You will switch the console between English, Arabic and Urdu, set your company time zone so booking times show in local time, and check where the currency comes from. You need this when your team reads Arabic or Urdu, or when your company works in a different time zone from the default.
Look at the top bar of any screen. The language menu shows a globe and the name of the current language. Open it and you see three rows: English, العربية (Arabic) and اردو (Urdu). Your choice is remembered in this browser, so you only set it once on each computer.
Choose العربية. The whole console turns right to left at once, with no reload: the side menu moves to the right edge, headings and cards line up on the right and the top bar mirrors. Urdu does the same. Choose English to return to left to right.
Go to Admin > Dispatch Settings. The whole page, its heading, section titles (automatic dispatch, basic settings, tie-break rule and scoring weights), options and help text, such as automatic dispatch and the escalation time in minutes, is shown in Arabic (or in Urdu), with the checkboxes and numbers on the right, and a range such as "from 0 to 120 minutes" keeps its numbers in order. The menus around it, the dashboard and most other screens are still shown in English for now, so a page may mix both languages.
Go to Admin > Settings, open Organisation and find Time zone. Each zone shows its current UTC offset. Type a city or an offset in the search box, for example karachi or UTC+5, pick Karachi, Asia, UTC+5, and click Save Changes. A message Saved - Organisation details updated appears. Open Dispatch > Bookings: the Scheduled times now follow that zone and show the offset, for example 06:00 GMT+5. If you type or send a zone that does not exist, the server refuses it and the old zone stays.
Currency does not come from the language or the time zone. Open Admin > Settings > Jurisdiction. It shows your Current Jurisdiction (here GB-LONDON) and Currency (GBP). To change it, pick another jurisdiction in Change Jurisdiction and click Apply Jurisdiction, then sign in again so every fare shows the new currency. Below it, a separate Default Zone Re-seeding card can re-create the default zones for the current jurisdiction.
| Mistake | What you see | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Expecting every screen to change language | Menus and many pages stay in English | Dispatch Settings is translated; other screens follow later |
| Changing the time zone to change the currency | Fares still show pounds | Change the jurisdiction under Settings > Jurisdiction instead |
| Not signing in again after a new jurisdiction | Old currency on some fare displays | Sign out and in again |
| Item | Meaning / rule |
|---|---|
| Language menu | Top bar; English, Arabic, Urdu; remembered per browser |
| Right to left | Arabic and Urdu mirror the whole layout |
| Time zone | Company setting under Settings > Organisation; bookings follow it |
| Jurisdiction | Sets the currency, VAT and surge defaults |
Does my language choice change for my colleagues? No. It is stored in your own browser, so each person picks their own.
Does changing the time zone change old bookings? No. The stored times stay the same moment; they are only displayed in the new zone.
Can I change date or number format? Not yet. There is no setting for it, and dates keep the day month year style.
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