Reference

Glossary

Every acronym and regulatory term used across the Conforme dashboard and public site, with its expanded form, a short explanation, and the issuing authority. Hover any abbreviation on the site to see the same excerpt inline.

Registration codes + schemes

7 terms
  • AL PT

    Alojamento Local

    Portugal's legal regime for short-term tourist rentals. Every unit operating under AL must hold a current RNAL registration number to be advertised.

    Portugal · Turismo de Portugal

  • CIN IT

    Codice Identificativo Nazionale

    Italy's national STR registration code, mandatory under DL 145/2023. Format `IT` + 11 alphanumeric characters; must be displayed on every listing nationwide.

    Italy · Ministero del Turismo

  • Declaloc FR

    French national STR registration scheme (Loi Le Meur)

    France's national téléservice through which STR operators obtain a CIN registration code. Replaces the old per-commune declaration; fines up to €20k for non-compliance.

    France · Ministère de l'Économie

  • HUTB ES

    Habitatge d'Ús Turístic — Barcelona

    Catalonia's STR registration code (Barcelona prefix). Every unit advertised in the city must hold a current HUTB number, which appears on the listing in the format `HUTB-000000`.

    Spain · Generalitat de Catalunya

  • NRUA ES

    Número de Registro Único de Alojamiento

    Spain's mandatory STR registration number under Royal Decree 1312/2024 (in force July 2025). Must appear on every listing on every OTA where the unit is sold.

    Spain · Ministerio de Vivienda

  • RNAL PT

    Registo Nacional de Alojamento Local

    Portugal's national STR registry. Each unit gets a numeric ID (format `12345/AL`) which must appear on every listing and on monthly SEF/SIBA filings.

    Portugal · Turismo de Portugal →

  • VUT ES

    Vivienda de Uso Turístico

    Spain's national legal category for whole-unit short-term tourist rentals. Each autonomous community runs its own VUT registry on top — Andalucía, Madrid, Valencia, etc.

    Spain · Ministerio de Vivienda

Guest-data submission systems

5 terms
  • Hospedajes ES

    Ses Hospedajes — Spain's guest-reporting endpoint

    Common shorthand for SES — the Spanish guest entry system. Conforme files each booking automatically once Hostaway has captured the guest's ID.

    Spain · Ministerio del Interior

  • INE PT

    Instituto Nacional de Estatística

    Portugal's national statistics institute. STR operators submit monthly occupancy + nights data here under the tourism survey.

    Portugal · INE →

  • SEF PT

    Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras

    Portugal's foreigners and borders service. Operates SIBA — the guest-reporting endpoint for STR check-ins. (Now subsumed into AIMA, but the SIBA filing endpoint retains the SEF name.)

    Portugal · AIMA (ex-SEF)

  • SES ES

    Sistema de Entrada de Viajeros (Hospedajes)

    Spain's police-side guest entry system — formally Ses Hospedajes. Replaces the old paper hospedajes form; mandatory data submission within 24 hours of check-in under Orden INT/1922/2003 + RD 933/2021.

    Spain · Ministerio del Interior

  • SIBA PT

    Sistema de Informação de Boletins de Alojamento

    Portugal's police-side guest reporting system. Every check-in must be filed within three working days; missed filings carry per-night fines.

    Portugal · SEF / PSP

Tax authorities

1 terms
  • AEAT ES

    Agencia Estatal de Administración Tributaria

    Spain's national tax agency. Operates the WebService that receives periodic STR rental returns (Modelo 179) and is the destination for Verifactu-track invoice submission.

    Spain · AEAT →

Platforms + industry

3 terms
  • Hostaway

    Hostaway — channel manager

    Third-party channel manager for STR listings. Conforme reads bookings + guest details from Hostaway via webhook so guest-data filings can be dispatched automatically.

    Hostaway B.V.

  • OTA

    Online Travel Agency

    Industry shorthand for the listing platforms — Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, etc. — through which STR units are advertised and booked.

    Industry term

  • STR

    Short-term rental

    Industry shorthand for furnished tourist accommodation rented for less than 30 days at a time. The exact day-threshold varies by jurisdiction.

    Industry term

Conforme internal vocabulary

4 terms
  • ARR

    Annual Recurring Revenue

    Monthly Recurring Revenue × 12.

    SaaS metric

  • KEK

    Key Encryption Key

    Master encryption key used to wrap per-record data keys. Conforme stores guest passport scans encrypted under a per-org data key, which is itself wrapped under the KEK.

    Cryptography term

  • MRR

    Monthly Recurring Revenue

    The predictable monthly billing total across all subscriptions. Conforme bills €29 per property per month, so MRR = active properties × €29.

    SaaS metric

  • RLS

    Row Level Security

    Postgres feature that scopes every query to the operator's organisation, preventing cross-tenant data leaks at the database layer rather than in application code.

    PostgreSQL

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