Setup

Switching off the parts of the platform you do not use

Pental ships more modules than most firms need. How to turn the ones you do not use off so they leave the interface entirely, for your team and your clients.

5 min read

A platform that shows every firm every feature ends up feeling like somebody else’s software. Pental lets you switch modules off, and off means gone from the navigation rather than greyed out with an upsell attached.

What can be switched off

  • Proposals, if you contract another way.
  • Invoicing, if your finance function lives entirely elsewhere.
  • Meetings and the calendar, if scheduling happens in your existing tooling.
  • Client feedback collection, if you gather it yourself.
  • The blog, if you do not publish from the portal.
  • Dashboards, if your team prefers to work from lists.

What it changes

A disabled module disappears from the navigation for your team and from the client portal for your clients. Nothing is deleted: turning a module back on later brings its data with it, so trialling a change is safe.

Modules are not a pricing lever. Every plan includes every feature, and switching one off is about fit rather than cost.

A practical order

Set this up once during onboarding, before anyone forms habits, then revisit it after your first full engagement. The parts nobody opened in a real month of work are the parts to hide. It takes a minute and the interface your team uses afterwards is shaped like your service rather than like a feature list.

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