AUTHORITATIVE NEVODESK GUIDE Reviewed August 14, 2026

NevoDesk glossary

Definitions for the most important NevoDesk, Nevo, scheduling, PBX, payment, and provider terms.

Core terms

  • Nevo: the customer-facing AI front desk.
  • NevoDesk: the business workspace, rules, records, and operational control plane.
  • NevoGuide: the account-user guidance assistant grounded in this Help Center.
  • Workspace: one business account containing locations, users, configuration, providers, and records.
  • Primary outcome: the one main operational result a customer journey is designed to create.
  • Supporting capability: an additional action that can assist the primary outcome without replacing it.

Calls and PBX

  • Intent or caller scenario: a described customer need Nevo recognizes and maps to a route.
  • Department: an operational ownership group.
  • Destination: a person, extension, ring group, queue, voicemail box, callback, or other supported endpoint.
  • Ring group: a set of attendants tried under one ringing strategy.
  • Queue: provider-controlled waiting and member distribution requiring live call status events.
  • Fallback: the next safe action when a route cannot complete.

Scheduling and payments

  • Capability: the service eligibility required for a professional to receive a booking.
  • Parent blocker: business or location closure that child schedules cannot override.
  • Occupied interval: preparation buffer + service duration + cleanup/travel buffer.
  • Availability hold: a short-lived reservation of a professional and occupied interval before confirmation.
  • Merchant of record: the business responsible for the customer transaction.
  • Application fee: the NevoDesk fee routed from an eligible connected-account payment.
  • Reconciliation: comparing intended transactions, provider objects, and financial records without hiding differences.
Source-of-truth policy

This article is part of the same maintained knowledge corpus used by NevoGuide. Live provider evidence and saved workspace configuration remain authoritative for your account’s current operational state.