Understand Personalization Boundaries and Saved Behavior

Learn which SPRK preferences follow your user profile, how broadly they apply, and what they do not change.

Purpose

Use this article when you want to understand whether a preference affects only your view, the whole app, or company accounting data.

Key Points

  • The Preferences page describes its settings as applying across all companies across the entire app.
  • Theme, UI scale, display formatting, automatic update prompts, and sidebar customization are personalization settings, not accounting transactions.
  • Preferences can change how values and pages are presented without changing source amounts or posted history.
  • The active company still matters for navigation context, but your user preferences are broader than a single company.
  • SPRK keeps certain settings access available even when you customize the sidebar, so required configuration paths remain reachable.

Expected Result

You can distinguish between user-facing personalization and company accounting activity before making changes. Current general ledger impact as of 2026-05-04:

  • Personalization settings do not post to the general ledger.
  • Saved preferences do not move transactions between companies or reopen closed periods.
  • Display-only formatting changes do not rewrite journal entries, invoices, bills, or reconciliations.

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming a formatting preference changed how a transaction was originally posted.
  • Confusing app-wide user preferences with company-specific maintenance settings.
  • Expecting sidebar personalization to override required product guardrails.

Info

  • App sections: preferences
  • Last validated: 2026-05-04
  • Screenshot status: not-started