Enable General Company International Features

Enable the following features on the Company subtab of the Enable Features page at Setup > Company > Enable Features.

Feature	Description
Multi-Language	Check this box to do the following: Allow users to choose the language of the NetSuite user interface. See Choosing a Language for Your NetSuite User Interface. Allow customers to see item names, descriptions, and expense categories in the language selected on the customer's record on printed transaction forms. Allow translation of website elements to display in each visitor's language. These elements include website items, saved searches, tabs, categories, email forms, text, and images, and formatted website text. See Setting Up a Site for Multiple Languages. Only the system-supported languages available as user preferences are available for printed transaction forms. Additional languages are supported for website translations. At Setup > Company > General Preferences, you need to specify the languages for which you want to provide translation strings for items on printed transaction forms or your website or both. See Configuring Multiple Languages. After specifying a language in General Preferences, you can translate item names and descriptions on item records or at Lists > Mass Update > Bulk Update Translation. See Working With Multi-Language Names and Descriptions.
Multiple Currencies	Important: In a past release, the Multiple Currencies, Multi-Currency Customers, and Multi-Currency Vendors features were combined in the Multiple Currencies feature. If you're already using Multiple Currencies and Multi-Currency Customers or Multi-Currency Vendors but not all three features, you see three boxes on the Company subtab. If you're new to NetSuite, already using all three features, or not using all three features, only the Multiple Currencies box is available. When you enable the Multiple Currencies feature, you gain access to support for multiple currency customers and vendors. Regardless of the number of boxes on the Company subtab, the functionality associated with these three features remains the same. Use foreign currencies for sales and purchase transactions and account for the fluctuations in exchange rates. This feature enables the creation of sales transactions in multiple currencies for individual customers and to track open balances in each transaction currency. This feature also enables you to enter purchase transactions in multiple currencies for individual vendors, and keep track of open balances in each transaction currency. When you create a vendor record, you set a primary currency and additional currencies available for transactions with that vendor. See Currency Management. When you enable Foreign Currency Management in Multi-Book Accounting, this feature is also required and can't be disabled. Note: After qualifying revaluation transactions, the system generates the Realized Gain/Loss, Unrealized Gain/Loss, Unrealized Matching Gain/Loss, and Rounding Gain/Loss accounts. Depending on the year when your NetSuite account was established, you may also have the Exchange Rate Variance account.
Currency Exchange Rate Integration	Automatically update currency exchange rates by the specified provider one time each day. Agree to the Notice, as required. NetSuite stores the user ID and time and date stamp of account changes in system notes. Click Forex Data provider to go to its website. Note: To choose an exchange rate provider, method for obtaining exchange rates, and anchor currencies, go to Setup > Accounting > Preferences > Accounting Preferences. On the General subtab, under Exchange Rate Integration, select a Rate Provider. For more information, see Exchange Rate Integration.
Currency Exchange Rate Types	Store multiple currency exchange rates for a currency pair and date. Unless you enable this feature, you can have only one exchange rate for each currency pair and date combination. You can't disable the Currency Exchange Rate Types feature after you enable it. For help with this feature, see Currency Exchange Rate Types.
Worldwide Support for Phone Number Formatting	Enable international and national phone number formatting for this role.

Feature

Description

Multi-Language

Check this box to do the following:

Allow users to choose the language of the NetSuite user interface. See Choosing a Language for Your NetSuite User Interface.
Allow customers to see item names, descriptions, and expense categories in the language selected on the customer's record on printed transaction forms.
Allow translation of website elements to display in each visitor's language. These elements include website items, saved searches, tabs, categories, email forms, text, and images, and formatted website text. See Setting Up a Site for Multiple Languages.

Only the system-supported languages available as user preferences are available for printed transaction forms. Additional languages are supported for website translations.

At Setup > Company > General Preferences, you need to specify the languages for which you want to provide translation strings for items on printed transaction forms or your website or both. See Configuring Multiple Languages. After specifying a language in General Preferences, you can translate item names and descriptions on item records or at Lists > Mass Update > Bulk Update Translation. See Working With Multi-Language Names and Descriptions.

Multiple Currencies

Important:

In a past release, the Multiple Currencies, Multi-Currency Customers, and Multi-Currency Vendors features were combined in the Multiple Currencies feature. If you're already using Multiple Currencies and Multi-Currency Customers or Multi-Currency Vendors but not all three features, you see three boxes on the Company subtab. If you're new to NetSuite, already using all three features, or not using all three features, only the Multiple Currencies box is available. When you enable the Multiple Currencies feature, you gain access to support for multiple currency customers and vendors. Regardless of the number of boxes on the Company subtab, the functionality associated with these three features remains the same.

Use foreign currencies for sales and purchase transactions and account for the fluctuations in exchange rates. This feature enables the creation of sales transactions in multiple currencies for individual customers and to track open balances in each transaction currency. This feature also enables you to enter purchase transactions in multiple currencies for individual vendors, and keep track of open balances in each transaction currency. When you create a vendor record, you set a primary currency and additional currencies available for transactions with that vendor. See Currency Management.

When you enable Foreign Currency Management in Multi-Book Accounting, this feature is also required and can't be disabled.

Note:

After qualifying revaluation transactions, the system generates the Realized Gain/Loss, Unrealized Gain/Loss, Unrealized Matching Gain/Loss, and Rounding Gain/Loss accounts. Depending on the year when your NetSuite account was established, you may also have the Exchange Rate Variance account.

Currency Exchange Rate Integration

Automatically update currency exchange rates by the specified provider one time each day.

Agree to the Notice, as required. NetSuite stores the user ID and time and date stamp of account changes in system notes.

Click Forex Data provider to go to its website.

Note:

To choose an exchange rate provider, method for obtaining exchange rates, and anchor currencies, go to Setup > Accounting > Preferences > Accounting Preferences. On the General subtab, under Exchange Rate Integration, select a Rate Provider. For more information, see Exchange Rate Integration.

Currency Exchange Rate Types

Store multiple currency exchange rates for a currency pair and date. Unless you enable this feature, you can have only one exchange rate for each currency pair and date combination. You can't disable the Currency Exchange Rate Types feature after you enable it.

For help with this feature, see Currency Exchange Rate Types.

Worldwide Support for Phone Number Formatting

Enable international and national phone number formatting for this role.

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