I think I read somewhere that you have to manually place the PCB module as well - EasyEDA doesn't have a true repeating macro function like some other PCB systems.

OK, I tried the hard way: 1) place N copies of the schematic-module in the main schematic 2) create the pcb from the schematic 3) remove all components from the pcb and place N copies of the pcb-module 4) rename all components in the N PCB modules to have prefixes identical to the ones in the schematic 5) go to the main schematic and do "update PCB", hoping this would add the ratline connecting components 6) edit the net in all tracks copied from the pcb-modules This work, but it is a tremendous amount of repetitive work. I guess I will make a feature request.