--- title: How to switch parts of Tideswell on and off url: https://tideswell.xyz/docs/workspace-admin/modules description: Modules decide which parts of the product exist for your workspace, with a preview of exactly what stops before anything changes. --- > Documentation index: fetch https://tideswell.xyz/llms.txt to discover every page before exploring further. # How to switch parts of Tideswell on and off **Settings › Modules** decides which parts of Tideswell your workspace has. Switching one off removes it from the sidebar and makes its pages unreachable, and never deletes anything inside it. ## What is an operating model? [#what-is-an-operating-model] Three cards, **Reseller**, **Brand owner** and **Vertically integrated**, plus an **Also sells wholesale** switch. Together they answer two questions: how you get product, and whether you sell wholesale. Your answers set sensible module defaults, so a reseller does not start with a production-orders menu. Changing either shows a preview first, listing what switches on, what switches off, what background work stops, and which of your own choices are kept. Read that dialog rather than clicking through it. ## Does a model change override my own switches? [#does-a-model-change-override-my-own-switches] No. **A module you switched by hand keeps winning** over a later model change, and the dialog says so. That is usually what you want and occasionally confusing. **Reset to model defaults** throws away your own changes and goes back to what the model says, for a clean slate. ## How are modules grouped? [#how-are-modules-grouped] Into **Core**, **Commerce**, **Supply**, **Manufacturing** and **Wholesale**, each showing how many are on. Row badges tell you where each setting came from: **Always on**, **From your model**, **On by default**, or **Changed**. **Always on** marks the structural modules, Home, Chat and Tasks. Those cannot be switched off in any workspace. ## What actually happens when you switch one off? [#what-actually-happens-when-you-switch-one-off] It disappears from the sidebar and its pages become genuinely unreachable, including from an old bookmark. You get a not-found page rather than a redirect. Nothing inside is deleted. Switching it back on returns everything as it was. Its background work stops too. Turning off Automations stops every automation in the workspace including task due-date reminders, while background data sync keeps running. The dialog names what stops in each case. ## What should you switch off? [#what-should-you-switch-off] The parts you genuinely do not use, because an unused module is a menu item that makes the product harder to learn. A brand that does not sell wholesale should not carry a Wholesale row. A workspace with no Shopify store should not carry Store. What you should **not** do is switch something off to hide it from certain people. That is a permission question, per : a module is off for everybody or on for everybody. ## Why is a module listed with no screen? [#why-is-a-module-listed-with-no-screen] Several are listed so you can see the shape of the product, and have no screen yet: Shipments, Inventory, Forecasting, Assortment planning, Samples, Production orders, Bills of materials, Price lists and Allocation. They can be toggled and nothing appears. Note that the **Inventory** here is the top-level module: the stock screens you actually use live under Store, per . **Approvals** has no toggle of its own, because it rides the Purchase orders module. ## What breaks when somebody switches one off? [#what-breaks-when-somebody-switches-one-off] Anything that depended on it, quietly and immediately. That is worth saying out loud before you change one in a busy workspace. An automation whose module is off records a skipped run saying its automations are dormant, per . An analyst digest button whose module is off is removed from the home page. When somebody reports a missing button or a dead bookmark, this screen is the first place to look. See .