Currency and tax basics

Every amount in ORAVA — prices, invoices, receipts, reports — is in your business's currency. Set it right before your first sale.

Choose your currency

1. Open Branding Settings (an administrator does this).
2. Under Regional Settings, pick your Currency and save.

A new business starts in US dollars, so if you work in another currency, change it before you record anything.

Why it locks
As soon as the business has a sale, an estimate, a purchase or an expense, the currency is locked and the setting shows why. Changing it later would make every past total and report wrong, because ORAVA does not convert amounts. Adding products does not lock it.

Need to change a locked currency?
Contact support at support@useorava.com. Support can relabel the currency for you; existing amounts keep their numbers and are not converted, so it is only right when the amounts were already in the new currency.

Taxes
Currency and tax are set separately:

• Turn on sales tax or VAT and set your rates — see Set up sales tax / VAT.
• Give products a tax category when some are taxed differently — see Assign tax categories to products.
• Auto shops also choose whether labor and parts are taxable in the shop settings.

Receipts and invoices show the tax breakdown with your template — see Design your receipts and invoices.