Modules
mizuiro is built around the idea that different teams need different tools. A small retail team running daily standups doesn’t need the same setup as a fifty-person operation managing certifications, expense approvals, and formal performance reviews. Modules let you start with what’s useful and add more as you need it.
A module is a self-contained feature area. Tasks is a module. Touchpoints is a module. Performance, Expenses, Kikubari, Polls - all modules. Each one adds a section to your sidebar, its own settings, and usually a set of dashboard widgets.
You turn modules on and off at Settings → Modules. Turning one on makes it immediately available to your whole team. Turning one off removes it from the sidebar and hides its content - nothing is deleted, and you can turn it back on at any time.
It can be tempting to enable everything at once to see what’s there. That usually makes the app feel busier than it needs to be, and your team ends up navigating past things they don’t use yet.
A better approach is to start with the two or three modules that solve an immediate problem, get comfortable with those, and add more when a new need comes up. Most teams find a natural order:
- People is always on - it’s the foundation.
- Tasks and Touchpoints are the most common starting point. Between them they cover most of the day-to-day work of managing a team.
- Presence tends to come next for teams that need visibility into who’s in and who’s away.
- Performance, Incidents, and Expenses usually follow once the basics feel solid.
- The rest - Kikubari, Polls, Training, Conferences, Awards, Kudos - tend to get added as specific needs arise.
There’s no right order, and no pressure to follow this sequence. It’s just a pattern that tends to work.
Most modules are available to all tiers to some degree, but what each person can do within a module depends on their tier. The general pattern:
- Managers have full access to everything in every module.
- Supervisors can typically create and manage records for the people on their team. Some modules let you restrict creation to managers only.
- Employees usually have read access to their own records. A few modules hide everything from employees entirely - Incidents and Performance are examples.
Each module page describes the access breakdown in its At a glance section, and the Settings section covers any toggles that let you adjust who can do what.
Some modules become more useful when paired with another. A few examples:
When Touchpoints and Tasks are both on, action items from a touchpoint can be promoted to full Tasks with one click. When the Task is resolved, the action item closes back on the touchpoint automatically.
When Polls and Kikubari are both on, the “get to know you” poll type becomes available, and employee responses write directly to their Kikubari profiles without any manual data entry.
When Presence is on alongside Training or Conferences, those days show as badges on the presence calendar automatically, so you’re never looking at two separate places to understand why someone is away.
These connections are called out on the relevant module pages as Did you know? callouts, at the point in the walkthrough where they’re most useful. When a connection depends on a second module being enabled, mizuiro handles it quietly - the connected feature is simply hidden if the other module is off, and appears automatically when you turn it on.
Most modules include dashboard widgets - small cards that surface key information on your main dashboard without navigating into the module. Widgets are optional and per-user: anyone can add or remove them from their own dashboard using the Add widget button.
Different tiers often see different data in the same widget - a manager’s overdue task count covers the whole company; a supervisor’s covers their team. Each module page lists its widgets in the Dashboard widgets section.
Once you’ve read one module page you’ll know where to find things on all the others:
- At a glance - what it does, who can use it, and where it lives in the sidebar.
- How to use it - step-by-step walkthroughs for the common tasks.
- Settings - what you can configure.
- Dashboard widgets - what each widget shows, and how the view differs by tier.
- FAQ - questions that come up regularly.
Throughout these docs we use the default tier labels: manager, supervisor, and employee. If you’ve renamed yours - Director / Lead / Associate, or Partner / Manager / Team member, or anything else - substitute your labels as you read. The app already uses your custom labels everywhere.