Adaptations locales
Une plateforme d’admissions n’est pas internationale parce que son interface est en anglais et ses prix en dollars. Elle l’est quand le bureau de Lahore lit l’ourdou, facture en roupies, encaisse un acompte au comptoir et ne paie jamais d’intérêts de retard — et quand celui de Toronto ne fait rien de tout cela, sur la même installation.
Livré, non figé. Pays, langues et devises sont des listes qu’un espace de travail peut enrichir — et modifier une ligne commune vous en donne votre propre copie plutôt que de changer celle de tous. La section 05 explique pourquoi cela compte davantage que la longueur de la liste.
01 — Votre marché
Huit marchés, aux deux bouts du même parcours étudiant. Sur une installation neuve, chacun est une vraie ligne — ses langues, son indicatif, sa nationalité et la devise dans laquelle il compte — pas un drapeau sur une carte.
Where students go
Institutions, their agent agents and the offer pipeline.
Where students are
Counselling, recruitment and the money that moves locally.
Where students go
Institutions and the agents who send to them work the same application, from opposite sides of it. CAS issuance, conditional offers and the deposit that turns one into the other are steps on the flow rather than a spreadsheet somebody keeps.
Langues parlées ici
The default is what people here speak — it fills in a form. Which language the workspace is run in is a separate setting, and one an office makes for itself.
Comptabilisé en
£ GBP British Pound
Also held here € EUR
Tenue comme une devise à part entière, en unités mineures, le taux en vigueur un jour donné étant conservé avec ce jour-là.
La géographie en dessous
England · London, Manchester
Régions et villes se rattachent à la ligne du pays, et chaque espace de travail ajoute les siennes.
Se faire payer ici
We ship no payment providers and hold no merchant account of yours. You add the rails this office already uses, with your own credentials — these are the shapes they usually take in United Kingdom.
Card gateway
AutomaticWhichever merchant account finance already holds
Bank transfer
ManualFaster Payments, with the reference shown on the invoice
Agency wallet
WalletA agent topping up once a term
Each gateway carries the currencies it is allowed on, so a rail that must never see GBP is not offered for it — and a rail that only works here is not offered anywhere else.
Your address is live the minute the workspace exists — gb-office.admicate.com
Where students go
One institution, many campuses, and a group that wants to read across all of them without any campus losing its own workspace — the shape the whole product is built around.
Langues parlées ici
The default is what people here speak — it fills in a form. Which language the workspace is run in is a separate setting, and one an office makes for itself.
Comptabilisé en
$ USD US Dollar
Tenue comme une devise à part entière, en unités mineures, le taux en vigueur un jour donné étant conservé avec ce jour-là.
La géographie en dessous
California · Los Angeles, San Francisco
Régions et villes se rattachent à la ligne du pays, et chaque espace de travail ajoute les siennes.
Se faire payer ici
We ship no payment providers and hold no merchant account of yours. You add the rails this office already uses, with your own credentials — these are the shapes they usually take in United States.
Card gateway
AutomaticThe processor already on file
Bank transfer
ManualACH, confirmed against the statement
Agency wallet
WalletA recruiter drawing down a prepaid balance
Each gateway carries the currencies it is allowed on, so a rail that must never see USD is not offered for it — and a rail that only works here is not offered anywhere else.
Your address is live the minute the workspace exists — us-office.admicate.com
Where students go
Intakes, not rolling admission: the schedule is a record with dates on it, so an offer made against a closed intake is caught when it is made rather than in the reconciliation two months later.
Langues parlées ici
The default is what people here speak — it fills in a form. Which language the workspace is run in is a separate setting, and one an office makes for itself.
Comptabilisé en
A$ AUD Australian Dollar
Tenue comme une devise à part entière, en unités mineures, le taux en vigueur un jour donné étant conservé avec ce jour-là.
La géographie en dessous
New South Wales · Sydney
Régions et villes se rattachent à la ligne du pays, et chaque espace de travail ajoute les siennes.
Se faire payer ici
We ship no payment providers and hold no merchant account of yours. You add the rails this office already uses, with your own credentials — these are the shapes they usually take in Australia.
