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Modules
Ordryx is built from modules: one for stock, one for making, one for selling, and so on. You switch on only the ones your shop uses, and the menu shows just those.
What a module is
A module is one part of Ordryx with its own screens, settings and reports. Inventory keeps your stock. Sales keeps your orders. Shipping buys labels. Each one adds its own lines to the menu, its own rows to the Overview and its own reports.
Some modules build on others. Production uses Inventory's items, so it needs Inventory. Shipping ships Sales' orders, so it needs Sales. Ordryx keeps track of this for you: when you switch a module on, it also switches on what that module needs.
The modules
| Module | What it does | Needs |
|---|---|---|
| Inventory | Items you buy, make and sell: stock at each location, counting, alert levels, scanning and labels. | Nothing: most other modules build on it |
| Production | Recipes, what your parts on hand can make, making in the shop, the Jobs board and the log of what was made. | Inventory |
| Contracting | Work sent to outside contractors: work orders, receiving, checking, signed payment receipts and the contractor portal. | Inventory, Production |
| Purchasing | Suppliers, who each item is bought from, purchase orders, receiving and landed cost, and what to reorder. | Inventory |
| Sales | Orders from every channel in one place, and orders you type in yourself. Stock leaves only when an order ships. | Inventory |
| POS | Selling in person at the counter: tap or scan items, take card or cash, and the till. | Inventory, Sales |
| Shopify | Brings a Shopify store's orders into Sales and keeps stock right when they ship. | Inventory, Sales |
| WooCommerce | Brings a WooCommerce store's orders into Sales, the same way. | Inventory, Sales |
| Shipping | What's ready to ship, shipping labels through your own carrier or label account, bulk ship, the USPS SCAN form and tracking. | Inventory, Sales |
| Printers | 3D printers running Klipper: live cards and cameras, and what each finished print added to stock and used. | Inventory, Production |
| Planner | What to make next, from open orders, stock and work already out, and what to buy for it. | Inventory, Production |
| AI access | Lets an AI assistant read the shop's data, as much as you allow. | Nothing (outside access must be on) |
The screens use the shop's own word for making (Build, Make or Bake). This guide says "make".
Switching a module on or off
Only people who can manage modules see this screen. In the standard roles that is the owner.
- Open Settings › Modules.
- Find the module in the list. Each line says what it Needs and what it is Needed by.
- Press its switch.
- Read the box that opens, then press Turn on or Turn off.
When you turn a module on, Ordryx tells you if it needs another module that is off. That one is turned on too.
You can't turn off a module that another switched-on module needs. The box names the ones in the way: turn those off first. For example, to turn off Production you first turn off Planner, Contracting and Printers.
A line that says Off on the container was switched off where Ordryx is installed, not in the app. Only the person who runs the server can change that.
What happens when a module is off
Turning a module off hides it. Nothing is deleted.
- Its screens, menu items, Overview rows and reports disappear for everyone, straight away.
- Assistants connected through AI access can no longer see its data.
- If someone opens an old link to one of its screens, Ordryx says the module is off.
- Its records stay exactly as they were. Turn it back on and everything comes back as it was.
Each module's own settings
The settings in Settings are for the whole shop. Each module also has settings of its own, such as Inventory's stock locations. Open them from the gear in the module's header, on its own page.