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Facility Management Software Glossary: Key Terms & Concepts

List of Facility Management Software features

Billing and Invoicing

An invoice and a bill are documents that convey the same information about the amount owing for the sale of goods or services. Still, a company uses an invoice to collect money from its cu...read more

Fixed Asset Management

The practice of tracking and managing an organization's physical assets and equipment is known as fixed asset management. Vehicles, computers, furniture, and machinery are examples of asse...read more

Contact Management

Contact management refers to keeping, organizing, and managing information about your customers, prospects, and sales leads. In its most basic form, an address book or an Excel or Google s...read more

Customer Support

Customer support is a term used to describe services that assist customers in making the most cost-effective and proper usage of a product. From product planning to installation, training,...read more

Multi-Location

Connected Business's Multi-Location Accounting function helps businesses with many locations or branches to keep track of their financials per location. Some multi-location companies have ...read more

Online Payments

Trading money electronically is known as online payment. Computer networks, the internet, and digital stored value systems are commonly used in this process. You accept an online payment w...read more

Calendar Management

Few people have mastered the ability to organize their calendars. It is the practice of optimizing your calendar by combining priority management and time management. It's focused on figur...read more

Meeting Room Booking

Meeting Room Booking is a highly efficient feature that allows users to easily schedule and manage meetings or events within an organization. This feature eliminates the need for manual bo...read more

Payment Processing

Payment Processing is defined as providing a Person with the ability to charge or debit accounts using any payment mechanism, including but not limited to Remotely Created Payment Orders, ...read more

Customer Portal

A customer portal is a website that allows current customers to access services and information. It's usually safe and confidential, and it requires authentication. Account information, pa...read more

CRM

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a tool that allows to keep track of all of the company's relationships and interactions with its customers and prospects. Its objective is straigh...read more

Document Management

A system or process for capturing, tracking and storing electronic documents such as PDFs, word processing files, and digital photographs of paper-based content is known as document manage...read more

Chat (Messaging)

The act of conversing, communicating, and/or exchanging messages through the internet is known as chatting. It entails two or more persons interacting via a chat-enabled service or softwar...read more

Collaboration Tools

People can collaborate more easily with the help of collaboration tools. The goal of a collaboration tool is to help a group of two or more individuals achieve a common goal or objective. ...read more

Alerts

An app or software sends out alerts, which are actionable and content-rich push notifications. These alerts can be for various reasons, including messages from teammates, reporting manager...read more

About the reviewer

Rajat Gupta is the founder of Spotsaas. Over the past two years, he has reviewed 2,000+ tools across CRM, HR, AI, and finance — applying hands-on product research and a background in commerce and the CFA program to evaluate software through a business and ROI lens. His goal: help teams make software decisions they won't regret.

Disclaimer: This research has been collated from a variety of authoritative sources. We welcome your feedback at [email protected].