# Introduction

## Installation of new modules

Before modules can be activated, a sales channel must be created.

To use a module, it must be both installed AND activated. Those are two different processes in hostware If the module is not activated, it is not displayed anywhere. See the two buttons for both processes in this screenshot:

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