Country

The list of countries. It is what every address, nationality and passport field in PeopleNest picks from, and it carries the country's dialling code, its currency and whether an address in it has to name a province.

Where

Organization & Setup › Address › Country

Who uses it

The implementation consultant, rarely. The list arrives filled in.

When

Before the first address is entered

Needs first

Region if you want to group countries

What it is for

PeopleNest arrives with the countries of the world already in it, marked as predefined. In most implementations you never open this screen.

You open it when the client needs something the standard record does not have: a country that is missing, a dialling code that is wrong for the numbers they actually dial, or a currency that needs correcting before expenses are claimed in it.

The State Required tick is the one setting worth checking. With it on, an address in that country cannot be saved without a province, which is what a Pakistani client normally wants. With it off, a one-city country does not force anybody to invent a province.

Every field, in plain words

Field	What it means	What to put in it	Notes
Country	The short code for the country.	PK	Required.
Name	The country's name.	Pakistan
Country Region	The wider region the country sits in.	South Asia	Pick it from the list on Region.
ISO Code	The country's standard international code.	PAK
Calling code	The international dialling code.	92
Currency	The country's currency.	PKR	Pick it from the list.
State Required	An address in this country must name a province.	Ticked for Pakistan
Predefined	The record came with the system.	Fills itself. Leave it.	A predefined country cannot be deleted. The screen refuses and says so.

Name in other languages

Field	What it means	What to put in it	Notes
Line #	The line number.	Fills itself
Language	A language the client uses.	Urdu
Name	The country's name in that language.	The Urdu form of Pakistan	Only needed where documents print in that language.

How to configure it

1. Open Country and look for the countries the client actually uses. They are almost certainly already there.
2. Check Pakistan: Calling code 92, Currency PKR, State Required ticked.
3. Add a record only if a country the client needs is genuinely missing. Enter the code, name, calling code and currency.
4. Save.

Scenarios

A country is missing from the list

Add it. Code, name, calling code and currency are enough. Tick State Required only if its addresses really do need a province.

A country has to be removed

If it is marked Predefined it cannot be deleted, and that is deliberate - other records may point at it. Leave it alone, it does no harm sitting in a list nobody picks from.

What it is connected to

• Region is what the Country Region field picks from.
• State and City hang below the country.
• The address lines on Legal Entity, Employee Address and every other address pick a country from here.

If something looks wrong

• "It will not let me delete a country, it says it is predefined" - that is correct. A country the system shipped with stays.
• "It will not save an address without a province" - the country has State Required ticked. Either name the province or clear the tick for that country.
• "The province list is empty for a country" - no State record names that country yet.