Country and currency

The company country in Bulido is a key setting. It drives the VAT rate, time zone, date format, and decimal separator. It also sets the starting default currency and the currency of your Bulido subscription. You change it under Settings → Company Data, in the Country field.

When you can change the country

You can change the country freely until you create your first quote. After that the country is locked: your quotes are tied to the currency and VAT rates of the country they were created in, and changing it would put them out of step. As long as you have any quotes, the Country field is read-only.

If you genuinely need to change your country without deleting your quotes, contact support@bulido.com and we'll help.

Defaults per country

Bulido currently supports two countries with full defaults. Picking either one fills these fields in for you.

Poland:

Default currency: PLN
Default VAT: 23%
Time zone: Europe/Warsaw
Date format: DD.MM.YYYY
Decimal separator: comma
Units: Metric

Germany:

Default currency: EUR
Default VAT: 19%
Time zone: Europe/Berlin
Date format: DD.MM.YYYY
Decimal separator: comma
Units: Metric

If your company is registered in another country, you can still use the app. Pick whichever defaults are closest and adjust individual fields manually.

What changes when you change the country

When you change the country, Bulido automatically overrides several fields with the defaults for the new country:

Default VAT rate
Time zone
Date format
Decimal separator
Units

That's a safeguard. When you change the country, you usually want the whole set of regional settings to match in one go, not field by field.

How the default currency behaves

The default currency lives under Settings → Regional settings and decides how amounts display across the app.

It follows the company country until you set it yourself. As long as you've never changed it, switching the country also switches the currency to the new country's default. Once you pick a currency of your own, Bulido keeps it; a later country change no longer overrides it.

Changing the currency doesn't convert your price list. Your saved service and resource prices keep the same numbers — only the currency symbol shown beside them changes. Bulido asks you to confirm the switch for this reason, so review your price list afterwards. Existing quotes are unaffected: each keeps the currency it was created with.

Individual fields can be overridden

If you want any field different from the default (e.g. setting the VAT rate to 8% in Poland for reduced-rate residential work, or to 7% in Germany), just change the field manually after picking the country. Bulido keeps your choice.

Effect on new quotes

Country and currency changes affect new quotes only. Existing quotes keep the currency and settings they were created with. You can't change a quote's currency after sending; the client would otherwise see a different currency than the one they originally accepted.

Effect on Bulido billing

Your Bulido subscription is always billed in the currency of the company country, never the default currency from Regional settings. So if you set a default currency that differs from your country, the subscription can still be billed in a different currency. If you change the company country, future subscription invoices come out in the new currency.

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