Your venue's currency

The currency decides what your money is counted in — service prices, deposits, reports, the statement you hand your accountant. You set it once, in one place, and then almost never touch it again.

Next to it, on the same screen, sits the Time zone. Both get read as “small technical details”, but one decides what the money is counted in and the other decides when — that is, which day counts as “today” for your till. Hence one article for both.

1. Where to set it

1. Pick your board in the left sidebar.
2. Click Setup.
3. Open Settings.
4. Currency and Time zone are in the first section.

Under Currency there is a hint: the default currency for every price on this board. Under Time zone: every time on this board — slots, working hours — is calculated in it.

Both save the moment you choose. You will see a green “Currency saved” or “Time zone saved”. There is no separate Save button.

The currency field is searchable — start typing “euro” or “EUR” and the list narrows. If nothing matches you will get “No currency found”; check the spelling.

2. The currency belongs to the board, not to you

This is the most common misunderstanding, so let us be blunt about it.

The currency is not a setting on:

• your personal profile;
• the workspace;
• the interface language.

It is a setting on that specific board. One board = one venue = one currency.

Which has a practical consequence: if you run two salons and set them up as two boards, each has its own currency. One can be in euros and the other in leva, and that is perfectly normal — they are separate tills with separate reports.

Language has nothing to do with currency. You can run the interface in Bulgarian with prices in euros, or the other way round. Switching language under User → Language does not touch the money.

3. Time zone: which day is “today” for the till

Every figure in the Money section is grouped by the board’s own calendar days, not by your computer’s clock.

That sounds like a triviality until this happens: the salon is in Sofia, you are checking the report from a holiday in London, and “today” on your screen is not “today” at the salon. Or, far more often — you work late, midnight passes, and the payment you just recorded lands in tomorrow.

So:

• Day report shows the day in the board’s time zone;
• Finish the day closes that same day;
• Statement cuts the period on the same boundaries.

Set the time zone to where the venue physically is. A salon in Sofia means Europe/Sofia, no matter where you are.

4. Changing the currency: nothing is recalculated

This is the most important paragraph in the article.

Changing the currency only changes the label. The numbers stay exactly as they were.

An example. A service costs 100. The currency is leva, so you see 100 BGN. You switch the currency to euros. The service now reads 100 EUR.

Not 51. Not 100 divided by anything. One hundred. Same number, different letters beside it.

The same is true of the past: every recorded payment, every deposit, every package sold starts displaying in the new currency, even though the money at the time was in the old one. Last month’s report will say “EUR” for amounts that were leva.

There is no currency conversion anywhere in the system. Not on this switch, and not in the reports. If a period contains amounts in different currencies, they are not combined at some exchange rate — you simply get a warning line saying the period also holds amounts in other currencies.

Which means changing the currency is genuinely sensible in exactly one situation: right after creating the board, when you picked the wrong one and no payment exists yet.

If your venue is really migrating to another currency (as Bulgaria did with the euro), do not expect this switch to fix your history. That is not what it is for.

5. If payments already exist — the confirmation

The system knows how dangerous this is and pushes back.

If the board already has at least one recorded payment or a sold package, switching raises a question:

“Change the currency from BGN to EUR?”

The text tells you exactly how many movements will be relabelled. That number is not decoration — it is the size of the mess you are about to make. If it says 412 payments, then 412 rows in your history will change their label without changing their value.

You have two options:

• Change currency — proceed, knowing what you are doing;
• close the dialog — nothing changes.

On a fresh board with no payments at all, this question never appears — the switch happens straight away.

6. Your Mountify subscription is a separate bill

One more place people get confused.

The currency discussed here is the currency of your money — what your clients pay you.

The subscription you pay Mountify is an entirely different thing. It is billed in euros and does not depend on your board’s currency in any way. Change the board currency and your plan price does not move.

The two tills never touch:

7. A check before you go live

Before the first real booking, run through this short list:

1. The currency is the one you actually take money in. Not “roughly that one”.
2. The time zone is the venue’s, not your personal one.
3. Open your public page and look at a price through a client’s eyes.
4. If you changed the currency at any point — open a service and confirm the number is what you expect.

Five minutes now saves cleaning up reports later.

What’s next

• Payments & revenue — where every movement is collected.
• Day and month reports — how “money received” is calculated and why the days start where they do.
• Pricing & modifiers — how a service’s price itself is set.