Card gateway
AutomaticThe merchant account in use today
Bank transfer
ManualPayID or BSB, reconciled by a person
Agency wallet
WalletAn offshore agent holding a float
Each gateway carries the currencies it is allowed on, so a rail that must never see AUD is not offered for it — and a rail that only works here is not offered anywhere else.
Your address is live the minute the workspace exists — au-office.admicate.com
Where students go
Two languages on one country row. English is the default and French is beside it rather than under a translation project — a Montreal office reads the interface it works in, and a Toronto office is not made to.
Langues parlées ici
The default is what people here speak — it fills in a form. Which language the workspace is run in is a separate setting, and one an office makes for itself.
Comptabilisé en
C$ CAD Canadian Dollar
Also held here $ USD
Tenue comme une devise à part entière, en unités mineures, le taux en vigueur un jour donné étant conservé avec ce jour-là.
La géographie en dessous
Ontario · Toronto
Régions et villes se rattachent à la ligne du pays, et chaque espace de travail ajoute les siennes.
Se faire payer ici
We ship no payment providers and hold no merchant account of yours. You add the rails this office already uses, with your own credentials — these are the shapes they usually take in Canada.
Card gateway
AutomaticThe existing processor
Bank transfer
ManualInterac or wire, matched to the invoice
Agency wallet
WalletA sub-agent network paid from a balance
Each gateway carries the currencies it is allowed on, so a rail that must never see CAD is not offered for it — and a rail that only works here is not offered anywhere else.
Your address is live the minute the workspace exists — ca-office.admicate.com
Where students are
Bengali first with English beside it, taka in the currency table, and a bill that cannot carry interest or a late fee — not as a setting somebody remembered to switch off, but because there is no line kind it could be written on.
Langues parlées ici
The default is what people here speak — it fills in a form. Which language the workspace is run in is a separate setting, and one an office makes for itself.
Comptabilisé en
৳ BDT Bangladeshi Taka
Also held here $ USD
Tenue comme une devise à part entière, en unités mineures, le taux en vigueur un jour donné étant conservé avec ce jour-là.
La géographie en dessous
Dhaka · Dhaka, Gazipur
Régions et villes se rattachent à la ligne du pays, et chaque espace de travail ajoute les siennes.
Se faire payer ici
We ship no payment providers and hold no merchant account of yours. You add the rails this office already uses, with your own credentials — these are the shapes they usually take in Bangladesh.
Mobile wallet
WalletBKash, Nagad or Rocket, topped up and spent down
Local card aggregator
AutomaticThe gateway the office already settles through
Bank transfer
ManualA deposit slip, confirmed against the account
Cash at the counter
CashThe way most student deposits actually arrive
Each gateway carries the currencies it is allowed on, so a rail that must never see BDT is not offered for it — and a rail that only works here is not offered anywhere else.
Your address is live the minute the workspace exists — bd-office.admicate.com
Where students are
Three languages on one country row, one of them right-to-left, and a sub-agent network that can be paid on commission rules the platform computes rather than a monthly argument about percentages.
Langues parlées ici
The default is what people here speak — it fills in a form. Which language the workspace is run in is a separate setting, and one an office makes for itself.
Comptabilisé en
₹ INR Indian Rupee
Also held here $ USD
Tenue comme une devise à part entière, en unités mineures, le taux en vigueur un jour donné étant conservé avec ce jour-là.
La géographie en dessous
Maharashtra · Mumbai
Régions et villes se rattachent à la ligne du pays, et chaque espace de travail ajoute les siennes.
Se faire payer ici
We ship no payment providers and hold no merchant account of yours. You add the rails this office already uses, with your own credentials — these are the shapes they usually take in India.
Instant bank rail
AutomaticUPI, which settles like a card and costs like a transfer
Card gateway
AutomaticThe processor in place
Bank transfer
ManualNEFT or IMPS against a stated reference
Cash at the counter
CashBranch offices collecting in person
Each gateway carries the currencies it is allowed on, so a rail that must never see INR is not offered for it — and a rail that only works here is not offered anywhere else.
