The following table describes essential Territory Design vocabulary terms:
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
Balancing | The process of creating territories that have equal statistics across a market |
Base (Alignment) layer | The base geography, or building blocks, from which all territories and their levels are based |
Capacity | An attribute threshold to constrain territories |
Constraints | Customizable parameters that control the shape and size of territories |
Locked territories | Territories that won’t be reassigned to other territories during balance |
Seed points | Territory centers representative of actual locations, such as offices or stores |
Territory | An individual geography, or group of geographies, that form a boundary |
Territory solution | A layer containing all the necessary elements for building, editing, and maintaining territories |