back end definition

back end

General: 'Behind the scene' operations center of a business with which the customer rarely comes in contact. Back-end offices or departments provide the services that make up a business function, such as accounting, administration, communications data processing, document handling. See also front end.

Network marketing: Commission received by an independent agent on the sales revenue of the agents recruited by him or her (agent's downline).

back end is in the Advertising, Marketing, & Sales, Documentation & Recordkeeping and Entrepreneurship, Management, & Leadership subjects.

back end appears in the definitions of the following terms: seat pitch, front end separation, distributed application, back-end office and hybrid business

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