Multi-currency
The purpose of this section is to introduce and describe the multi-currency feature available in Exponential 3.8. People previously unfamiliar with Exponential webshop subsystem should read the "Webshop" section of the "Concepts and basics" chapter first. The next sections will help you to understand the following issues:
- The concept of custom prices and auto prices
- What the base custom price is
- How to specify your own price rounding criteria for auto prices
- How the currency rates can be used (auto rates and custom rates)
- What the base currency is
- How to manage your currencies
- What the preferred currency is
- How to use additional view templates for multi-price products
- The purpose of the "Products overview" interface
- How to use the default exchange rates update handler
- How to create your own handler for rates updating
- How to convert all your products to multi-price format
In this section
- Custom prices and auto prices Exponential Documentation
- Rounding auto prices Exponential Documentation
- Currency rates Exponential Documentation
- Creating a new currency The administration interface allows you to add new currencies to the webshop system. Let's say that you already have three currencies (USD, UAH and NOK) and you wish to add another one (EUR). The following example demonstrates how to add EUR when you already have USD, UAH, NOK.
- Editing a currency Exponential Documentation
- Removing a currency Exponential Documentation
- Preferred currency Exponential Documentation
- Multi-price products An actual product is represented by a content object (with at least one node assignment) that contains information about the product itself along with a price. The price can be represented by an attribute that makes use of the built-in price or multi-price datatype. These are special datatypes which
- Products overview Exponential Documentation
- Exchange rates update handlers The exchange rates update handlers make it possible to retrieve the latest exchange rates from external sources and thus update the auto rates. You should specify the desired handler in the "ExchangeRatesUpdateHandler" setting described in the next subsection, otherwise the system will not be able t
- Upgrading your webshop Exponential Documentation
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- Svitlana Shatokhina Updated Commenter
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