Adopting the new sign is a decision your business makes, and the module keeps that decision reversible. There is one convention to respect once you have adopted it: the sign goes before the amount, per the Central Bank's guideline. You do not have to remember that, because installing the module applies it — but you should recognise it when amounts change from AED 1,250.00 to a sign followed by the figure rather than a code in front of it.

The mental model: two fields on one record. The module writes to the AED currency record, and to two of its fields: symbol and position. On install it sets the symbol to the new sign and the position to before the number, and it saves the original values once so they can be restored later. That saved pair is the safety net under everything else in this course.

The click path. Go to Settings ▸ Accounting ▸ Odoone UAE Dirham Symbol and use the Use the new UAE Dirham symbol (⃃) toggle. Enable it and save to show the new sign; clear it and save to put the original AED symbol back. The change is not limited to install and uninstall — this is a switch you can operate on any working day.

Repeating the toggle is safe. Turning the sign on and off is idempotent: the original symbol is never overwritten by a repeated toggle. A database switched back and forth for a month still holds the same original values it held the day the module went in, so you can show the new sign to your team on a Tuesday, revert it on a Wednesday and enable it for good next quarter without accumulating any damage.

If the toggle is not there, the feature is not missing. The settings block is gated on the Accounting Advisor/Manager group (account.group_account_manager), the same access that governs other Accounting settings. A user without that access sees no toggle at all, which reads like an absent feature rather than a permission. Ask an administrator to grant the access under Settings ▸ Users & Companies ▸ Users, then reload the page.

Worked example. Marina Ridge Trading LLC enables the toggle on the Sunday it installs the module, and invoices, payments, POS receipts and the website shop all show the new sign before the amount. In the second week an overseas auditor asks for a statement pack in the format they had before. The finance manager clears the toggle, saves, prints the pack, re-enables the toggle and saves again. Two minutes each way, and nothing was uninstalled.

The failure mode. "I enabled it and AED still shows the plain code." Open the setting again and confirm the toggle actually saved. If it is on and the display is still wrong, check whether another module or a manual edit reset the symbol and position fields afterwards — the module writes those fields only when the toggle changes state, so anything that overwrites them later simply stays.