Beelocity covers a whole business: selling, buying, stock, production, upkeep, money and people. Few businesses do all of it. A joinery that buys timber, makes furniture and sells it has no use for Payroll while it employs nobody. It has no use for Foreign Trade if it never imports.
Modules let your organization show only what it uses. A module that is off leaves the menu, the search and the dashboard for everyone. When you turn it back on, it comes back exactly as it was.
Turn a module off
- Open Settings from the avatar menu, and choose Modules under Workspace.
- Find the module. Each one says in one sentence what it is for.
- Click its switch and confirm with Turn off.
The module leaves the sidebar at once, for every member of the organization.
Nothing is deleted. Its records stay where they are. If a record of another module already points at one of them, it still shows it. For example, a purchase order that went through an import dossier still names the dossier.
Turn a module on
Click the switch of a module that is off.
Some modules need others to work. A till sells products from a warehouse and puts its cash in a treasury account, so Point of Sale needs Inventory, Sales and Treasury. If turning one module on brings others with it, Beelocity names them and asks you before it does so.
You can also turn a module on from the place where you notice that it is missing. If you open a page of a module that is off, the page says so. It offers Turn on to anyone who can change the modules. Everyone else reads that they should ask the owner of the organization to turn it on.
What each module needs
| Module | Needs |
|---|---|
| Sales | Inventory, Business Partners |
| Procurement | Inventory, Business Partners |
| Foreign Trade | Procurement, Treasury |
| Point of Sale | Inventory, Sales, Treasury |
| Online Store | Inventory, Sales |
| Manufacturing | Inventory |
| Maintenance | Inventory |
| Payroll | Human Resources, Treasury |
Inventory, Business Partners, Treasury and Human Resources need nothing else.
You cannot turn a module off while another module that needs it is on. Its switch is drawn paler. Point at the switch to see which modules use it, or press it and Beelocity tells you. Turn those modules off first.
What disappears, and what stays
When a module is off:
- Its entry leaves the sidebar.
- Its pages, its New … actions and its records leave the search (
Ctrl+K). - Its tab leaves the dashboard, with any figure you pinned from it.
- Other modules stop offering its work. An employee has no Pay tab while Payroll is off, and a product has no Bills of materials tab while Manufacturing is off.
What a record already holds stays visible. An asset that has a work centre keeps showing it while Manufacturing is off, and saving the asset keeps it.
Modules are not permissions. If you turn one off, you hide it from everybody, the owner included. To decide what one person can do, give them a role in Settings → Members.
Who can change the modules
The organization’s owner can change the modules, and so can anyone whose role lets them change the organization’s modules. Everyone else who can open the page sees each module marked On or Off.