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Paul L. Newton commented on Manually set prices for currency

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To get it out of the way: It is not possible to have multiple currencies in the manner your proposing on a single store at this time. For large inventories the normal option is having multiple stores , at a discount plan rate , for internationalization and region control. Base currency carries through to checkout and must be so because of the number of payment gateways shopify supports out of the box.


There are 3 separate things here, actual price, displayed price, and converted price.

Actual price: is set in the admin, stores can only have 1 currency in this regard.

Displayed price: it can be anything you want in regard to currency, it can be discounted, marked up, or converted. 

Converted Price: can be just a form of display price.

 

BUT the catch is only Actual price is displayed in checkout

 

Q:So what to do? A: Just set Actual price to regional-price

 This means inventory mgmt overhead is the tradeoff. So per regional-product(or variant) has it's price adjust and is organized by an as yet undefined convention to assign anyone from a certain geo-IP the correct region-priced product line.

 

The complications here are:

  • If product actual-prices need to be set frequently by exchange rates
  • Showing the right products on the client-side
  • Validation when orders are submitted.
  • geo-IP is not 100% reliable.
  • Customer dissonance they must be informed that checkout prices will be displayed in the stores default currency but adjusted to currency-X

Depending on shipping requirements you may also want to make a custom carrier service via the api.


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