The words the work is done in.
This site keeps the Italian nouns of the work, because that is how the work is spoken. Each term below is defined by what the product does with it, and links to the module where it lives.
- Commessa
A customer job with its own code, dates, currency and owners, structured into a tree of activities with sub-activities and milestones. Hours, expenses, documents and margin all hang off it.
- Turno
A worked period logged against a sub-activity of a commessa by the person who did the work. A manager approves it, or returns it with a written reason the person reads.
- Timbratura
A clock event. Clocked segments are sliced at local midnight per business date and matched against the shifts logged on commesse; hours that no commessa explains are flagged and rolled into a weekly digest.
- Cartellino
The attendance sheet: clocked time and logged hours side by side for the same person and period, reconciled before the period is locked for payroll.
- Listino
The customer's price list, with revisions. Approved work is valued against the revision in force on the day the work was done, and a shift that no revision covers is refused, with the refusal visible on the valuation.
- Fascia oraria
A time band inside a listino. Rates vary by role, by band and by day type, with the company holiday calendar dominant over Saturday and weekday; a shift that straddles two bands is split and priced slice by slice.
- A corpo / time & material
The two ways an activity is billed. A corpo bills a fixed price on declared milestones; time and material bills approved hours at listino rates. One commessa can hold both, activity by activity.
- Avanzamento (SAL)
The progress statement built from approved hours and billable milestones, valued on the customer's listino. It carries a persisted calculation log that explains every euro, and the log can still be read when an amount is disputed months later.
- Proforma
A billing document kept structurally apart from fiscal ones: it lives in a separate collection, invisible to the XML mapper and to the SdI transmission, so it cannot accidentally be sent as an invoice.
- FatturaPA
The XML format of the Italian electronic invoice. Duckday produces it natively, chooses VAT from a catalogue that resolves rate, nature code and legal reference together, and validates the file against the official XSD before transmission.
- SdI
The Sistema di Interscambio, the channel every electronic invoice passes through. Transmission runs through an accredited intermediary, and the outcome, delivered or rejected, is recorded on the document.
- Lettera d'intento
A habitual exporter's declaration, with its plafond. Duckday keeps count of the plafond, and drafts and proformas commit a share of it before issue.
- Nota spese
An expense entered by the person who advanced the money, approved and reimbursed. Where the contract provides for it, it is rebilled onto the commessa with the agreed markup.
- Scadenzario
The payment schedule across issued and received invoices: what falls due, when, and what is still open, on both sides.
- Centro di costo
Where cost and revenue are classified for management control. Cost centres carry budgets and variance thresholds, and roll up into a reclassified P&L that reconciles against the accountant's trial balance.
- My Day
The short list a person picks for today. It is per person and starts empty each morning: pulling a to-do into My Day changes nothing for anybody else, and what is left undone does not roll over on its own — tomorrow you choose again.
- Lista condivisa
A to-do list shared with named people, each of them owner, editor or viewer. Every member sees what is in it; who may edit or complete follows the part they hold on that list, and assigning it to somebody else needs the permission to assign.
- Sequenza
An ordered chain of to-dos where only the first open step is active and the rest wait. Ticking a step unlocks the next, dates it from the day it unlocked and tells whoever it belongs to — an onboarding that cannot be started from the middle.
Tell us how you work today.
There is nothing to prepare. Half an hour on how your company runs — who tracks the hours, how an invoice comes together, when you find out whether a commessa made money — and we tell you which modules would fix it and what a quote looks like.