Term: finds
Finds are the items themselves — listings pulled out of a marketplace and put in front of other people. The word covers the whole act: finding, sharing, being found. A finds list is the running version, usually kept in a sheet so rows can be added or dropped without rewriting anything.
What makes a list a finds list rather than a shopping list is intent. Rows go in because they look worth considering, often long before anyone decides to buy. Plenty of rows never leave the sheet, and that is normal rather than a failure.
Term: W2C
W2C means want to cop: the row has moved from interesting to intended. On most sheets it appears as a column, a colour or a separate tab, and nothing about the address changes when it is marked. It records a decision, not an order.
Keep it separate from a paid order. A W2C row still points at a marketplace listing, and no platform has been given anything yet. Treat it as the top of a funnel rather than a commitment, because the address behind it can go quiet between the marking and the purchase.
Term: haul
A haul is a group of items bought together so they travel together. The word describes the parcel more than the shopping: several finds, one shipment, one set of shipping charges. Grouping rows into a haul is what turns a list into a delivery plan.
Hauls are where the arithmetic becomes real. Adding one item to a parcel changes the weight and the declared value of everything else in it. The shipping weight estimate exists for that step, and it does not care which platform the rows came from.
Term: consolidation
Consolidation is the step that makes a haul possible. Items reach a warehouse one at a time, and consolidation is the instruction to pack them into a single parcel instead of sending each separately. Until that instruction is given, the arrivals stay separate.
Two things get decided at once: what goes in and what stays behind. A held-back item keeps its own deadline, and those deadlines are set per account, which is why the platform ledger marks storage terms unverified instead of quoting a figure nobody here can check.
Quick index
Finds — the listings. W2C — the ones you intend to buy. Haul — the group travelling together. Consolidation — the instruction that packs them into one parcel. Four words, four stages, and a sheet that uses them the same way twice is a sheet someone else can pick up.
The layer underneath all four is the address. A finds sheet built on addresses that no longer open is a wish list. Rebuilding each row into the marketplace page it encodes is what keeps the list usable, and the answer on what an ACBuy sheet is covers that layer in more detail.