Setup Currency HELP!!!!!

[Guest mrmygind]

Hi

I don't understand the currency setup.

How do you make sure that the currency value is the rigth one at the moment?

How do I setup a new currency with the rigth walue?

[Guest vrakas]

Welcome

If you setup a currency with the value of 1.00000 then the price you enter on a product will be the exact price shown on your site.

There is a mod in the .org forum that can auto update the currency values, give it a try ;)

[jerseyjoe]

Hi

I don't understand the currency setup.

How do you make sure that the currency value is the rigth one at the moment?

How do I setup a new currency with the rigth walue?

I think there are two parts to your question.

1) where and how in CC do you manage the value of any specific currency?

That can be done manually in the CC/ACP (admin control panel).

Click on Currencies.

In the right hand column, under Action, click on "enable" to make any currency active in the user's display and cart.

To edit the value of any currency, again beneath Action, click on "edit."

Scroll to the bottom of the list and you can edit that currency's values.

2) How do you make sure that the exchange rate is valid? First of all, don't sweat the small stuff. Unless you are dealing in transactions that run to the high double figures or any three-digit figures, the normal rate fluctuations are not important and may cause a difference in a large order of a few cents.

Few currency exchange rates change more than a few hundreds of a per cent even over a week. Only major international crises cause serious short term changes in major currencies.

You can confirm the exchange rates for any of hundreds of currencies against almost any other at www.xe.com.

So the practical thing to do is, set your currencies to the rates as of today and then monitor them once a month. Once in a while there will be rate changes that warrant your resetting hte CC/ACP.

Hope that helps.