1. Country-Specific Features
  2. India Help Topics
  3. Setting Up India-specific Preferences

Setting Up India-specific Preferences

To set up your NetSuite account according to India-specific preferences, you must adjust your NetSuite Company settings.

Note:

Make sure that your NetSuite role has the appropriate permissions to set up company preferences for India.

To adjust NetSuite Company settings:

  1. Go to Setup > Company > Company Information and do the following:

    1. In the Currency field, set India Rupee as your company’s base currency.

    2. In the Time Zone field, set (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi as your company’s time zone. To set your personal time zones at Home > Set Preferences.

  2. Go to Setup > Company > General Preferences and do the following:

    1. Set the Date Format field to DD/MM/YYYY.

    2. Set the Long Date Format to D Month YYYY.

For more information about localizing general account preferences in NetSuite, see Set Company Preferences.

Adjusting NetSuite User Preferences

You should set preferences at the company level. User preferences usually override those set for a role, subsidiary, or company. If a user is linked to a subsidiary, that user will inherit the settings from that subsidiary record. For more information, see General Personal Preferences.

To set user preferences for India account:

  1. Go to Home > Set Preferences.

  2. Go to the General subtab and set the following locale-specific preferences:

    1. On the Localization subtab, set Language to English (International).

    2. On the Localization subtab, set Time Zone to (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi.

    3. On the Formatting subtab, set Date Format to DD/MM/YYYY.

      On the Formatting subtab, set Long Date Format to D Month YYYY.

  3. Click Save.

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