A method of configuring a platform lift, having a drive unit with a communication device and a remote device in communication with the communication device so the remote device provides a user input to the control unit, is disclosed. The method includes uploading a selected country specific setting into the communication device, emitting an introductory signal from the communication device to the remote device, emitting an acknowledgement signal from the remote device back to the communication device, emitting from the communication device a first signal containing information corresponding to the uploaded country specific setting, receiving the emitted first signal at the remote device, configuring the remote device by recognizing the country specific setting in the first signal, selecting at the remote device the same country specific setting, and emitting a confirmation signal from the remote device back to the communication device which conforms to the selected country specific setting.