Preferred currency

Every visitor sees prices in one currency, the preferred currency. It is stored per user as the preference user_preferred_currency; a visitor who has not chosen one gets the default:

# settings/override/shop.ini.append.php
[CurrencySettings]
PreferredCurrency=EUR

The default must be a currency of the currency list, and an active one; otherwise prices cannot be shown in it and a warning is written to the debug output.

Letting visitors choose

The view shop/preferredcurrency shows the active currencies with a Set button; it posts to shop/setpreferredcurrency. Both need the policy shop/buy. A link can set it directly:

/shop/setpreferredcurrency/(currency)/NOK

In the administration the same choice is on Store > Preferred currency. Only active currencies are accepted.

Limits

• For anonymous visitors the preference lives in the session, so it is lost when the session ends.