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Last Post 1/28/2010 9:00:03 AM By lukezy. 3 replies.
3/3/2009 9:23:27 AM
Bahram
Posts: 878
Joined: 12/8/2008
Location:Vancouver, BC Canada
Multi-Currency and Name Of the Currency
 Hi,
 
There is no Name and Sysmbol setting for Currency. e.g How can we denote $XXXXX are all US Dollars. yes We can do by  some comments on web pages.
There is a need for a Currency Table consisting of Symbol and Name and Exchange rate base on one of the rows as Reference :
 
Symbol              Country            Name                                Abbreviation                 Rate          Status  
$                         USA                   US Dollar                         USD                               1.00           Active
$                         Canada            Canadian Dollar            CAD                                1.22           Active
€                          Europe             Euro Dollar                     Euro                                0.80          Active
$                          Australia          Australian Dollar                                                                       Inactive
 
 
The application have alwasys one Active Currency. Based on the marketing areas of the business they (DSC licensee)  can let their user select the currency they support,
For example we have customers in US, Canada and Europe.
 
When User selects a currency, all prices are showed ( not saved ) by multiplying the exchange rate Factor thru all the shopping cart process.
 
We (Licencee) are  responsible for updating the exchange rates regularly just like price lists and other stock items.
 
Bahram
 
 
3/3/2009 11:10:01 PM
lukezy
Posts: 2109
Joined: 6/12/2007
Location:WA, US
Re: Multi-Currency and Name Of the Currency
There is a culture setting in Admin -> Site -> Language. This culture setting is going to affect Currency, Language, Date format etc.
 
To achieve what you describe here is to create sub site for each Country. By doing this you essentially create multiple databases for these countries. To get away with the duplicate work, you need to create automation tool to keep the prices in different databases in sync.
 
DotShoppingCart Staff
1/28/2010 7:59:34 AM
seldi
Posts: 8
Joined: 12/2/2009
Re: Multi-Currency and Name Of the Currency
Hi,
 
I want to make more than a currency available in my site. 
I see the way that is described here but this way seems to work only for displayed currency not to make payments in different currencies.
I need to make payment in different currencies.
Please any solution for that?
 
Seldi
 
1/28/2010 9:00:03 AM
lukezy
Posts: 2109
Joined: 6/12/2007
Location:WA, US
Re: Multi-Currency and Name Of the Currency
One simple way is to create another instance for the different currentcies. If you wish to use single instance for both currencies you can customize the software.
DotShoppingCart Staff