Any interest in this type of currency mod?
This is a need that I have for my storefront. We are US based and purchase a lot of items from EU and GBP vendors. We need a mod that allows you to enter the price in a certain vendor's currency in the admin and then DISPLAYS in USD based on the exchange rate.
For example.
Widget A is from England and is 5 pounds. We enter 5 pounds as the price in the admin and it displays to the customer(if the rate is 2xs the dollar) as $10... then if the dollar goes weak or strong, the prices automatically update. This would prevent you from having too low or too high a price. Often times we get calls that say... "Hey, why are you so much cheaper than buy straight from the vendor... or Hey... why are you charging so much more than than the vendor..etc..."
I see a lot of stores online where if this is the case, the proprietors say "please call for current price"... this would be a pain as we have a ton of products and have enough orders that we can't be taking calls on every order that comes through.
Does this make sense? I used to have this mod on an old asp based storefront but now that I've moved to xcart, need to build it again.
That all said, I have an in-house php programer. I want to see if there's any interest so that maybe we could share the expense of putting out a mod such as this.
Your thoughts, let me know.
Best,
Blayne Chastain
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