Configure general settings

What this achieves

General settings hold the basic facts about your company that the rest of Humavera reads — its name, where it sits in time, and how dates, language, and money are presented. Getting them right early means every email, export, and report reads correctly from the start.

Required role: Administrator.

Steps

Go to Settings → General.
Enter the Company Name.
Choose the Date Format.
Choose the Timezone.
Choose the Default Language.
Choose the Currency.
Select Save Changes.

Options on this screen

Option	Description
Company Name	Displayed in emails, exported reports, and the workspace switcher.
Date Format	How dates are presented across the workspace.
Timezone	The workspace’s reference timezone.
Default Language	The language new users start in.
Currency	The workspace’s default currency.

The company name travels further than you think

It is displayed in emails, exported reports, and the workspace switcher — so it reaches people outside your HR team, including employees receiving notifications.

Use the name people recognise rather than the registered legal name, unless they are the same. Registered legal names belong on legal entities, which carry their own name for payroll and statutory purposes.

Example: HC Corp UK Ltd is the registered legal entity name used by payroll. If your people call the company something shorter, that is what belongs here.

Timezone and date format

The timezone is the workspace’s reference point, which matters wherever a date boundary decides an outcome — a punch recorded near midnight, a leave request on a period edge, a report run “today”.

Date format is presentation only. Choose the convention your people read without thinking: in the United Kingdom that is day before month, and a workspace showing the American order will be misread by somebody.

Example: 06/04/2026 reads as 6 April to HC Corp UK Ltd’s London staff. The same string means 4 June in another convention, which is a real difference on a leave request.

Default language

This sets the language new users start in. It is a default rather than a lock — individual users have their own language, and Humavera sends notifications in the recipient’s own language.

Currency here is not payroll currency

The currency set here is the workspace default. Payroll currency comes from the legal entity, not from this setting, and Humavera never converts between currencies.

That distinction matters for any company operating in more than one country. Setting the workspace currency to GBP does not make an entity in another country pay in pounds.

Example: HC Corp UK Ltd pays in GBP because its legal entity is set to GBP. A second entity elsewhere pays in its own currency regardless of what this page says.

What happens next

These settings apply across the workspace immediately. If you are setting up a new workspace, do this before inviting people, so the first thing they receive already reads correctly. Company structure — legal entities, their countries and currencies — is configured separately in the organization section.