Setting Language & Region Preferences

Your Language & Region preferences control the display language of Leasecake and how dates, numbers, and measurements appear throughout your lease records and schedules. Setting these correctly ensures rent amounts, commencement dates, and payment schedules read the way you expect for your location.

What You Can Set

The Language & Region area groups several related preferences. Each one applies to your own account and changes how information is displayed to you, not to other members of your workspace.

•Language — the language Leasecake's menus, labels, and messages appear in.

•Region — the country or locale that drives default formatting conventions.

•Date format — how dates such as lease commencement and expiration are written, for example day-month-year or month-day-year.

•Number format — how figures like rent amounts are shown, including the decimal and thousands separators.

•Measurement format — the units used for premises sizes and other measured values.

•Time zone — the zone used when timestamps and deadlines are displayed.

Updating Your Preferences

1.Open Preferences and select Language & Region.

2.Choose your language from the list of available languages.

3.Select your region, which sets sensible defaults for the format options below.

4.Adjust the date, number, and measurement formats if you want something different from the regional default.

5.Set your time zone so deadlines and timestamps display in your local time.

6.Save your changes.

Selecting a region first fills in matching date, number, and measurement defaults, so you usually only need to fine-tune one or two of them afterward.

Why Time Zone Matters for Lease Dates

Leasecake uses your time zone to display deadlines such as option notice dates and period-close cutoffs. Because lease lifecycle events — like when a lease commences or expires — are evaluated against calendar dates, keeping an accurate time zone helps ensure these transitions line up with your local expectations.

These preferences affect only how information is shown to you. They do not change the underlying lease data, the stored amounts, or how schedules are calculated.

Related topics: Completing the Onboarding Wizard, Configuring Rent Obligations and Escalations, Running a Period Close.