Change the Language in Erply

March 14, 2024


Optimize customer communications
Say you have a store when a majority of customers prefer to receive receipts in French, but your POS staff prefer to use English. Erply’s language settings can be configured to generate and print sales documents in one language, while allowing the POS to be set at a different language. 

Break language barriers
Multi-lingual internal communications shouldn’t slow down your day-to-day business processes. Erply’s language settings can vary by store or POS user so everyone to keep all of your employees on the same page.

Languages supported in Brazil POS

Erply supports the following 12 languages:
Arabic, Saudi Arabia
Czech
English, United States
English, Australia
English, United Kingdom
English, South Africa
Estonian
Finnish
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Russian (in progress)
Faroese (in progress)
Turkish (in progress)

Languages supported in Berlin POS

Erply supports the following 23 languages:
Arabic, Saudi Arabia
Chinese Simplified
Danish
Dutch
English, Australia
English, United States
Estonian
Faroese
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Indonesian
Italian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Norwegian
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Turkish

How to change the language in Erply

The default standard language in Erply is chosen based on your region. Please note that only users with the proper level of user rights may edit the default language in your Erply account. 
In order to add extra defauöt languages to your account to be able to choose please contact Erply customer support.

Changing the language in the back office 

1. In the back office, navigate to the Settings module and select Configuration.
2. Navigate to the General section. 
You can select a new default back office language from the default language dropdown menu.

Note: Only languages downloaded to your Erply account will populate as a language option.
3. Select Save.

Changing the default language for document types

1. In the back office, navigate to the Settings module and select Configuration.
2. Navigate to the Sending invoices by e-mail section. 
Erply will allow you to select a default language for invoices, waybills, receipts, quotes, and more.

Note: Only languages downloaded to your Erply account will populate as a language option.
3. Select Save.

Changing the language at the POS

1. At the POS, navigate to Settings and locate the Device-specific section. Select Set Language.

2. Check off a language that you would like the POS to be set to.
Please note only 1 language may be selected at a time.
3. Select Done.

Note: if the default language is selected for the POS the language will be used that is configured in the BO -> Settings -> Configuration -> Default language.