Setting General Display Preferences

Users with the Administrator role can set up general preferences for the account at Setup > Company > General Preferences.

Note:

Any changes you make to general preferences are saved in system notes. For more information, see Searching System Notes.

For many preferences you set at the company level, users can override this preference at Home > Set Preferences. If you don't want users to override particular preferences, on the Overriding Preferences subtab, clear the Allow Override box for each preference.

Preference	Description
Date Format	Select the format for abbreviated dates. For more information, see Formatting for Dates, Numbers, Phone Numbers, and Time.
Long Date Format	Select the format for formal dates. For more information, see Formatting for Dates, Numbers, Phone Numbers, and Time.
Time Format	Select the format for time entries to display online and in printed forms. For more information, see Formatting for Dates, Numbers, Phone Numbers, and Time.
Number Format	Select the format to display numbers entered on transaction forms and entity forms online. For more information, see Formatting for Dates, Numbers, Phone Numbers, and Time.
Negative Number Format	Select the format to display negative numbers entered on transaction forms and entity forms online. For more information, see Formatting for Dates, Numbers, Phone Numbers, and Time.
Phone Number Format	Select a default phone number format. This format is used in all online forms. When users enter phone numbers, they change to this format automatically. For more information, see Formatting for Dates, Numbers, Phone Numbers, and Time.
Use Phone Numbers Without the +1 International Country Calling Code	Check this box to display phone numbers without the +1 area code. This option can be selected for the purposes of improved backward compatibility.
First Day of Week	Select the day to begin each calendar week. Note: If you use Weekly Timesheets, changing the first day affects only new timesheets. Existing timesheets won't change, so you may see shorter timesheets to fit the new setting. Note: Some NetSuite reports use Sunday as the first day of the week, no matter what you set for this preference.
Search Sorting	Select the alphabetical order to use when displaying search results. Select Language Specific to use the alphabetical order specific to your NetSuite language settings. Select English (U.S.) to use the U.S. English alphabetical order.
Add Primary Contact to Bill To Address	Check this box to add the primary contact for each entity to its Bill To address.
Use Last Name First for Employees	Check this box to list employees by last name first for tax and payroll purposes.
Use Last Name First for Entities	Check this box to list all entities (including contacts, customers, partners, and vendors) by last name first for tax and payroll purposes. Note: This preference applies only to new individual entity records. You'll need to do a mass update for existing records.
Pre-Populate Contact Address	Check this box to automatically fill address fields with customer addresses for contacts created from a customer record.
Show Employees as Contacts	Check this box to create a contact record for each employee record. Warning: If you check this box, users with access to contact records can see changes to employee records in the audit trail.
Show Display Name with Item Codes	Check this box to display both item name and display code when an item is selected on transactions and records.

Preference

Description

Date Format

Select the format for abbreviated dates. For more information, see Formatting for Dates, Numbers, Phone Numbers, and Time.

Long Date Format

Select the format for formal dates. For more information, see Formatting for Dates, Numbers, Phone Numbers, and Time.

Time Format

Select the format for time entries to display online and in printed forms. For more information, see Formatting for Dates, Numbers, Phone Numbers, and Time.

Number Format

Select the format to display numbers entered on transaction forms and entity forms online. For more information, see Formatting for Dates, Numbers, Phone Numbers, and Time.

Negative Number Format

Select the format to display negative numbers entered on transaction forms and entity forms online. For more information, see Formatting for Dates, Numbers, Phone Numbers, and Time.

Phone Number Format

Select a default phone number format. This format is used in all online forms. When users enter phone numbers, they change to this format automatically.

For more information, see Formatting for Dates, Numbers, Phone Numbers, and Time.

Use Phone Numbers Without the +1 International Country Calling Code

Check this box to display phone numbers without the +1 area code. This option can be selected for the purposes of improved backward compatibility.

First Day of Week

Select the day to begin each calendar week.

Note:

If you use Weekly Timesheets, changing the first day affects only new timesheets. Existing timesheets won't change, so you may see shorter timesheets to fit the new setting.

Note:

Some NetSuite reports use Sunday as the first day of the week, no matter what you set for this preference.

Search Sorting

Select the alphabetical order to use when displaying search results. Select Language Specific to use the alphabetical order specific to your NetSuite language settings. Select English (U.S.) to use the U.S. English alphabetical order.

Add Primary Contact to Bill To Address

Check this box to add the primary contact for each entity to its Bill To address.

Use Last Name First for Employees

Check this box to list employees by last name first for tax and payroll purposes.

Use Last Name First for Entities

Check this box to list all entities (including contacts, customers, partners, and vendors) by last name first for tax and payroll purposes.

Note:

This preference applies only to new individual entity records. You'll need to do a mass update for existing records.

Pre-Populate Contact Address

Check this box to automatically fill address fields with customer addresses for contacts created from a customer record.

Show Employees as Contacts

Check this box to create a contact record for each employee record.

Warning:

If you check this box, users with access to contact records can see changes to employee records in the audit trail.

Show Display Name with Item Codes

Check this box to display both item name and display code when an item is selected on transactions and records.

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