# Localization Settings

https://docs.wisecp.com/de/localization-settings

Set the default language, currency, country, date format, time zone, and the service used to detect a visitor's location.

## Opening the Screen

Open **Settings › General**, then choose the **Localization** tab: `{admin}/settings?general=localisation`

## What Is on the Screen

One form groups language and region defaults, display formats, and location detection under a single **Save** button.

## Fields

- **Default Opening Language**: The language a visitor sees first. With Auto Detect, the language is chosen from the visitor's browser language setting instead.
- **Default Language**: The panel's primary language. It's the one language whose tab is always open on multi-language fields across the panel. Its value can still be left empty, like any other language.
- **Default Currency**: The currency you operate in. It becomes the site's base currency, with an exchange rate of 1.
- **Default Country**: The country you operate in.
- **Date Format**: How dates are shown in the panel and on the site. This changes the display only, not how dates are stored.
- **Time Zone**: The time zone used for dates and times in the panel and on the site.
- **IP Location Module**: The service used to detect a visitor's location. Selecting one shows that module's own settings below it, if it has any.

## Tasks

### Set your regional defaults

1. Open **Settings › General › Localization**.
2. Choose the Default Opening Language, Default Language, Default Currency, Default Country, Date Format, and Time Zone you want.
3. Click **Save**. The panel and site apply the new values right away.

## Things to Watch

> **Changing the currency resets exchange rates**
> 
> The currency you pick becomes the base currency (rate 1), and every other currency's rate is recalculated against it.

> **Country affects national ID verification**
> 
> The default country also seeds the country on new client records and preselects it on address forms. It does not switch any Clients tab field on or off: those fields follow their own switches and apply to every client regardless of country.

> **Default Language sets which language is required elsewhere**
> 
> Multi-language fields on other tabs, such as Basic and SEO, always require this language; every other language stays optional.

## Required Privileges

Opening **Settings › General** needs `SETTINGS_INFORMATIONS_CONFIGURE`. Viewing and saving the Localization tab additionally needs `SETTINGS_LOCALIZATION_CONFIGURE`.

## Related Articles

- [General Settings Overview](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/general-settings-overview)
- [Basic Settings](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/basic-settings)
- [SEO Settings](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/seo-settings)
- [Currencies](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/currencies)
- [Languages](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/languages)