Around the World
The two-digit ISO country code for the United Kingdom
What is GB?
A term for payment methods, popular in eCommerce carts, which allow customers to split purchases into multiple payments.
What is Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL)?
These two Zonuts were the competitors in the first annual Zonos Chess tournament finals
Who are Colby and Shawn?
This process involves extracting and organizing specific pieces of data from an API response.
What is parsing?
This travels around the world but stays in one corner?
What is a stamp?
This is the only Southern Hemisphere country that borders both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is Chile?
This technology allows customers to visualize products in their space before buying online.
What is Augmented Reality (AR)?
Zonos Halloween 2024 was one for the books. The winners of the group costume award based their costumes on this popular 1970's film.
What is Star Wars?
This term refers to a function or process that listens for API events, and triggers actions based on those events.
What is a webhook?
This has more letters than the alphabet.
What is a post office?
This European capital hosts the headquarters of Zonos' client, the Universal Postal Union.
What is Bern, Switzerland?
This European regulation requires customer consent for data tracking.
What is GDPR?
This was the first team at Zonos to migrate into the container park
What is Finance/Accounting?
This API authentication method requires a temporary access token to be refreshed after a set time.
What is OAuth?
This is known as a Canadian’s favorite board game.
What is Sorry?
This port is the busiest container port in the world, handling more than 37 million shipping containers annually.
What is the Port of Shanghai?
A term for the AI-driven practice of adjusting online prices based on supply, demand, and competitor pricing.
What is dynamic pricing?
This is a common name for the contraption co-piloted by Clint at Zonos' 2023 Christmas Party.
What is a Range Picker?
(golf ball picker also acceptable)
This security practice ensures that API tokens cannot be intercepted in transit.
What is encryption?
This is the reason that import duty broke up with its girlfriend.
What is being tarrif-ied of commitment?
This is the three-letter currency code for the Swiss franc.
What is CHF?
This term describes using blockchain-based digital receipts to provide verifiable proof of authenticity and ownership for luxury goods in eCommerce.
What is tokenized proof of purchase (or NFT receipts)?
In 2023, Fireman Cody saved the Hangar from an inferno. This was the cause of that fire.
What is rags of paint thinner?
In GraphQL and other data structures, these two components define the relationships between connected data points.
What are nodes and edges?
This was the reason that the shipment of kitchen utensils "caused quite a stir" at customs.
What is, "the customs officials 'had no fork-ing idea' what the customs description 'food poking/scooping device' meant"?
(any answer with "forking" is acceptable)