True dual currency
 

I have seen several x-cart sites where there is a choice to view the whole site in one currency or a second currency. Can anybody point me in the right direction for duplicating this. I want the chosen currency to carry right through to checkout as I have a payment method (InternetSecure) that can accept the order in either native currency (US or Canadian). The currencies would be based on the exchange rate set in the admin panel but the order would be processed in the chosen currency, not converted to canadian at checkout by x-cart.

Hi Balinor,
Thanks for the response. This is not quite what I am looking for though. He has just extended the out of the box functionality to include more than one alternate currency. It is a great mod and x-cart should probably include it as standard but what I am looking for is only two currencies. I only want to show one currency price per product but it should be the currency that the user chooses on the home page. Also, the currency needs to carry right through to the payment transaction which this mod does not do.

It seems to me that I need to find a way to somehow create a second primary currency or be able to swith the primary currency with the secondary currency. Any help would be great.

Re: True dual currency
 

Pete,

I'm in the exact same situation as you are, did you find a solution to your issue ?

Re: True dual currency
 

Anybody have any information regarding true dual currency?

My client has US dollar and Canadian dollar account. He would like to charge in either of the currencies.

Please post any help


thank you

Re: True dual currency
 

X-cart doesn't support it, you'll have to get X-Cart development team to custom develop it for you. I got a quote of approx. $200, which included support for two credit-card merchant accounts (one for US$ and the other for CAD$) along with automatic selection of CC payment method depending on the currency preference of the customer.

In my opinion this should be part of X-cart, but I guess this is a feaure rarely used in US, so probably not something that you'd add by default. The custom development cost is quite reasonable, but the development time is in the order of 2.5 months!

Hope this helps.

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I need exactly the same for Canada/US. I believe there are many more Canadian users that would buy such a module. I got a quote from the X-Cart team for over $800.00. I would imagine even in England or other none EU countries, such a module would be worth while and whoever develops such a module would get a quick ROI...

I tried to find the people from Bluewave Multimedia - Web Development Outsourcing.They completed the module for cafe-union in 2004, but I can't find them. The cafe-union website has troubles in the meantime but it worked for a long time. Search this forum for "dual currency" and you'll find the threads.

Looks like this thread is about to end but if there is someone out there that can solve this challenge, help is appreciated, thank you.

Re: True dual currency
 

I am looking for the same thing, has anyone got anything yet?

Re: True dual currency
 

Hi All,

We got a custom one done, based on geo-IP of customer - basically we wanted to appear "local" to customers from every country, such that prices appear in "local" currency for each country.
Note: this is perhaps more complex than many of you need, but you could get something similar custom coded easily (and not too expensive).

Logic our custom mod uses is as follows:-

1) Assumptions
a) a currency is linked to a COUNTRY (i.e. if your IP is from that country then everyone from that country is shown the same prices)
b) payment currencies will be those your payment gateway accepts
c) only 1 real price is kept in X-Cart (i.e. default x-cart price) - all other prices are the exchange rate of that default price e.g. USD prices stored in database, exchange rate price for CAD is shown.
d) exchange rates for payment currencies are updated daily via live feed from our payment gateway - note, this means prices shown (which are not based on the default x-cart price) - are an exchange rate price and thus prices change daily on our website, for all currencies except the default x-cart one (in our case USD), as exchange rates change.

2) Set-up logic / what customers see:-
Note: prices shown to each customer, are as I discussed above based on a person's geo-IP i.e. the country a customer comes from, based on their IP address.
a) Default price - price shown to a customer of X country
b) Payment price - price paid in by a customer of X country
c) If Default currency is set to be the same as Payment currency, then ONLY default currency is ever shown throughout site.
d) If Payment currency is different than Default currency - then on sub-category pages only default currency is shown, but on products pages, cart and checkout pages, both currencies are shown - the assumption is that payment is made in Payment currency (i.e. payment currency is shown as main, and approx. local default currency is shown underneath).
e) At payment choice step, a customer is given the option to select any one of the payment currencies we offer to pay in i.e. they can change to any payment currency we offer, not just the payment currency we set for a country.

Note: Our payment gateway offers multiple currencies (and live feed update of exchange rates daily)... so we only use the one payment gateway, even though we accept multiple currencies.
In X-Cart Admin, we can choose what is the Default and what is the Payment currency for each country e.g. Cyprus - show Cyprian pounds as default, accept Payment in British Pounds or Peru - show Peruvian pessos and accept payment in USD.

The mod was custom "hard" coded into our store (so unfortunately, it can not just be shared as a paid mod) - however if anyone wants the contact for the programmer who did it for us (sure he would be happy to do something similar for you), please feel free to PM me.

Cheers - Asiaplay

PS: I have attached a photo of the Admin side of the mod for your reference...

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Have a look at my site. I use Internet Secure. I had a custom mod created by BCSE to checkout in US and Can currencies. See if that is what you are looking for. It also does Paypal as well, because I still wanted to accept Paypal.

Works perfectly. US dollars go to a US account, and Cdn dollars go to a Cdn account. You can have Internet Secure deposit them in one acount if you like.

The only thing I wish it would do is default to Cdn when the customer country code is Canada, and default to US for all other countries. Probably not too hard, but I reached my budget, so I stopped with what was done. I am sure they could add it for you though.

Rob