Internationalization
TimberCloud can operate in your country's conventions — the right date format, number style, currency, and tax wording — so your quotes, invoices, orders, and reports read naturally for you and your customers. This page is for a shop owner setting up a new company; it explains what to set, where, and when.
Availability: Every plan, including Free. Locale and currency are basic company settings, not a paid add-on.
Set this once, before you start invoicing
Your regional settings live in one place and apply company-wide. The most important thing to know: these settings affect new transactions and documents only. Existing quotes, invoices, and orders keep the formatting they were created with. So it's worth setting your country, locale, and currency correctly during onboarding — before you send your first quote — rather than changing it later.
To set them:
- Go to Settings → Company → Locale & Currency Settings.
- Choose your Country/Region.
- Leave Lock to country currency checked to have TimberCloud pick the matching currency and locale for you, or uncheck it to choose your own currency.
- Check the Format Preview — it shows a live sample of how a date, a number, and a money amount will look.
- Click Save Changes.
That's the whole setup. Everything downstream — order PDFs, the storefront, your hosted website, and your Reports — then formats money and dates the same way.
What each setting controls
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Country/Region | The foundation. TimberCloud uses it to suggest your currency and locale, and to pick regional helpers like your tax label and postal-code format. |
| Default Locale | How dates and numbers are written (for example 12/31/2024 vs 31.12.2024, or 1,234.56 vs 1.234,56). |
| Currency | The currency your prices, totals, and payments are expressed in — chosen from the full standard ISO currency list. |
| Currency Symbol | Set automatically from the currency you pick (for example $, €, £). |
Tip: "Lock to country currency" is the easy path — pick your country and TimberCloud fills in a sensible currency and locale. Uncheck it only if you invoice in a currency that differs from where your business is based.
How much of the world is covered
TimberCloud aims to be honest about coverage rather than over-promise. Here's the real picture:
| Area | Coverage today |
|---|---|
| Currency | The full standard ISO currency list is selectable in the currency picker. Whether a given currency can be charged at checkout depends on your own Stripe account — see Currencies. |
| Locale (date & number formatting) | About 26 locales are offered in the picker, spanning the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East. See Locales. |
| Regional field helpers | Tax label, postal-code format, phone formatting, measurement units, and address layout have purpose-built rules for the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. Everywhere else falls back to a sensible default (metric units, a generic "Tax" label, and flexible input formats). Tax wording also recognizes EU countries as "VAT." |
Note: TimberCloud's dashboard labels are in English — setting a locale changes how your data (dates, numbers, money) is formatted, not the language of the buttons and menus. To serve customers in another language, write your product names, descriptions, and messages in that language; see Language Support.
What this touches across TimberCloud
Once your locale and currency are set, the formatting flows everywhere automatically:
- Quotes, acknowledgements, and invoices — dates and money print in your regional style.
- Orders and the order list — totals, taxes, and dates display consistently.
- Reports — revenue, spending, and dates use your company currency and locale. Reports that span multiple currencies show each amount in its own currency.
- Customer-facing surfaces — your embeddable storefront and hosted website present prices in your currency.
Next Steps
- Currencies — choose your company currency and understand decimal handling and checkout support.
- Locales — pick and preview your date/number formatting, and see the regional field helpers.
- Language Support — how to present your catalog and messages in any language.
- Company Settings — where Locale & Currency Settings live.
- Payments — connecting Stripe so you can accept payments in your currency.