GLOSSARY
Reseller automation glossary
Twenty terms you need before evaluating HiddenAIO or any AIO bot. Plain language, one definition each. Skip the marketing pages until these are second nature.
- AIO
- All in one bot. A single tool that bundles a monitor, checkout automation, and account management so you can run drops without switching between separate apps.
- Variant ID
- The numeric identifier Shopify assigns to a specific size or color of a product. Bots use the variant ID to add the right SKU to cart the instant a product goes live.
- Cart link
- A pre built URL that adds a specific variant to your cart on a Shopify store. Resellers share cart links to skip the product page during a fast drop.
- Queue
- A waiting room a store places between you and the checkout to throttle traffic during high demand drops. Bots that misread the queue can lose their position.
- Captcha
- A challenge designed to separate humans from bots. Sneaker and Popmart drops often use hCaptcha or reCAPTCHA, and AIO tools route them to solving services or harvesters.
- Proxy
- An intermediate IP address that hides your real one. Bots use multiple proxies to run several tasks in parallel without getting rate limited or banned.
- ISP proxy
- A proxy that uses an IP owned by a residential ISP but hosted in a datacenter. Faster than residential, less obvious than pure datacenter, often used for Shopify.
- Datacenter proxy
- A proxy whose IP belongs to a hosting provider. Cheap and fast, easy to detect. Useful for less protected sites and for monitoring tasks.
- Residential proxy
- A proxy whose IP comes from a real home connection. Slow but hard to detect. Often required for harder sites like Yeezy Supply.
- Monitor
- A service that watches a store for stock changes, new products, or price moves and emits an alert the moment a target appears. AIO tools have monitors built in, free ones rely on Discord webhooks.
- Webhook
- An HTTP endpoint that receives push notifications from a service. Monitors post product alerts to Discord webhooks so a server can ping you in real time.
- Restock
- When a store replenishes inventory after an item sold out. Restocks are often unannounced and reward whoever has the fastest monitor and checkout.
- Drop
- A scheduled product release. Drops are the bread and butter of resellers because the supply is limited and demand is concentrated to a single moment.
- Cook start
- Slang for the moment a bot begins trying to check out a target. A successful drop is one where many tasks cook, meaning they convert to a confirmed order.
- Profile
- A saved bundle of shipping address, billing address, and contact details a bot uses to check out. Resellers maintain dozens of profiles to spread orders across accounts.
- Billing profile
- A profile that pairs a shipping address with a payment method. Stores can flag duplicate billing details, so resellers rotate cards and addresses.
- Shipping rate cap
- A maximum shipping cost the bot will accept. Without a cap, a checkout can pass with an expensive express rate and erode margin.
- Virtual card
- A short lived card number issued by a service like Privacy or Revolut. Resellers use virtual cards to spread spend across many cards and protect their main account.
- OTP
- One time password. A code sent by SMS, email, or authenticator app that the bot or the user has to enter to complete checkout or login. Bot tools sometimes integrate with SMS pools for this.
- Sitekey
- A public identifier a site embeds when it loads a captcha widget. Captcha solving services need the sitekey to return a valid token the bot can submit.
- Akamai
- An enterprise anti bot system used by Nike, Footsites, and others. Akamai assigns each browser a fingerprint and a sensor cookie. Defeating Akamai is the hardest part of running on those sites.