Product Terminology¶
This page is the single source of truth for official Appcircle product and module names. All customer-facing surfaces (status page, API docs, UI, marketing, support) must use the customer-facing terminology listed here, not internal microservice names.
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This page is a follow-up to PL-201, which aligned the status.appcircle.io component names with the terminology used on docs.appcircle.io. When you add or rename a customer-visible component, check it against this page first.
Why it matters¶
Customers do not know our internal service names. Showing internal naming on customer-visible surfaces confuses readers, hurts trust, and makes our products harder to search for. Consistent terminology across every surface keeps the product coherent and reduces support load.
Internal → customer-facing name mapping¶
These are the renames agreed in PL-201. Use the customer-facing name on every customer-visible surface. Not all of these are modules: some are features or actions (for example, Webhooks, In-app Notifications, Re-sign Binary, Testing Portal, Appcircle MCP Server). The official module list is in the next section.
| Internal Name | Customer-Facing Name |
|---|---|
| Web Hooks | Webhooks |
| Build Management | Build |
| Signing Identity Management | Signing Identities |
| Testing Distribution Management | Testing Distribution |
| Publish Management | Publish |
| Enterprise App Store Management | Enterprise App Store |
| Resign Binary | Re-sign Binary |
| Testing Distribution Portal | Testing Portal |
| Web App Notifications | In-app Notifications |
| MCP Gateway | Appcircle MCP Server |
Official module names¶
The official Appcircle modules, as documented on docs.appcircle.io:
| Module | Documentation |
|---|---|
| Build | https://docs.appcircle.io/build |
| Signing Identities | https://docs.appcircle.io/signing-identities |
| Testing Distribution | https://docs.appcircle.io/testing-distribution |
| Publish | https://docs.appcircle.io/publish-to-stores-module |
| Enterprise App Store | https://docs.appcircle.io/enterprise-app-store |
| Appcircle CodePush | https://docs.appcircle.io/code-push |
Naming notes¶
These customer-facing names are the short, surface-level labels (for example, status page components). The official documentation sometimes uses a longer canonical form. Both refer to the same product; prefer the form that fits the surface, and never use the internal name.
- Build is labelled "Build Module" in the docs heading ("Build Module Overview"). Use "Build" as the short component/module label.
- Publish is titled "Publish to Stores" in the docs. Use "Publish" as the short label and "Publish to Stores" when the full module name is needed.
- Signing Identities (plural) is the module name. Body text in the docs occasionally says "Signing Identity module" (singular); prefer the plural form.
- Re-sign Binary is the canonical action label (hyphenated, capital B). The Testing Distribution variant appears as "Re-sign Binaries" (plural). Do not use "Resign" without the hyphen.
- Webhooks is one word (capital W). Do not write "Web Hooks".
- In-app Notifications uses a lowercase "a" in "app". Do not write "In-App Notifications".
- Appcircle MCP Server keeps "MCP" in all caps and all three words capitalised.
- Appcircle CodePush is written as two words, "Appcircle" plus "CodePush", where "CodePush" is a single word with a capital C and a capital P. Do not write "Code Push" or "Codepush".