Glossary
The words you meet in school administration, finance and teaching, each explained in a sentence or two, with the Croatian term where it matters.
- Adult education institution(učilište, ustanova za obrazovanje odraslih)
- An institution in Croatia that runs verified programmes for adults. Read more →
- AZUP
- The Croatian agency and registry for adult education. Amber exports group data for it as XML.
- camt.053 and MT940
- International bank statement formats that Amber can import.
- Cash limit(blagajnički maksimum)
- The most cash a company may keep on hand, set by its own internal decision.
- Cash register closing(zaključak blagajne)
- The record of every cash and card payment taken since the previous closing.
- CEFR(ZEROJ)
- The Common European Framework of Reference for languages, with levels from A1 to C2.
- CELTA lesson plan
- The lesson plan format of the Cambridge CELTA teaching qualification, covering aims, language analysis, procedure and anticipated problems.
- Collection invoice
- An invoice for whatever is still owed after a course has ended.
- Custom service
- In Amber, anything you invoice that isn’t a course fee, such as books, exam fees, room rent or services for a company.
- Document request
- In Amber, asking a group’s students or parents to sign or hand in documents online.
- eIzvještavanje
- Reporting to the Tax Administration which payments you received for issued eRačuni. It is due by the 20th of the following month.
- Enrollment funnel
- The path from first enquiry to enrolled student, and the points where people drop out along the way.
- Enrollment period(upisni rok)
- In Amber, the box that holds the applicants for one enrollment season or programme.
- ePoslovanje
- The e-invoice intermediary Amber uses to send eRačuni.
- eRačun(e-invoice)
- A structured electronic invoice (XML following EN 16931) that businesses exchange through an intermediary such as ePoslovanje.
- Fiscalization(fiskalizacija)
- Sending each invoice to the Tax Administration at the moment it is issued. The Tax Administration returns a JIR, which is printed on the invoice. In Croatia, since 1 January 2026, this applies to every invoice to a private person, bank transfers included. Read more →
- Form Builder
- Amber’s tool for placing data on your own document layouts, such as contracts, certificates and forms. Read more →
- HKO and CSVET
- A programme’s level in the Croatian Qualifications Framework, and the credits attached to its learning outcomes.
- HUB3 / HUB-3A
- HUB3 is the Croatian bank statement format, and HUB-3A is the payment slip with a barcode.
- JIR(jedinstveni identifikator računa)
- The unique invoice identifier that the Tax Administration returns for each fiscalized invoice.
- KLASA / URBROJ
- The two-tier classification and reference number that official documents in Croatia carry.
- KPD code(klasifikacija proizvoda po djelatnostima)
- The product classification code that every line of a Croatian eRačun has to carry.
- Lead(upit, potencijalni polaznik)
- Someone who is interested in a course but hasn’t enrolled yet. Read more →
- Legal entity(pravna osoba)
- The company a school invoices under. One school can have several.
- Legal guardian(zakonski zastupnik)
- The parent or guardian linked to a student under 18, who signs and pays on their behalf.
- Lesson plan(nastavna priprema)
- A teacher’s plan for a lesson. Amber supports both general and CELTA-style plans. Read more →
- Lesson summary(sažetak nastave)
- The record in the register of what was covered in a lesson.
- Lesson unit(nastavni sat)
- The unit of teaching time (45 minutes, for example) used to count lessons and bill for them.
- Log book(matična knjiga)
- The official book of an adult education institution’s student ID codes. Each student’s page in it is called the matični list.
- Ministry verification(rješenje)
- The ministry’s approval of a programme, with its classification, reference number and date. It is printed on certificates.
- NGPT
- Next Generation Placement Test, an adaptive online placement test for English, German, Italian, Spanish and French.
- OIB(osobni identifikacijski broj)
- The Croatian identification number for people and companies, used on invoices, contracts and official records.
- Payment plan(otplatni plan, rate, upisnina)
- A price split into a down payment and instalments, with a payment slip for each one.
- Payment reference(poziv na broj)
- The reference number on a bank transfer. Amber generates its own, with a check digit, and uses it to match payments automatically.
- Placement test(test razine)
- A test that shows which level a new student should join. Amber connects to NGPT for online placement tests.
- PWA(web app on the home screen)
- A website you can add to your phone’s home screen and that can send notifications, with no app store involved.
- Re-enrollment
- Offering current students a place in next term’s group.
- Referral source(kako ste čuli za nas)
- Where an applicant heard about your school. It tells you which marketing actually works.
- School management system(SMS, softver za upravljanje školom)
- Software that runs a school’s administration, from students and courses to timetables, documents, payments and reports.
- Storno(cancellation invoice)
- An invoice that cancels another one with the opposite amount. This is how fiscalized invoices are corrected.
- Stripe
- The card payment service a school connects to Amber for online enrollment. Payments go to the school’s own account.
- Student ID code(matični broj)
- The number an adult education institution gives a student in a programme. It is recorded in the log book.
- Two-factor authentication(2FA)
- Logging in with your password plus a code from an authenticator app.
- ZKI(zaštitni kod izdavatelja)
- The issuer’s protection code. Your invoicing software calculates it, and it is printed on every fiscalized invoice.
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