Beelocity groups everything that you work with into twelve business modules. They are Sales, Procurement, Foreign Trade, Business Partners, Inventory, Manufacturing, Maintenance, Treasury, Point of Sale, Online Store, Human Resources and Payroll. You move between them in three ways: the sidebar, the module overview pages and the command palette.
The sidebar
The sidebar shows one level at a time, so its list of links stays short.
Your organization. The foot of the sidebar names the organization that you are working in. It also shows the organization’s logo if its profile has one. Click the name to see every organization that you belong to, and pick another one. Your personal workspace is marked as such. New organization starts a new one, and All organizations opens the full list.
When you switch, Beelocity keeps you on the list that you were reading, and that list now shows the other organization’s records. Sales orders stay Sales orders. If you had a record open, Beelocity takes you to its list instead, because the record belongs to the organization that you left.
The module list. On the main dashboard or any general page, the sidebar shows your general pages: Dashboard and Inbox, which carries your unread count. The list of business modules comes below them. The full list of your organizations is one click away, in the switcher at the foot of the sidebar.
Only the modules that you can open appear. If your role grants no Treasury permissions, you see no Treasury entry. If your organization has turned a module off, nobody sees it. Each module ends in an arrow, because it opens a list of its own.
Inside a module. When you click a module, two things happen. Beelocity opens the module’s overview page, and the sidebar changes to the module’s own list of pages. The top of the sidebar then reads Beelocity / Sales: the product’s name, then the module that you are in.
The first row, Dashboard, brings you back to the overview page at any time. Below it, the module lists the work that you come back to every week, in the order that the work happens. Sales lists Quotations, Orders, Delivery Notes, Sales Returns, Invoices and Credit Notes.
Pages that you read together are one row, with a tab for each page. In Inventory, Stock holds the stock levels, the lots, the serial numbers and the warehouse map.
Setup is the last row, a little apart from the work. It holds what the module is set up with, each in its own tab. These are the lists and rules that you set once and revisit about once a year. A module with nothing to set up, such as Procurement, has no Setup.
Each row shows the page’s name and nothing else. The names start on the same line as the organization at the foot of the sidebar. No module draws a heading, so each page is one click away.
Going back. Beelocity, at the top of the sidebar, returns you to the module list and leaves you on the page that you are reading. The module that you are in stays in bold, so you always know where you are.
The sidebar follows you. You can arrive on a page from a bookmark, a link from a colleague, a search result or a page refresh. In every case, the sidebar opens the module that owns the page and shows that page in bold.
On phones and small screens, the sidebar slides over the page. Open it with the three-line button at the start of the top bar. It closes by itself after you pick a destination.
Module overview pages
Every module has an overview page, which opens when you click the module. It shows what needs doing in the module, from top to bottom:
- Buttons start the jobs of the week, such as New sales order. You only see the buttons that your permissions allow.
- Headline numbers and charts come next, where the module has them. Examples are open sales orders, overdue purchase orders, cash position and maintenance reliability. These are the same cards as on the dashboard, and the pin button copies any of them to your dashboard’s Overview tab.
- Lists of what is waiting end the page. Most lists show the first five records and say how many there are. A row opens the record where the job is done, and View all opens the full list.
Beelocity reads each list again every time the page opens. The page does not repeat the module’s pages as links, because the sidebar already lists them.
As everywhere in Beelocity, the ⓘ button opens a panel beside the page, and the page narrows to make room. On an overview page, the button ends the row of buttons. The panel explains what the module covers and defines the terms that it uses. Press ⓘ again, or Esc, to close the panel. On a phone, the panel slides up from the bottom and has its own ×.
Jumping anywhere with the command palette
The fastest way to move around is the command palette. Press Ctrl+K (⌘K on a Mac), or click Search… in the bar across the top. Then type a few letters and press Enter.
A page in a module shows its full location, for example Sales › Setup › Price Lists. So the palette also tells you where a page is in the sidebar. The palette can also start documents. Type “new” to see the actions that your permissions allow.
Where you are
The bar across the top always names the page that you are on and the level above it. For a list, the level above is the module (Sales › Sales orders). For a record, it is the list (Sales orders › SO-2026-000014). To go up one level, click that name or the ↑ arrow beside it.
The bar is short on purpose. It shows one step and not the whole path, because the sidebar already shows which module you are in. The palette shows a page’s full location when you search for it. On a phone, the bar keeps the arrow and the page name and drops the rest.
While a page is on its way
Beelocity fetches each page the first time that you open it, so the first visit to a screen can take a moment. A thin line runs across the top of the window while the page arrives. The rest of the app stays where it is, and the page opens as soon as it is ready. When you go back to the page later, it opens at once.
Sometimes a page says This page could not be loaded and shows a Refresh button. This usually means that Beelocity was updated while your tab was open, so your tab no longer matches the server. Press Refresh to load the new version. Nothing that you have saved is affected.
Once you are on a page
Most destinations are a list of products, orders, partners or assets. Working with Lists explains how to search, sort, set the column widths and open a row. They work the same way on every list.
Where the rest lives
- Settings and access control are not in the sidebar. Open them from the square with your initials in the top corner, or search for them in the palette.
- Switching organizations happens at the foot of the sidebar. See Your organization.
- Light or dark follows your device. Beelocity is light when your computer or phone is set to light, and dark when it is set to dark.