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Currency Converter

Thread began 5/11/2009 11:33 am by rdubill357341 | Last modified 5/12/2009 8:35 am by Ray Borduin | 2364 views | 3 replies |

rdubill357341

Currency Converter

Looking for something that will show our product prices in the correct exchange rate of the viewers country...

Would also be nice if the add to cart function would also update thed cart based on the viewers country...

Anyone???

thanks in advance...

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

How do you want to maintain the exchange rates? What currencies and countries do you want to support? There are quite a few options. Most large multinational companies use a completely separate web site for each region, language, and currency. There are a lot of options for how to do this.

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rdubill357341

Ray - we will have about 6 countries to start....

We want to be able to change the displayed price to the currency of the country that the visitor is located in (ip address???)...

and then use that new price as the price that is added to the cart...

thanks

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

I don't think you can reliably tell where a user is located by ip address. Most web sites have you choose your country. Either way no WebAssist software will help you with this part so my suggestion would be a simple form asking the user which country they are in and storing it as a cookie and session variable for use within the site.

Then I guess you would need a database of curency symbols and exchange rates to properly calculate and display the correct related currency. You could probably store those in the session and as cookies as well.

Then it is just a matter of using the session variable or cookie to display the correct currency symbol and do the math to show the correct converted price. DataAssist from WebAssist would help you manage that database online if that was something you wanted the customer to update currency rates from an administrative interface.

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