# What Finance settings covers

The seventeen screens behind the gear, the five groups they sit in, and which of them are documented elsewhere.

Finance settings hold the decisions the whole organisation works from: who you are on a document, what tax you charge, how documents are numbered, what a customer sees in the portal, and which modules Finance offers at all. They apply to everybody, not just to you.

## Five groups, seventeen screens

![Finance Settings, headed with a cog and a red cross at the top right. A column on the left lists the settings screens under five headings: GENERAL holds Organisation, Users & Roles, Taxes, Payment Terms, Portal, Email Preferences and Preferences; MODULES holds Sales, Purchases, Items, Inventory and Accountant; CUSTOMIZATION holds Templates, Tags and Notifications; AUTOMATION holds Workflow Automation with a Beta pill; ADVANCED holds Integrations. Organisation is selected, and its pane carries tabs reading Profile, Warehouses, Currencies and Number Series. The Profile tab is open on Organisation Profile, with an Upload logo circle, Organisation Name reading Ironvale Industry, Industry set to Manufacturing, a read-only Organisation ID, an Address of Unit 12 Templeborough Industrial Estate, Sheffield Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 1DX, United Kingdom, and Contact details below. A Cancel and Save bar sits at the foot.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/settings/settings-rail.png)

*The rail on the left is the whole surface. Each screen splits into tabs of its own, and every one of them saves from the bar at the foot.*

**General** is the organisation: who you are, who gets in, and what every document inherits.

- **Organisation**: Your profile, warehouses, currencies and document numbering.
- **Users and Roles**: Who has access to Finance, and what each role may do.
- **Taxes**: Tax rates, your registration, and how you file.
- **Payment Terms**: The due-date rules every document offers.
- **Portal**: The self-service site your customers and vendors sign in to.
- **Email Preferences**: The addresses Finance sends from, and how they are authenticated.
- **Preferences**: Which modules Finance offers, and the workspace defaults.

**Modules** is one screen per part of Finance, and each of those screens is documented beside the records it configures rather than here.

- **Module settings**: Sales, Purchases, Items, Inventory and Accountant, and where each tab is written up.

**Customization**, **Automation** and **Advanced** are what you change once the basics are in place.

- **Templates**: The PDF layout and the covering email for every document type.
- **Tags**: The labels you file contacts, items and transactions under.
- **Notifications**: How and when Finance tells you something happened.
- **Workflow Automation**: Rules that fire an email or a notification when a record changes.
- **Integrations**: Your shipping carrier accounts and your payment provider.

## Opening, saving and closing

The gear at the right of the Finance header opens settings from wherever you are. It is labelled **Finance Settings**, and it remembers the screen you came from, so the cross at the top right puts you back there rather than on the Finance overview.

Screens are down the left, grouped; tabs run along the top of the pane. Every screen saves the same way, from the bar at the foot: **Save** stays greyed out until something actually differs from what is stored, so a disabled button means nothing has changed yet, and **Cancel** puts the screen back.

> **Note:**
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> **Leaving with unsaved changes prompts you**
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> Moving to another settings screen, or closing settings, while an edit is pending raises a confirmation rather than discarding it quietly.

## Your rail may be shorter than this one

Two things decide what you see, and they work independently.

- **Your role**: Settings are granted per section. A role given Taxes and nothing else opens the gear and finds Taxes. Some screens, Organisation among them, stay visible to everybody and read-only, which is how anybody can check the company address without being able to change it.
- **Your enabled modules**: A tab that configures a module the organisation has switched off is removed, and a screen whose every tab has gone is removed with it. Turning quotes off takes the Quotes tab out of Sales settings.

A screen that opens with every control greyed out is the first of those, and a tab that has vanished since you last used it is usually the second.