Baiord never asks you to pick a currency or a time zone at sign-up. Both are read from the eBay marketplace your seller account is registered on, the moment you connect. A UK account reports GBP and London time; a US one reports USD and Pacific time.
Why they are not questions
Because getting either wrong corrupts your books quietly, and the right answer is already known. Your eBay statement is cut in your marketplace's currency and its local midnight. If Baiord guessed differently, every month total would disagree with eBay's by a few orders and you would have no idea why.
Your currency
Money is stored exactly as eBay reports it, in minor units — pence, cents — never as a rounded decimal. Your display currency is set from your first connected account and is then left alone, so adding a second account on another marketplace never relabels orders you already have.
You can change the display currency in Settings → General. One thing to know before you do: amounts are not converted. Changing the label changes the symbol in front of your numbers, not the numbers. Change it only if you have a real reason to report in a different currency.
If orders start arriving in a currency other than your display currency, Baiord raises an alert — Orders in another currency — because totals are summed without conversion and a mixed-currency total is not a number you want to act on.
Your time zone
Every month, every day, every "last 7 days" and every chart bucket in Baiord starts at midnight in your workspace's time zone. Not UTC, not your laptop's zone.
This is the difference between a month that reconciles against eBay and one that is mysteriously out. An order placed at 00:30 on 1 August in Manchester belongs to August. Bucketed in UTC it lands in July, and then August's profit never ties to August's statement.
Changing the time zone
In Settings → General the Time zone list offers:
- Automatic — follows the marketplace of the first account you connected. This is the default and almost always the right answer.
- Or any of the marketplace zones explicitly, plus UTC.
Set it explicitly only if you keep your books somewhere other than where you sell. Changing it re-cuts every window in Baiord, so a month total can move — that is the setting working, not a bug.
Which marketplaces are supported
Baiord maps currencies for every eBay marketplace it has seen, and shows a country name for eighteen of them — the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Singapore, India and Japan. A marketplace outside that list still works: its currency resolves, and it is shown by its eBay marketplace name.