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Glossary

Plain-language meanings of the words you will see in Tomba.

Written by Tomba.io Team

Here's what the words you'll see in Tomba mean. Each term links to an article with more detail.

Credits and plans

  • Search credits: Credits for finding emails, phone numbers and companies. The app also calls them Finder and Searches.

  • Verification credits: Credits for checking emails with Email Verifier. They're separate from search credits.

  • Usage window: The period before your plan credits reset. Monthly plans reset at each billing date. Free, yearly and Enterprise plans reset every 30 days.

  • Credit pack: Extra credits you buy once. They last 12 months and are used after your plan credits.

Emails

  • Confidence score: A number from 0 to 100 on each email. It shows how sure Tomba is about the address.

  • Accept-all: A domain, the part of an address after the @, that accepts mail sent to any address. Tomba can't confirm one person's mailbox there. It's also called catch-all.

  • Disposable: A temporary, throwaway address. Tomba doesn't show these.

  • Webmail: An address from a free email service, such as Gmail or Outlook. Tomba doesn't show these.

  • Personal email: A work address that belongs to one person, such as [email protected].

  • Generic email: A shared address, such as [email protected].

  • Hard bounce: An email that comes back because the address can't receive mail. Report it, and you get 1 search credit back once Tomba confirms it.

Tools

  • Domain Search: Finds the emails at a company from its website. It's called Search in the left menu.

  • Email Finder: Finds one person's email from their name and company.

  • Reveal: Finds companies with filters or AI search.

  • Bulks: Runs a tool on a whole list and gives you a file to download.

  • SLA: Exports lists from Sales Navigator, LinkedIn and Apollo. It needs the Chrome extension.

  • Leads: Your saved contacts and lists.

  • Data Flags: The page where you review the wrong data you've reported.

Teams

  • Workspace: A team of Tomba users under one owner. Members use the owner's credits.

  • Owner: The person whose plan and credits the workspace uses. The owner can set a credit limit for each member.

  • Admin: A member who can also manage members and workspace settings.

  • Member: Someone with full access to shared data, who can also export and use bulks.

  • Guest: Someone who sees their own data only and can't export or use bulks.

Only if you connect other apps

  • API key: A private code that lets another app use your Tomba account.

  • MCP: A way to connect AI assistants to Tomba.

  • Webhook: A web address Tomba contacts each time you get a new lead, so another app can act on it.

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