Your address is live the minute the workspace exists — in-office.admicate.com
Where students are
Naira is a currency the platform holds, not an amount converted for display. Invoices are raised in it, the rate that was used is stored with the day it applied, and nothing is recomputed later at a rate nobody agreed to.
Langues parlées ici
The default is what people here speak — it fills in a form. Which language the workspace is run in is a separate setting, and one an office makes for itself.
Comptabilisé en
₦ NGN Nigerian Naira
Also held here $ USD
Tenue comme une devise à part entière, en unités mineures, le taux en vigueur un jour donné étant conservé avec ce jour-là.
La géographie en dessous
Lagos · Lagos
Régions et villes se rattachent à la ligne du pays, et chaque espace de travail ajoute les siennes.
Se faire payer ici
We ship no payment providers and hold no merchant account of yours. You add the rails this office already uses, with your own credentials — these are the shapes they usually take in Nigeria.
Card gateway
AutomaticA local processor with a naira merchant account
Bank transfer
ManualNIP, confirmed from the statement
Agency wallet
WalletA agent funding applications in advance
Cash at the counter
CashWalk-in students at a branch
Each gateway carries the currencies it is allowed on, so a rail that must never see NGN is not offered for it — and a rail that only works here is not offered anywhere else.
Your address is live the minute the workspace exists — ng-office.admicate.com
Where students are
Urdu is the default here, and Urdu is written right to left — so the interface mirrors, rather than printing right-to-left text into a layout built the other way and calling it support.
Langues parlées ici
The default is what people here speak — it fills in a form. Which language the workspace is run in is a separate setting, and one an office makes for itself.
Comptabilisé en
₨ PKR Pakistani Rupee
Also held here $ USD
Tenue comme une devise à part entière, en unités mineures, le taux en vigueur un jour donné étant conservé avec ce jour-là.
La géographie en dessous
Punjab · Lahore
Régions et villes se rattachent à la ligne du pays, et chaque espace de travail ajoute les siennes.
Se faire payer ici
We ship no payment providers and hold no merchant account of yours. You add the rails this office already uses, with your own credentials — these are the shapes they usually take in Pakistan.
Mobile wallet
WalletJazzCash or Easypaisa, held as a balance
Bank transfer
ManualRaast or IBFT, reconciled by a person
Card gateway
AutomaticThe aggregator the office settles through
Cash at the counter
CashDeposits taken at the desk
Each gateway carries the currencies it is allowed on, so a rail that must never see PKR is not offered for it — and a rail that only works here is not offered anywhere else.
Your address is live the minute the workspace exists — pk-office.admicate.com
02 — Langues
Chaque espace de travail choisit la sienne. Un groupe avec une antenne à Dacca et une à Manchester ne choisit pas une seule langue pour les deux, et la plateforme non plus : le réglage vit sur l’espace de travail, retombe sur celui de l’installation, et seulement ensuite sur l’anglais.
Codes are BCP 47 rather than two letters, so a market that needs pt-BR or zh-Hant is a row somebody adds, not a column somebody has to widen first.
English
enEnglish
Left to right
Bengali
bnবাংলা
Left to right
Hindi
hiहिन्दी
Left to right
Arabic
arالعربية
Right to left
Urdu
urاردو
Right to left
French
frFrançais
Left to right
A table keyed on "ar, he, fa, ur" is a list that is wrong for somebody: Kurdish is written left to right in Turkey and right to left in Iraq, and Azerbaijani has been written both ways within living memory. So each language row carries its own direction, and the interface mirrors from that.
Not just the text. A right-to-left interface that prints Urdu into a layout built the other way has moved the problem into the reader, which is the failure most "RTL support" actually is.
A British agency recruiting for Saudi institutions works in English about a country whose default is Arabic. Conflating the two would flip an operator's whole interface because of the market they sell into, so the two settings never touch.
03 — Devises
Ici, une devise est une devise que la plateforme tient réellement : les factures y sont émises et le grand livre y est tenu. Afficher le naira converti en dollars au taux du moment n’est pas prendre en charge le naira ; c’est un chiffre qui bouge sans que personne n’ait rien payé.
