Like many of the other options in Odoo that we have discussed, business requirements should drive how you configure your system. For our real-world example, we want to be able to offer a native Spanish Odoo interface for some employees. Let's see how we can configure Odoo to provide other language alternatives.

Fortunately, Odoo makes this very easy. Simply go to the Settings menu and choose Load a Translation in the Translations section, as shown in the following screenshot:

You will find quite a few languages to choose from in this list. At the time of writing, there are more than 80 languages to choose from.

You would use Overwrite Existing Terms if you have made custom modifications to a language translation and now wish to overwrite them.

After the language is loaded, you will get a confirmation message and instructions on how to begin using the installed language, shown as follows:

Now that we have installed the new language, we can assign that language to our users, customers, and even our suppliers. In the following screenshot, we can see that we have set language choice of Mike Zeigler to Spanish. Odoo also allows you to specify the time zone by either the GMT offset or by common regions. In this case, we have chosen Cancun as the Timezone:

After the changes have been saved and the user has logged back in, we will see that their interface has changed to Spanish: