Glossary

Konkat uses everyday site language plus a few app words. This glossary explains each term as it is used in Konkat, with a link to the article where it matters most.

Site and construction terms#

Term	Meaning in Konkat
BHK	Bedroom-hall-kitchen — the configuration of a flat, e.g. 2 BHK or 3 BHK. Set per unit in the units table.
BOQ (Bill of quantities)	The list of work quantities for the project. Konkat has a manual Bill of quantities tab and an Auto BOQ worked out from the plan.
Brass	A volume unit common for sand and aggregate in India: 100 cubic feet, about 2.83 cum. Konkat’s standard conversion is 1 Brass = 2.83 Cum.
Bag	The usual counting unit for cement (50 kg bag).
Carpet area	The usable floor area inside a unit’s walls; stored next to the (saleable) area on each unit.
Cellar (B1, B2)	Basement floors. Typed as B1, B2 and stored as floors −1, −2.
Centring / shuttering	The formwork for slabs, beams and columns. Often a separate task or done by a subcontractor such as Mahesh Shuttering Works.
Challan	The delivery note that comes with material. Its number is entered when you receive a delivery.
Cum	Cubic metre — the unit for concrete, sand and aggregate quantities.
Curing	Keeping concrete or plaster wet after casting. Usually an ancillary task that shows as a reminder.
Gunta / Guntha, Cent, Acre	Land area units supported for units and plots; Konkat shows the sq ft equivalent.
SFT / SY	Square feet and square yards — area units for units. Konkat converts other units to sq ft.
Slab cycle	The repeating set of steps to build one floor’s slab: marking, steel, shuttering, concreting, curing and so on. Usually added from a template for each floor.
Stilt (floor 0)	The parking floor at ground level. Floor 0 is called “Stilt” (short label S) by default; the name can be changed to Ground or anything else.

Planning terms#

Term	Meaning in Konkat
Ancillary task	A supporting task such as curing or debris clearing. It appears in Plan for next as a Reminder and doesn’t need sign-off by default.
Gantt / Plan	The chart of tasks as bars on a timeline. The dashed bar is the original plan; the dark part of a bar is days worked so far. See Gantt chart.
Group task / sub task	A task that contains other tasks. Its dates follow its sub tasks. See Sub tasks and order.
Link (dependency)	“This task comes after that one”. A delay on the first pushes everything linked after it. See Links and dependencies.
Original / Revised / Used days	Original = planned duration; Revised = changed duration; Used = days worked so far (days with a log). Extra days from delays are added on top.
Overrun	A task that has used more days than its planned (or revised) duration. Shown in red.
Per floor / Per flat	Whether progress on a task is recorded floor by floor or flat by flat (and room by room).
Plan for next	The dashboard list of tasks starting soon whose earlier work is finished. See Dashboard.
Reason for change	Once a project has started, moving dates asks for a reason, kept as plan history. See Plan changes.
Template	A reusable list of linked steps (e.g. a slab cycle) you add to the plan for chosen floors and dates.

Site record terms#

Term	Meaning in Konkat
Snapshot	A daily log entry you can send any time — what’s happening now, with photos. Many per day are fine.
End-of-day (EOD) summary	The day’s closing daily log for a task. Only one per task per day.
Workers sheet	One sheet per site per day: how many people of each worker type were on site and which tasks they worked on. See Workers sheet.
Worker type	A category of labour, e.g. Head mason, Wage worker (female), Electrician. Edited in Project setup → Worker categories.
General site work	People on the Workers sheet who are not booked to any task.
Live / Uploaded photo	Live = taken with Konkat’s camera; Uploaded = chosen from the gallery. Reports show which.
Delay	Days lost with a cause (e.g. late brick supply, rain). Can be added to the task so later work moves. See Delays.
QC concern / rectification	A problem found in a quality check, assigned to someone to fix by a date; the fix is the rectification, then QC closes it. See Quality checks.
Sign-off	Approval of finished work by an allowed person. Until then the task shows Awaiting sign-off. Rejection sends it back to in progress. See Sign-off.
Site logbook	Everything recorded on the project, newest first. See Site logbook.
Correction	A change to or deletion of an earlier or someone else’s daily log or workers sheet. Needs permission and a reason; the old version is kept in the corrections record. See Corrections.

Stock and purchase terms#

Term	Meaning in Konkat
Site store	The store every project has automatically, e.g. “Sunrise Residency — site store”. Daily-log material is taken from here.
Central store / yard	A shared store such as “Central Yard — Medchal”, added under Stock → Stores. See Stores.
Stock in / Used on site	Material arriving (outside a purchase order), and material consumed on site.
Transfer	Moving material between stores, e.g. central yard → site store.
Count correction	A + or − entry to match stock to a physical count.
Counted in / Bought in	Each material is counted in one unit (Bag, Kg, Cum, Nos) and may be bought in another (Brass, Ton, Box) with a conversion. See Materials and units.
Material request	Site asking for material. An approver sends it from a store or buys it. See Material requests.
Reorder level	The stock level below which a material is flagged to reorder.
Lead time	How many days a supplier usually takes to deliver a material. The forecast flags a material if it will run out within its lead time + 3 days.
Stock forecast	Daily usage, days left, run-out date and upcoming need per material. See Stock forecast.
Confirm materials	Marking a task’s materials as available before it starts. Unconfirmed ones show in Material alerts.
Purchase order (PO)	An order to a supplier with materials, rates and GST. Its status moves from Draft to Ordered, Partly received and Received. See Purchase orders.
GST / GSTIN	Goods and Services Tax rate on PO lines, and the supplier’s GST number stored on the supplier.
Recipe	How much material one unit of work takes, with wastage — e.g. 1 cum of M20 concrete = 8.06 bags cement + 0.42 cum sand + 0.84 cum 20 mm aggregate. See Estimate recipes.
Auto BOQ / Shortfall	The total material the whole plan needs, compared with ordered, received, used and on site. The shortfall is what is still missing. See Auto BOQ.

Sales terms#

Term	Meaning in Konkat
Lead	An enquiry from a possible buyer, moving New → Contacted → Site visit → Negotiation → Booked / Lost. See Leads and follow-ups.
Follow-up	The next call or visit date on a lead. Follow-ups due lists who to call today.
Booking	A unit sold to a customer: area × rate + other charges = agreement value. The unit is marked Booked. See Bookings.
Payment schedule	The instalments of a booking (booking amount, agreement, slabs, finishing, handover…), each due on a date or when a plan task is done.
Due now	The part of a payment schedule already due but not yet received.

App and access terms#

Term	Meaning in Konkat
Team	The people on a project. Only they can see it. See Team and people.
Project role	A person’s role on one project — Owner, Admin, Engineer, QC, Supervisor or a custom role. It decides what they can do there.
Custom role	A role you make from ticks, e.g. Storekeeper, Accounts, Sales. See Roles and permissions.
Account type	Optional Owner or Admin on a person’s profile; only allows creating projects and logins.
PWA (installable web app)	Konkat runs in the browser but can be installed on the home screen like an app. See Install the app.
Service worker	The background part of the browser that makes Konkat installable and keeps offline copies. Needs https://.
Build number	The short code at the bottom of the menu that identifies the installed version.
Find	Quick search for screens, actions, tasks, units and people (Ctrl + K on a computer).
Konkat User	The Frappe role every Konkat login gets. It has no desk access. See Security and access.

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