$ USD
US Dollar
£ GBP
British Pound
€ EUR
Euro
A$ AUD
Australian Dollar
C$ CAD
Canadian Dollar
৳ BDT
Bangladeshi Taka
₹ INR
Indian Rupee
₦ NGN
Nigerian Naira
₨ PKR
Pakistani Rupee
01
Amounts are stored in minor units as whole numbers. Money that has been through a floating-point value is money that eventually fails to add up, and it fails in the reconciliation rather than at the keyboard.
02
Exchange rates are held per pair with the date they came into force, so an invoice keeps the rate that applied when it was raised. Nothing is quietly recomputed at a rate nobody agreed to.
03
A price book carries a currency and the date it applies from. A change is scheduled rather than applied backwards over days that have already been rated and billed.
04
Division floors, and the discarded fraction is never taken as revenue. Where a residual could land in our favour it posts to a charity account instead — the arithmetic is not allowed to be a source of income.
04 — Être payé
Aucun prestataire imposé qui prélève sa part, aucune liste de fournisseurs dans laquelle il faudrait choisir. Une passerelle est une fiche que vous créez : son fournisseur, ses identifiants — chiffrés, et jamais renvoyés à un navigateur une fois enregistrés — ses propres frais, et les devises dans lesquelles elle peut servir.
The provider answers back and the payment settles itself. Cards, and the instant bank rails that behave like them.
Paid from a balance already held on the platform. A mobile-money top-up lands once and is spent against invoices after that.
A transfer made outside the platform, with the reference and the instructions shown, and a person confirming it against the statement.
Handed over at the counter. Receipted like any other payment, because an office that takes cash still has to reconcile.
Every gateway carries the currencies it may run on, one decision per pair — allow or prevent. That is what makes the switch regional: an office billing in taka is offered the taka rails and nothing else, and a card gateway that must never see a local currency cannot be reached from the screen that would use it.
A minimum charge and a percentage sit on the gateway itself, because that cost is the provider's and differs by market. We do not add a platform margin on top of it, and the figure a payer sees is the one their own rail charges.
Successful or not, a gateway attempt lands in its own table with the response that came back. A payment somebody insists they made is a query against a table rather than an argument, and a wallet top-up is spent down against invoices from there.
Le virement manuel et les espèces sont ici des moyens à part entière, pas des solutions de repli. Dans la moitié des marchés de cette page, c’est ainsi que l’argent circule réellement, et une plateforme qui ne conçoit que les passerelles bancaires dit à ces bureaux de tenir leurs vrais comptes ailleurs.
05 — Adapté, pas seulement traduit
01
Countries, languages and currencies are one catalogue everybody reads. Correct a native name or a nationality and you get a fork of that row — yours, in your workspace, for good. Nobody else's list moves, and nothing you fixed is undone by the next platform update.
02
The eight markets are a starting list, not a boundary. A country, a currency, a language or a whole state and city tree can be added by a workspace, and it behaves exactly like the ones that arrived with the install.
03
Usage is measured nightly in the workspace's own timezone, then priced. A day that starts and ends in Dhaka is what a Dhaka office is billed for — not a day that ended at midnight in a datacentre somewhere else.
04
Not a setting that is switched off, and not a regional variation: there is no invoice line type a charge for lateness could be written on, a guard refuses anything that declares itself time-derived, and a test scans the billing code for arithmetic on overdue days.
05
A workspace that cannot pay gets more time or gets the debt forgiven, with the reason recorded. Those are the only two remedies in the system, because a concession with a price attached is not a concession.
06
Bank interest, unclaimed balances and rounding residuals post to a charity account on arrival and leave as sadaqah. There is no method anywhere that can move any of it into revenue, and the yearly zakat statement reads the ledger rather than an intention.
The last three are not a marketing position on ethical finance. They are the reason the billing engine is built the way it is, and Confiance sets out what is enforced by code and what is only a promise.
Dites-nous le pays, la langue et la façon dont vous y êtes payé. Ajouter un marché relève de la configuration chez nous et de rien chez vous — et si la réponse est que quelque chose ne convient vraiment pas encore, vous aurez cette réponse plutôt qu’une feuille de route.