Buyer Admins can set the default date format for their company and individual users (buyers and suppliers) can set personal date format preferences, including international date formatting.
This update improves clarity when viewing POs, shipping dates, promises, and notifications, ensuring each user sees dates in the format they prefer.
➡️ Suppliers are responsible for adjusting their date format. Learn more.
Company-level date format (Admins only)
Company-level settings define the default date format for all buyer users within your organization.
Who can edit this: Buyer Admins
Where to set it: Account Settings → Company → Date Format
What the company setting controls
Default date format for all buyer users
Used as a fallback when no buyer-level preference is set
Assists with standardization across teams
Fallback behavior
When determining which date format to apply, SourceDay uses this order:
Buyer’s user-level preference (if set)
Buyer company default format (Admin setting)
SourceDay global default (if no company setting exists)
Buyer Admin: Set company-level default format
1. Go to Account Settings & select Company from the left-side navigation
2. Set the company default date format
Use the Date Format dropdown to define the default for your buyer organization.
4. Save
Click Save. This will apply to all buyers who have not set a personal preference.
⚠️ Important: This adjusts the default date setting for your company's buyer users only. Suppliers will have to adjust their settings as well. Learn more about supplier date formatting.
Buyer-level personal date format
Buyers can now set their own date format preference - independent of the company default.
Who can edit this: Any buyer
Where to set it: Account Settings → Account Preferences → Date Format
What the buyer preference controls
Your personal date format determines how dates appear to you, including:
All dates across SourceDay (PO tables, dashboards, reports)
Templates and exports (including PO PDFs)
Email notifications
Why set a personal date format?
Teams working across regions can choose formats familiar to them
Reduces confusion caused by mixed US/EU formatting
Ensures accuracy when updating POs or reviewing timelines
Example scenarios
Scenario 1: Company uses MM/DD/YYYY, but you prefer DD/MM/YYYY
→ Set your personal format; all dates update for your view only.
Scenario 2: No personal setting
→ You inherit the company-level setting.
Scenario 3: Company has no default set
→ SourceDay will use MM/DD/YYYY default unless you choose a format.
Buyer: Set personal date format
1. Open Account Settings and select Account Preferences from the left-side navigation menu.
2. Choose your date format and save.
Under Date Format, open the dropdown to select your preferred format.
Supplier: Date format
Suppliers are responsible for adjusting their date format. By default the date format for suppliers is: MM/DD/YYYY. Learn more about supplier date formatting.