Key concepts: organizations, spaces, the triangle
A handful of words come up constantly in Inkome, and they nest inside each other in a specific way. Get these three right — organization, space, and the Revenue/Cash/Costs triangle — and the rest of the guide reads easily.
The hierarchy: organization → space → business data
Everything in Inkome lives inside a three-level structure. Each level holds the one below it.
| Level | What it is | What it holds | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organization | Your company or workspace | Members, roles, billing, org-level settings | “Acme Studio” |
| Space | One revenue stream inside the org | Its own deals, collections, costs, and business type | “Consulting”, “Online Store” |
| Business data | The day-to-day records | Deals, collections, costs, stages, units, cost types | The actual entries you create |
Organization
The organization is the top of the tree — the company itself. Your team members belong to the organization, and each one has a role there: owner, admin, or member. Billing and org-wide settings live at this level too. You create your organization when you sign up — see Create your organization.
Space
A space is one isolated revenue stream inside the organization. Each space keeps its own deals, collections, and costs, so your numbers never bleed across streams — your consulting pipeline doesn’t get mixed into your store’s catalog. A space also carries a business type, which reshapes every label in the app to fit that stream. One organization can hold several spaces. The full story is in Spaces: isolated revenue streams.
Business data
Inside a space lives the day-to-day: your deals and the stages they move through, the collections you record against them, the costs you track and allocate, plus the units and cost types that organize it all. The dashboard and reports are built entirely from this data.
The triangle: Revenue, Cash, and Costs
The reason Inkome exists is to connect three numbers that most tools keep separate.
- Revenue — your pipeline. The deals you’re working and the value they represent.
- Cash — your collections. Money that has actually arrived, which is not the same as a deal being won.
- Costs — what you spend to do the work, and how much of it traces back to each deal.
The key insight: a deal closed is not money in the bank. A CRM stops at “won” and never tells you whether you got paid. Accounting tracks payments but doesn’t know your pipeline. Inkome connects all three against the same deals, so you can see the whole picture at once — what’s coming, what’s arrived, and what it cost. This is what we mean by the triangle, and Philosophy — why Inkome exists explains why it’s the heart of the product.
Where to go next
- See how spaces isolate each revenue stream: Spaces: isolated revenue streams
- See how business types re-label the app: Dynamic terminology
- Look up any term: Glossary
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