or Skipped.
Critical path: The shortest time a plan can finish in if every job could start the moment its inputs are ready, with unlimited free slots.
Serial time: How long a plan takes with every job done one after another.
Raw inputs, shortfall: Everything a plan needs from outside, and how much of it you do not hold yet: your shopping list.
Schedule: The plan spread over your characters' real slots. See Planner.
In-game checklist: A saved plan's list of exactly what to install, where, by whom and how many runs.
Next login: Your usual login time, set under Settings→Display. The Planner can size jobs to finish by then.

6. Accounts and the app

Account: Your private space: your characters and everything recorded for them. See Logging in and your account.
Action strip: The line under the header: ready to deliver, free slots, blocked, in inbox and at refiner, each linking to the page that deals with it.
Admin: Someone who runs the app: accounts, invites, shared markets and sign-up. See Administration.
Inbox item: Something the app needs you to decide or fix: Shortage, Re-auth, Contract, Refine, Stock gap or Other. See Inbox.
Instance setting: A setting shared by every account, such as who may sign up. Only an admin can change it.
Invite: A single-use link from an admin that lets one person create an account.
Live: The dot at the top: Live means pages update by themselves as jobs start, finish and sync.
Main character: The character whose name labels your account.
Session: One browser logged in to your account. It lasts 30 days from its last use.
Sync: Reading fresh data from EVE on a timer, per character and kind of data. See Sync and ESI.
Ticket: A bug report, feature request or question sent to the admins with Feedback. See Feedback and tickets.

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