Forcing default currency at checkout

[haroldf]

My preference is to show at checkout the currency in which the charge will be transacted. This gives the customer an indication that a conversion to their own currency will take place, hence they will not be too surprised if the charged amount is not in perfect alignment with the checkout's estimated amount. But if that's not an issue, then DrByte's is a good option.

[frank18]

My preference is to show at checkout the currency in which the charge will be transacted. This gives the customer an indication that a conversion to their own currency will take place, hence they will not be too surprised if the charged amount is not in perfect alignment with the checkout's estimated amount. But if that's not an issue, then DrByte's is a good option.

Fixed it without hacking core code (as per DrByte's suggestion).

The shopping cart page(s) still show the chosen currency. Added a few language defines and displayed their relevant content on the checkout_confirmation page. These language defines won't show up if the default currency AUD is selceted - and neither they should show up in this instance as there is nothing to convert.

See screenie:

[frank18]

Posted the code changes in the eWay thread:

https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....57#post1305257

[hairydog]

I'm looking for a similar solution to a slightly different problem. The (ZC155) store wants to price its goods in US dollars, but only display them in GB Pounds - not just at the checkout, but throughout the store.

It works just fine if the customer chooses GBP in the currency drop-down, but I don't want them to have that option: I want that setting to default to GBP even though the underlying store Default Currency is USD. Preferably without showing the currency box at all.

How can I do this? What does that Currency box change when the customer alters it? How can I "pre-alter" it?

[DrByte]

I'm looking for a similar solution to a slightly different problem. The (ZC155) store wants to price its goods in US dollars, but only display them in GB Pounds - not just at the checkout, but throughout the store.

It works just fine if the customer chooses GBP in the currency drop-down, but I don't want them to have that option: I want that setting to default to GBP even though the underlying store Default Currency is USD. Preferably without showing the currency box at all.

How can I do this? What does that Currency box change when the customer alters it? How can I "pre-alter" it?

You simply set the "default currency" (in Localization->Currencies) to be GBP instead of USD.
And then you have to manually set currency-exchange rates (because the auto-updater of exchange rates is based on the default currency).

[hairydog]

You are missing the point, both here and the other place where the thread has been closed so I can't reply there.

If I change the default currency to GBP, all the prices are stored in GBP. That would be no use at all. The client wants to price in dollars, sell in pounds.

I have not been able to get it to work as it should, but I've found a workaround: I have created a new language called UKEnglish, which is simply an exact copy of English. Selecting this as the default store language and then removing the language English has made the system work as I think it is supposed to:

The prices are stored in USD, the currency lookups work automatically on a cron job (though I had to read the php code to find out how to set it up - is there no documentation for this?)

The default language is set to UKEnglish and its default currency is GBP. Customers are now shown prices in GBP.

Clearly there is some hard-coded default somewhere in ZC155 that sets the currency to USD if the language is English, ignoring the settings in the language files. By setting a different language I've bypassed this bug. It would be better to find the bug and fix it, but I don't know how.

The only downside to my workaround is that for any addons I install, I need to rename the English directory before installing. The big advantage is that a future ZC update won't overwrite my Admin english.php settings.

[DrByte]

Clearly there is some hard-coded default somewhere in ZC155 that sets the currency to USD if the language is English, ignoring the settings in the language files. By setting a different language I've bypassed this bug. It would be better to find the bug and fix it, but I don't know how.

Not aware of any such "hard-coded" thing in this regard.

[hairydog]

I'm sure there shouldn't be, but my experience of the bug and the successful workaround suggests that there is!

[lat9]

@hairydog: What's your store's setting for Configuration->My Store->Switch To Default Language Currency?

[hairydog]

True .