Actually I’m using Manager accounting software since more than four years , now we have new requirement in Qatar that the invoice should be bilingual ( Arabic – English ) at the same time
And it’s very critical because there is fine if we don’t follow the new rules , I navigate through Manager Form and as I understand there is no solution for bilingual invoice till today
Now its turning point for us either we have to find solution or change the accounting software
Just out of curiosity. I have been searching on Qatar tax laws and the only reference to language is that they must be in Arabic since 2016. I can not find anything that says they must be in English. I ask because some used to invoice in French and they had to ensure they included Arabic, not the other way around. So where can I find these new rules you refer to that it must be English as my contacts then need to use even 3 languages, ie French, English and Arabic. Thank you in advance for sharing so I can alert them about the source.
dear oke
they mention Arabic language and any other foreign beside
Law No. (8) of 2008, especially the following articles: (7), (8), (11), (13) and (17)
These campaigns come within the framework of the Ministry’s keenness to regulate and monitor the markets and commercial activities in the country with the aim of controlling prices and detecting abuses in order to protect the rights of consumers, in implementation of Circular No. (5) of 2016 regarding the Arabization of invoices, lists of services and commodity data, which highlighted the following: Adoption of the Arabic language When presenting the basic data of the goods, and when alerting to the risks that may result from the wrong use of the goods. The data attached to the commodity must be written in Arabic, and a foreign language must be used alongside it.
Go to Settings > Themes and then you can copy the plain theme to a new theme and make the changes from there.
But since I see that it’s already in ideas and the developer hasn’t said anything about it, I guess a checkbox could be introduced to solve this.
I wonder if, instead of (or in addition to) a checkbox, we can have a {{ field.name }} which is always in English and another {{ field.label }} which is translated in the viewing language.
Thank you @Adnan, you confirmed what I guessed, ie there are no new rules that make it compulsory to have English and Arabic on invoices. You confirmed that the 2016 rule that we knew of makes it compulsory that an invoice is in Arabic and voluntary to add another language. So my contacts can use Arabic and French or Arabic and English as long as Arabic is there. I understand your request that you wish to use Arabic and English but that is not compulsory by the Qatar authorities.
@Ealfardan is already advising you with regards to custom themes and he rightly points out that this is in the ideas category hence our discussions and need for clarification. It is up to the developer @Lubos if he decides to take this on but as @Ealfardan mentions this seems to fit more the localizations effort, be it that more than English as second language should be included as I already referred to French.
Only Arabic since 2016 is the legal requirement on invoices. However, many companies in Qatar trade with mainly English and French speaking countries. My point was that it can not be restricted to Arabic and English if implemented because some would only use Arabic and French and could post a similar request. So it is up to you if you make it possible to add more languages to the compulsory Arabic or provide tools so the users can do this themselves as maybe someone needs Arabic and German or Spanish, etc.
In the latest version (22.1.1) there is new checkbox on sales invoices called Bilingual. It shows if you are using Manager in language that is not English.
When checkbox is checked, Manager will append English labels to most foreign language labels.
