Country and Region

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Introduction

Countries and regions are basic settings to share within Openbravo.

Countries and regions are basic settings to share within Openbravo.

Countries and their corresponding regions are automatically created and listed in this window once Openbravo installation is completed.
All these countries and regions are linked to the system organization (*), that means that those countries and regions will be shared by all the organizations in the system.

Country

This window allows to visualize and/or to create and maintain the countries and the regions to be used in daily business activities.

As shown in the image above country relevant data is:

• the country ISO code.
  • Country ISO codes are world wide used codes for the representation of the countries.
• the address print format.
• whether it has any kind of regions such as states or not. "Has regions" flag needs to be enable to enter regions in the Region tab.
• the region name
• the country IBAN code of the country
  • IBAN or International Bank Account Number is a system of numbering that was created to categorize the bank accounts world wide.
• the country IBAN code lenght of the country.
• the Phone number format
• the default language
• and the default currency

Translation

Countries and regions can be translated to any language.

Region

Regions tab allows to visualize and/or to create and maintain the regions of any type of a country.

Country regions are simply defined by a name and a description.

Full list of Country and Region window fields and their descriptions is available in the Country and Region Screen Reference.

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