If dates in date pickers, calendars or reports show in an unexpected order or in the wrong language, two settings in your Profile control it: Language and Region.
Where to change it (where Preferences is)
In the web app, click your name at the bottom of the left sidebar and choose Profile. Scroll to the Preferences section. If the sidebar is hidden on a narrow window, open the menu at the top of the page first. Under Preferences you'll find:
- Language: the app language. Month and weekday names in calendars and date pickers follow it too.
- Region: a country. Dates and amounts are shown the way they are written in that country. It does not change your account's country or taxes.
- Week starts on: choose Saturday, Sunday or Monday.
Language and Region are per-user, so changing them only affects how SparkReceipt looks to you, not to other people in your account.
In the mobile app, open the menu (the three lines in the top-left corner) and tap Profile. Language is under Preferences, and Region is under Edit profile.
What the format looks like
The order of day, month and year follows the Region you pick, written in your Language. A few examples:
- English with United Kingdom:
04/07/2025, 4 July 2025 - English with United States:
07/04/2025, July 4, 2025 - German with Germany:
04.07.2025 - Finnish with Finland:
04.07.2025 - Japanese with Japan:
2025/07/04
If no Region is set, dates use the default convention of your Language.
Dates in report exports
Your Language and Region also decide how dates are formatted in the Excel and PDF reports you export. They write each document's date in your region's convention, so English with United Kingdom gives 04/07/2025 and English with United States gives 07/04/2025, matching what you see in the app. CSV reports always write dates as YYYY-MM-DD (for example 2025-07-04), whatever your Region, so spreadsheets and accounting tools read them the same way everywhere. If a report comes out with dates in an order you didn't expect, change your Region here and generate the report again.
Tip
If calendars show weekday or month names in a language you don't read, change your Language. If the names are right but day and month are the wrong way round, change your Region.
