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We recommend merchants changing their base currency from USD to fully test it out against your gateway.

  • Your payment gateway must support the base currency if it is not USD.
  • You are responsible for performing complete end to end testing of your e-Commerce store to make sure everything works properly with a non-USD base currency before going live!
  • Some features inside UltraCart may still display a dollar sign even after you change your base currency to a Non-USD setting.

Base Currency Code

The Base Currency Code is the default currency used in the display of your shopping cart.

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  1. AUD
  2. CAD
  3. CHF
  4. EUR
  5. GBP
  6. JPY
  7. MXN
  8. NZD
  9. RUB
  10. SGD
  11. TRY
  12. USD
  13. BRL

Allow Customer Selectable Currency

Selecting the Allow Customer Selectable Currency check box will add to the shopping cart a drop down list that will allow the customer to change the currency to any of the other available currencies.

Enable Item Level Currency

When this checkbox is selected, the item editor will have a drop down box to select the currency to be assigned to the item. The drop down menu field will appear to the right of the cost field.

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titleUsing CurrencyCode on buy links/ buy form code

You can also manually assign a currency code via the "CurrencyCode" parameter.

Example on a buy link URL assigning the Australian dollar "AUD":

http://secure.ultracart.com/cgi-bin/UCEditor?merchantId=DEMO&ADD=BONE&CurrencyCode=AUD

Same example using the buy form code, using a hidden input field:

  <input type="hidden" name="CurrencyCode" value="AUD" />

 

 

Change Cart to Match Currency of First Item

When this checkbox is selected the behavior of the shopping cart will be to use the currency assigned to the first item added to the cart to the rest of the items added to the shopping cart.

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The Multi-Currency feature is new and is considered Beta.

Therefore, we recommend merchants changing from USD setting at this time, do so by fully testing it out against your gateway.

  • Your payment gateway must support the base currency if it is not USD.
  • You are responsible for performing complete end to end testing of your e-Commerce store to make sure everything works properly with a non-USD base currency before going live!
  • Some features inside UltraCart may still display a dollar sign even after you change your base currency to a Non-USD setting.

(The daily currency conversion feed is provided by XE.com)

Impact of Multi Currency on Reporting

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