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# Importance of locales

Locales are used to determine the right formatting for values in Billings Pro. When you add a new currency in Billings Pro Preferences, observe that the list is sorted by countries. This is because some countries have different conventions and customers in those countries will expect to see things using those conventions.

For example, in some countries the currency symbol is placed after the value. Another one is the use of decimals and commas. Locales are used when generating invoices, estimates and statements. When you preview an invoice, you'll see the proper locale in use (i.e. if you are in the U.S, you'd expect to see 1,089.00, whereas that same value looks like 1.089,00 in most European countries). However, for consistency of display and input in the application, Billings Pro uses the rules of your base currency locale.

## See also

Working with multiple currencies