What is the difference between My Account and the company settings?

A common mix-up: a user opens My Account looking for the company logo, or opens Settings to change their password. The rule is simple: My Account is yours alone; Settings belongs to the whole company.

My Account — yours alone

Open General Settings → My Account (the page is titled Profile) — image 1. It has only two sections:

• Profile Information — the name shown on screens and in the activity log, and the email you sign in with.
• Update Password — the current password, then the new one twice.

Nothing you change here is visible to anyone else or affects how your colleagues work.

Settings — the company's

Open General Settings → Settings — image 2. It holds what applies to everyone:

• The company name, logo and letterhead details.
• Currency and decimal places.
• Timezone and country.
• Tax and e-invoicing.
• Turning branches on.

A change here shows up immediately for every user and on every invoice and report.

Notes

• My Account is open to every user with no special permission; Settings needs the edit settings permission and may not appear for you at all.
• Changing your email in My Account changes the address you sign in with — make sure it is one you actually receive mail on before saving.
• Forgot your password and cannot sign in? Ask the system administrator to reset it from Users; it cannot be done from My Account.
• To change an employee's details — salary or department — the place is HR, not My Account; a user and an employee are two different records.