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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: kunal on September 18, 2008, 08:51:22 am

Title: Multi-Currency Support
Post by: kunal on September 18, 2008, 08:51:22 am
I want multi-currency support for my site, where according to users country the currency will be shown. i.e. for U.K client its £ and for US client its $.

does KonaKart support this feature.

Thanks in Advance...
Title: Re: Multi-Currency Support
Post by: ryan on September 18, 2008, 10:32:46 am
Hi,

Will the transaction always be completed in a single currency or will the transaction currency actually change depending on the country ?
Title: Re: Multi-Currency Support
Post by: kunal on September 18, 2008, 11:30:13 am
The transaction currency will be the same through out the site. Just the display for the client will be dependent on his country.
Title: Re: Multi-Currency Support
Post by: ryan on September 18, 2008, 11:33:30 am
At what point do you want to show the real amount that the customer will be paying ? Maybe in the checkout confirmation screen ?
Title: Re: Multi-Currency Support
Post by: kunal on September 18, 2008, 11:47:34 am
It Doesn't matter if the user sees the same currency through out the transaction process. But only while processing the default currency will be taken care of.
Title: Re: Multi-Currency Support
Post by: ryan on September 18, 2008, 12:06:13 pm
Doesn't this mean that your customer will be charged a different amount to what he thinks he'll be paying, since you don't know the conversion rate that the credit card company will use ?
Title: Re: Multi-Currency Support
Post by: kunal on September 18, 2008, 12:22:45 pm
We are going to let the user know that he has to pay the amount according to our Default currency and the exchange rate will be applicable as per there credit card provider.
Title: Re: Multi-Currency Support
Post by: ryan on September 18, 2008, 02:38:27 pm
If that's the case, I'd say that the best place to do the conversion is in the JSP layer since it is just for visualization purposes. For example you could substitute the function we use :

<%=kkEng.formatPrice(prod.getPriceIncTax())%> with your own function that does formatting and conversion.
Title: Re: Multi-Currency Support
Post by: kunal on September 19, 2008, 07:54:08 am
yes i agree but for formatting or conversion does there any support/DB tables in KonaKart??? IF no then can i customize the table structure of KonaKart DB.
Title: Re: Multi-Currency Support
Post by: Brian on September 19, 2008, 08:00:35 am
The currency table has exchange rates which you can use.... and a way to define the currency format.

Title: Re: Multi-Currency Support
Post by: kunal on September 19, 2008, 08:05:13 am
Thanks alot u both... :)