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What the modules are
Trackapt's core — groups, items, parameters, forms and reports — tracks anything. The modules are specialised screens for nine operations that are common enough to be worth building properly.
They are not separate systems
Every module works on the items you already keep in Trackapt. A pump that is an item in a tracker group is the same pump the maintenance module schedules, the fleet module fills, and the property module would let if it were a flat.
You do not re-enter anything. Switching a module on adds screens; it takes nothing away and changes nothing that already works.
The nine
| Module | Answers |
|---|---|
| Retail | What is on the shelf, what it cost, and what selling it earned. |
| Maintenance | What is due, what is being worked on, and how available the plant was. |
| Fuel and fleet | Where the diesel went, and whether that is the right amount. |
| Weighbridge | What crossed the bridge, and what somebody gets paid on. |
| Property | Who owes what rent, and how full the buildings are. |
| Procurement | What you have promised to spend, and whether the invoice matches. |
| Time and attendance | Who is on site, who should have been, and how many hours that came to. |
| Micro-finance | Who you can safely lend to, on what terms, and who to collect from today. |
| Mining | What the ground was, what moved, what is under it, and what to take out next. |
Printable guides
Each module also has a user guide as a PDF — the same content, laid out to be printed and kept beside the screen it describes.
Turning one on
A module is an account setting. If you cannot see one in the sidebar it has not been enabled, and you cannot enable it yourself.
See Turning modules on.
Once it is on, anyone already signed in sees it after reloading the app. The account holder who applies a licence key sees it in the sidebar at once. See When a newly switched-on module appears.
Access inside a module
Seven of the nine inherit the access rules you already use: a member sees the items in the tracker groups they are whitelisted on, and nothing else. Jobs, tickets, leases and stock for an item follow that same boundary.
Access comes from the whitelist, not from clearance
A senior member who has not been added to a group will not see its items in a module. If plant, vehicles or products are missing from your screens, ask the group owner or the account holder to add you to the group. Asking for a higher clearance level will not help.
Time and attendance is the exception. It works on people rather than items, so it carries its own rule: you see your own attendance and that of people you are named as a supervisor for. See Who can do what.
Micro-finance is the other. Its borrowers are businesses, not items, so access follows clearance and which loans you collect. See Who can do what.
What every module has in common
- Its landing screen leads with what needs attention, worst first, rather than with a menu.
- Its figures can be checked by hand. Every calculation is documented on the module's own page, because a figure you cannot reproduce on paper is one you cannot defend in a meeting.
- Nothing is quietly assumed. Where a figure could not be worked out, the module says so and lists why, rather than dropping the awkward cases and averaging the rest.
- Every screen offers the same export actions — preview, Excel, PDF, print and share. See Taking data away.