## Selecting Regional Settings

To make regional settings, go to the Configuration Director - Miscellaneous Settings - Regional Settings.

The regional settings include:

- The language;
- The default time zone;
- The calendar settings (the first day of week);
- The system-wide currency.
- Selecting languages available for your customers to switch the interface.

Language

The language setting allows you to set the system-wide language of the Parallels Business Automation - Standard interface.

Default Time Zone

In respect to registration of the events that happen within the system, the Parallels Business Automation - Standard database is bound to GMT. This means that automatically-generated notifications and system messages (for example, about subscriptions expiration dates) may occur to be hardly understandable for the customers that reside in the other time zones.

Thus, the Parallels Business Automation - Standard provides an opportunity of setting different time zones for different Customers (or Resellers). This can be done during creation of a new Account or later. The special time zone can be set for each user associated with an Account. After this, all the time-related data (in Action Log, Event Manager, or automatically-generated notifications) will be bound to the User's time zone, without the need for him (or her) to recalculate time.

However, if most of your prospect customers will reside in the single time zone, it is quite reasonable to set default time zone for the newly registered persons.

First Day of Week

You can select the day a week starts. For example, this setting is used when setting the weekly time interval in the Billing Reports view.

Currency

You can set the system-wide currency (for all financial documents and Hosting Plan prices). Resellers can set the own currency and enter the cross rate between the Provider currency and Reseller currency. This feature is very useful for selling through international channels as well as having separate branches in different countries around the world.

Note: Parallels Business Automation - Standard is a single-currency system. In other words automatic currency recalculations are not available. If you change the system-wide currency, you will have the unified currency sign, fractional part format, etc., however you will need to recalculate all prices manually. For example, most of domain-registration Plug-Ins support US Dollar only as an accounting currency. Thus, in order to update domain-registration prices correctly the system-wide currency should be US Dollar by prices update, otherwise the new prices will not be used in Parallels Business Automation - Standard billing.

Available Languages

Check the boxes next to language names to allow your customers to switch the interface into these languages. The list of languages in this section is comprised of the languages shipped within separate language packs with Parallels Business Automation - Standard kit and installed during the HSPC system configuration.

In This Section Making the System-Wide Regional Settings

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