Beelocity deals with language in two separate places. If you tell them apart, you avoid a lot of confusion. The language that you read the screens in belongs to you. The language that a document prints in belongs to that document. It follows the client or supplier that the document is addressed to, and not you.
You set them in different places, on purpose. Changing one never changes the other.
The language you read
Your language is stored on your account, so it follows you to any computer that you sign in on. To choose it, click the square with your initials in the top corner, choose Language, and pick one. The screen changes at once, with nothing to save and nothing to reload.
If you have never chosen a language, Beelocity starts from your browser’s language. If it does not offer that language, it uses English.
Beelocity offers all three languages, and the app’s screens are complete in each one. A language appears in that menu only when it is complete. A half-translated screen is harder to work with than a screen in a language that you did not pick.
Before you sign in
Anyone can read the public pages without an account: the home page, the module pages and the release
notes. Each one exists in all three languages, at its own address. The home page is at
beelocity.com in English, beelocity.com/fr/ in French and beelocity.com/ar/ in Arabic. If your
browser reads French or Arabic, beelocity.com takes you straight to the page in your language,
unless you chose English on this computer. A link to the French page opens in French, whoever opens
it.
To read another language, pick it at the foot of the page, beside the version line. Each language is written in its own name, and the same page comes back in the language that you pick. Beelocity remembers the choice on this computer, so the sign-in page and the app open in that language too. After you sign in, the language on your account decides again.
What’s new, in your language too
The Releases page lists what changed in each version of Beelocity, in all three languages. On a public page, open it from the footer. In the app, click the square with your initials, choose More, then Releases.
Releases published before Beelocity was translated stay in English. If you open one of them, a line above the notes tells you so. You have not missed a setting, and there is nothing to switch.
This guide, in your language too
This guide is written in all three languages. The Docs link opens it in the language that you read the screens in, so you do not have to look for the right version. On a public page, the link is in the footer. In the app, click the square with your initials, choose More, then Docs.
To move between languages while you read, use the language menu in the bar at the top of every page. It keeps your place. The page that you were reading comes back in the language that you picked. You do not land on the front page of the guide.
The language your documents print in
The client who receives an invoice reads it, so the invoice is written in their language and not in yours. A salesperson who reads French and sends an invoice to an Arabic-speaking client sends an Arabic invoice, and that is correct.
Beelocity works this out for each document, in this order, and it never asks when you print:
- The client’s or supplier’s own document language, on their partner record.
- Your organization’s default document language, on its Organization Profile.
- Your organization’s working language, which you chose when you created it.
Your own language is not on the list. To get an Arabic invoice, set the client’s document language once on their partner record. Every document that you send them then arrives in Arabic. See Printing and Sharing Documents for printing itself.
Which is which, at a glance
| Where you set it | Who it follows | What it changes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interface language | The menu behind your initials | You | Menus, buttons, column headings, help |
| Document language | The partner record, or the Organization Profile | The person who receives the document | The words printed on invoices, delivery notes, quotations and statements |
The two are independent, and both are worth setting. Changing your own language does not change what your clients receive. Setting a client’s language does not change what you see.
Numbers and dates
Beelocity writes dates the way Algeria writes them, 25/03/2026, on every screen and in all three
languages. Figures follow your language: 1 234,56 in French, 1.234,56 in Arabic and 1,234.56
in English. All three group the thousands, each in the way that its own readers do. If you want one
style whatever the language, set the number format in Preferences.
Arabic uses the same digits as everyone else, 0 to 9, because an Algerian invoice, price tag and
bank statement are written with them.
What is never translated
Beelocity never translates anything that you typed. Product names, partner names, notes, codes and document numbers are yours. Beelocity shows them exactly as you wrote them, in the language that you wrote them in. A product called Ciment CRS 42,5 stays Ciment CRS 42,5 on an Arabic screen.
You control one addition, and it changes nothing above. It covers the catalog text that your clients read: product names and descriptions, and the labels on options such as sizes and colours. You can write your own versions in the other document languages. Beelocity picks among them where a page for clients asks for a language.
Your staff keep seeing your text exactly as you typed it. If you have not filled in a language, Beelocity falls back to your text. Beelocity never translates anything for you, so you or someone on your team wrote every word that a client reads. See Translating your catalog.