Xid

You've probably seen references to xid in a few places. What is it, exactly?

The X stands for "External," and xid is the id number that you know your constituents by. In computer-science-y terms, it's the primary key of your warehouse table.

AlumnIQ can integrate with any warehouse provider out there. Harris? No problem. Salesforce? You bet. Just a spreadsheet? Yeah, we can do that too. (I think you get the picture...)

We use the term "xid" to refer to your constituent id number because each warehouse provider calls it something different. For consistency's sake, we just call it xid no matter where your warehouse data comes from.