Understand neobank terms
Use these definitions when reading the API, architecture, and deployment guides.action required
action required
An operation state that requires the customer to complete a browser approval on the exact trusted Perflo application origin.
activity
activity
A customer-wide projection of safely classifiable cash and payment rows from agent and Perfolio transaction feeds. It is not a fiat-account ledger.
confirmation intent
confirmation intent
A short-lived, one-use local record that binds fresh customer authentication to the normalized payload of a sensitive action.
fake adapter
fake adapter
The deterministic, network-free adapter allowed in development and test.
indeterminate
indeterminate
An operation state used when Perflo may have accepted a provider write but the wrapper lacks definitive evidence. The worker never resubmits it.
live adapter
live adapter
The adapter that uses each customer’s Vault-encrypted Perflo device session against five exact reviewed HTTPS origins. It is the only production adapter.
mandate
mandate
Customer authority bound to one beneficiary, United States dollar caps, payment count, expiry, approved clients or rules, and atomic local rolling limits.
operation
operation
The asynchronous result record for every provider mutation. It stores safe request policy, resource links, state, uncertainty, and reconciliation scheduling.
outbox
outbox
A PostgreSQL event stored in the same transaction as an operation and idempotency record. A unique topic and aggregate pair prevents duplicate delivery.
Perflo capability request
Perflo capability request
A requested upstream contract improvement. Current requests cover customer-bound Know Your Customer sessions, fiat provisioning and ledgers, executable remittance, idempotency, signed events, mandate enforcement, and card lifecycle.
provider binding
provider binding
The generation identifier that binds local resources and operations to one customer Perflo connection. A later connection cannot reuse earlier resources.
recipient grant
recipient grant
Perflo authority binding a recipient destination, chain, United States dollar caps, payment count, and expiry. Browser approval activates the grant.
Transit key
Transit key
The derived Vault key named
neobank-perflo-credentials, used to encrypt customer and operation provider context before storage in PostgreSQL.