---
title: "Settings"
slug: admin/settings
url: https://projectri.com/docs/admin/settings
section: admin
audience: admin
app_route: "/[slug]/admin/settings"
permissions: [settings.view, settings.manage]
mobile: "/admin/settings"
updated: 2026-09-08
source: Projectri documentation
---

# Settings

Branding, region, locale, the working week and storage policy — the tenant preferences that every other screen in Projectri reads.

![Settings](https://projectri.com/docs-shots/admin-settings.png)

## What it is

Settings holds the workspace's preferences: its accent colour and email
header/footer, the country it operates in and the currency it reports in, the
timezone, date format and language, the working week, and the storage limits.

Almost everything on this page is an input to something else. The working week
in particular is the denominator of every capacity and utilisation figure in the
product.

## How to get there

**Admin → Organization → Settings**. The console needs the ADMIN role. Reading
the page is keyed on `settings.view`; saving is `settings.manage`. The Region
card disables its own controls for anybody without `settings.manage` rather than
letting them type into a form that will be refused.

## How to use it

### Set the region

1. In the **Region** card, pick the **Country**.
2. The hint under the picker says what it will do — *"Sets the working week
   (Sun – Thu), timezone and date format."*
3. Press **Save region**. Changing the country re-derives the timezone, the date
   format and the working week from the country's own conventions.
4. Correcting the **Reporting currency** alone does not re-derive anything. Only
   a country move does.

### Change the reporting currency

1. Pick one in the **Reporting currency** row and save.
2. If the picker is disabled and says *Locked*, this workspace already has
   financial records stored in that currency and it cannot be changed. See the
   warning below.

### Tune the working week

1. In **Working time**, toggle the days that are working days. At least one is
   required.
2. **Week starts on** decides which day every calendar and week-based report
   begins with.
3. **Business hours** is the span of the day, local to the timezone above.
4. **Hours per day** is billable capacity, which is usually less than that span.
5. The card footer does the arithmetic for you — *"Capacity per person per week
   is 40.0 hours — 5 working days × 8h."*

### Set the locale

**Timezone**, **Currency**, **Date format** and **Language** are in the Locale
card. These are display preferences; the reporting currency in the Region card
is a different thing and lives apart from them on purpose.

### Branding and storage

1. **Accent colour** takes one of eight presets or a hex value, and can be
   returned to the default.
2. **Email header** and **Email footer** appear on outbound mail.
3. **Maximum upload size** is in MB, between 1 and 2048, and applies to
   attachments and document files.
4. **Retention** optionally sets a number of days after which soft-deleted items
   are permanently removed.

The save bar at the bottom appears once something is dirty, and only the fields
you actually changed are sent — so saving the branding card cannot overwrite a
locale value another admin changed thirty seconds ago.

## What it affects

- **Capacity and utilisation.** Working days × hours per day is the weekly
  capacity every person is measured against on
  [Workload](/docs/admin/workload) and on the utilisation reports. A wrong
  working week does not produce an error — it produces wrong percentages
  everywhere, quietly.
- **What "today" means.** The timezone decides the boundary the dashboard, the
  calendar and every "due today" count use.
- **Week-based reports.** The week start decides where a week begins in the
  calendar, the timesheet grid and every weekly rollup.
- **Money.** The reporting currency is the unit of every stored financial
  figure. Contracts, clients and expenses keep their own currency and convert
  into it at the rate in force on the day.
- **Uploads.** The maximum upload size is enforced on attachments and document
  files.
- **Outbound email.** The accent colour, header and footer are applied to mail
  this workspace sends.

## On mobile

The app's **Workspace settings** screen carries the name and the locale block —
timezone, currency, date format, language, week start and the working days. Those
are the values that show up everywhere else in the product. The branding hex
fields and the retention policy stay on the web, where there is a colour picker
and room to read the consequences.

The name and the settings save through two different routes, and both are
partial writes, so saving one card on the phone cannot clobber an edit made from
a laptop a second earlier.

## Limits and gotchas

> [!WARNING]
> **Getting the country wrong breaks utilisation silently.** Setting a Gulf
> workspace to a Monday–Friday week — or a European one to Sunday–Thursday —
> produces a capacity denominator that is wrong on every person, and nothing
> errors. The percentages simply do not mean what they say. Set the country
> before anybody logs time.

> [!WARNING]
> **The reporting currency freezes once money exists.** Financial records are
> stored in it without a currency tag of their own, so changing it would not
> convert history — it would reinterpret it. Once any financial record has been
> written the picker is locked. If a country change implies a currency the
> ledger will not accept, the country lands and the currency stays; the toast
> says so explicitly rather than reporting a clean success.

- At least one working day is required. The screen refuses an empty set before
  sending it, and the server refuses it too.
- The working day must end after it starts.
- **Retention is stored as policy and nothing sweeps on it yet.** The screen says
  so under the card. Turning it on does not currently purge anything.
- The country picker is searchable and grouped by region. A non-contiguous
  working week — Saturday to Wednesday, say — is described as a comma list
  rather than a range, because it is not one.
- The workspace name and slug are not here; they are on
  [Company](/docs/admin/company).

## Related

- [Company](/docs/admin/company) — the name, mark, slug and subscription.
- [Workload](/docs/admin/workload) — where the working week becomes a capacity figure.
- [Utilisation](/docs/workspace/utilization) — the report the same denominator drives.
- [Languages and locale](/docs/features/languages-and-locale) — how language and formats are applied.

## Related

- [Company](https://projectri.com/docs/admin/company.md): The workspace name, its mark and its URL slug, with the live subscription underneath — plan, cost, renewal and how much of it is in use.
- [Workload](https://projectri.com/docs/admin/workload.md): Who is carrying what and who has room — open tasks, overdue work and logged hours against each person's weekly capacity, with the capacity and skills editable in place.
- [Utilization](https://projectri.com/docs/workspace/utilization.md): Logged hours as a percentage of capacity, measured against the target for each person's role, with twelve periods of history behind every name.
- [Languages, dates and the working week](https://projectri.com/docs/features/languages-and-locale.md): The eight locales Projectri formats in, the two it speaks, right-to-left layout, and the one setting that decides which days of the week count as work.
