# Workspace settings

> Language, timezone, currency, notifications, message templates — the things you set once.

Source: https://docs.santara.ai/setup/workspace/

**Settings** is one page with tabs. Two of them are about **you** and follow you between
workspaces; the rest belong to the workspace everyone shares.

| Tab | Scope |
| --- | --- |
| **Personal** | You — name, language, timezone |
| **Security** | You — password and account protection |
| **Workspace** | Shared — name, language, timezone, currency |
| **Booking Site** | Shared — [your direct booking site](/setup/booking-site/) |
| **Channels** | Shared — [channel connections](/channels/) |
| **Message Templates** | Shared — saved guest replies |
| **Team** | Shared — [people and roles](/setup/team/) |
| **Billing** | Shared — [plan and invoices](/setup/billing/) |

## Language

Santara's interface is available in **English, Bahasa Indonesia and Tiếng Việt**.

- **Your** language setting changes the interface for you.
- **The workspace's** language decides what language the [daily brief](/daily/) is written in, and
  the default language for anything the workspace generates for a group.

These are separate on purpose: a Vietnamese-speaking manager can work in Vietnamese inside a
workspace whose brief goes out in Indonesian to the cleaning team.

## Timezone

The workspace timezone decides what "today" means — for arrivals, for cleaning, for the brief, and
for every date on every report. Set it to where the properties are, not where you are.

## Currency

The workspace currency is what figures are displayed in. Your [booking site](/setup/booking-site/)
has its own currency setting for what guests see.

## Operations preferences

The workspace tab carries the settings that change how the product behaves for everyone in it:

| Setting | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| **Daily brief time** | When the [brief](/daily/) is generated each day |
| **Daily brief language** | What language it is written in — separate from the interface language |
| **Workspace timezone** | What "today" means, everywhere |
| **Display currency** | The currency figures are shown in |
| **Default message tone** | The register the drafted guest replies start from |
| **Minimum upsell value** | Opportunities below this are not surfaced, so the pipeline stays worth reading |
| **Open Daily Brief first** | Start the app on the brief rather than the dashboard |
| **Notification channel** | Dashboard today; email and SMS are not wired up yet |

There is also the workspace's **name and avatar** — the logo shown in the sidebar and the workspace
switcher, which is what stops two workspaces looking identical at a glance.

## Notifications

The bell in the header. Notifications are addressed by **who can act on them** rather than by name,
which is why a manager added next month immediately receives the ones that were always meant for
their role — nothing has to be re-pointed at them.

There are eight kinds: a booking **created**, **changed** or **cancelled**; a clean **assigned** to
you or **finished**; a ticket **opened**, **assigned** to you or **done**. Everything else the
product knows lives on a screen rather than in the bell, on purpose — a notification list that
reports things you cannot act on stops being read.

:::note[The first sync is quiet on purpose]
Connecting a channel imports your booking history, sometimes a year of it. Those are not new
bookings and you are not notified about them — only about what happens after you connect.
:::

## Message templates

Saved replies with placeholders that fill themselves in from the stay — guest name, check-in time,
wifi password, door code, the amount due. Shared by the workspace, so an answer your team agreed on
is the answer everyone sends.

Writing them, previewing against a real reservation, and the five you start with:
**[Message templates](/setup/message-templates/)**.

## Switching workspaces

The account menu lists every workspace you belong to. Each has its own properties, team, billing
and booking site; nothing is shared between them.