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Your books in your language: Auditer in 11 Indian languages
Auditer's screens and labels come in 11 languages, from Hindi and Marathi to Tamil and Odia. What is translated, what stays as in Tally, and how to switch.
By Auditer Team · · 4 min read
Auditer’s web portal and mobile apps can show their screens and labels in 11 languages: English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Odia. Each person picks their own language in Settings, and the change applies at once. Amounts, and the names you created in TallyPrime such as ledgers, parties and stock items, stay exactly as they are in Tally. Language support is available to every user from the day they sign up.
Why language matters in the books
Numbers are the same in every language. The words around them are not. Receivables, payables, contra and debit note are everyday words for an accountant, and jargon for many owners and staff.
- Owners read faster in their own language. A textile trader in Surat who runs his business in Gujarati takes in a Gujarati dashboard at a glance, without stopping at each label.
- Staff make fewer mistakes when they understand the screen. A storekeeper in Ludhiana choosing between a stock transfer and a stock adjustment in Punjabi is less likely to pick the wrong one. A sales executive in Madurai can tell a credit note from a debit note in Tamil.
- Family businesses span generations. The founder may prefer Marathi while the next generation works in English. Both look at the same books.
The 11 languages
| Language | Script |
|---|---|
| English | Latin |
| Hindi | Devanagari |
| Marathi | Devanagari |
| Gujarati | Gujarati |
| Punjabi | Gurmukhi |
| Bengali | Bengali |
| Tamil | Tamil |
| Telugu | Telugu |
| Kannada | Kannada |
| Malayalam | Malayalam |
| Odia | Odia |
What is translated, and what stays as in Tally
Translated: the screens and labels of the web portal and the mobile apps, such as menus, buttons, screen titles, dashboard tiles, report headings and settings.
Not translated:
- Names from TallyPrime. Company, ledger, party, stock item and godown names appear exactly as typed in Tally. If a party is “Sri Lakshmi Traders” in Tally, that is what everyone sees, in every language.
- Amounts and codes. Amounts, quantities, voucher numbers, GSTINs and HSN codes are not changed.
- Messages from government portals. An e-invoice or e-way bill error is shown as the portal sends it.
Any label that is not yet translated appears in English, so nothing is left blank. Number and date formats are separate settings, under Language & Formats on the web portal. Choose the Indian number format there to group amounts by lakh and crore, such as ₹12,50,000, whatever language you read in.
How to switch
On the web portal: open Settings, go to Language & Formats and choose a language. The change applies at once.
In the mobile app: tap your avatar on Home to open Settings, go to Language & Region, choose a language and tap Save Changes.
You can also pick a language when you sign up. The choice is personal: changing your language does not change anyone else’s.
A team that works in three languages
A tile dealer in Morbi uses Auditer with three people:
- The owner reads the morning dashboard on his phone in Gujarati: cash, bank, receivables and yesterday’s sales.
- The accountant works on the web portal in English, and handles GST work and reconciliations.
- A sales executive from Rajasthan, who covers dealers in the north, creates orders and receipts in Hindi.
All three see the same ledgers, the same party names and the same amounts. Only the labels around them change. When the owner asks the accountant about a dealer’s balance, both are looking at the same name and the same figure, so the conversation is short.
Starting a new staff member in their language
A short first session makes a real difference:
- Ask which language they read most comfortably, and set it with them on their own phone.
- Walk through the screens they will use every day: for a storekeeper, the Stocks tab and the stock transfer form; for a sales executive, sales, ledgers and the order form.
- Let them create one practice entry as an optional voucher, if their role allows it, so it does not touch the books until the accountant has looked at it.
- Show them My Entries, where they can see whether each entry reached TallyPrime.
- After a week, ask which labels confused them, and tell us if a word reads oddly.
Tips for a multilingual team
- Keep names in TallyPrime clear. Names appear unchanged in every language, so use full trade names rather than short codes only the accountant understands.
- Set each person’s language on day one. Training is quicker when staff learn the screens in the language they will keep using.
- Share screenshots with care. When you send a screenshot to your CA, remember they may use a different language; the amounts and names will match, and the labels will not.
- Keep the owner’s view simple. A dashboard in the owner’s language, checked every morning, often does more than a long monthly report.
Tell us what reads oddly
Accounting words can be translated in more than one way, and the word an accountant in Kolkata uses may not be the one a trader in Siliguri uses. If a label reads oddly in your language, tell us through Ask Auditer or at [email protected], with a screenshot and the word you would use.
How Auditer helps
Auditer shows your TallyPrime books with screens and labels in 11 Indian languages on the web portal and the Android and iOS apps. Each person chooses their own language, while names and amounts stay exactly as in TallyPrime, so everyone works from the same books. Switching takes a few seconds in Settings. See Languages.