My Default Currency is not working

My Default Currency is not working as I have set the default to GBP it is using USD I have had to change the symbol from $ to pounds and value at 1 to make it work.

I notice it says it Needs a manual update of currency values. But cannot figure out how to do that.

Help will be appreciated thanks.

bscho:

My Default Currency is not working as I have set the default to GBP it is using USD I have had to change the symbol from $ to pounds and value at 1 to make it work.

I notice it says it Needs a manual update of currency values. But cannot figure out how to do that.

Help will be appreciated thanks.
Where is it "using USD?"

Note that if you are viewing the live site and then change the admin setting(s) the store front value will not change from what it was to what it is until a new session is begun or the currency parameter is put on the uri.

As far as modifying the prices, the consideration is this: assume your default currency is selected in the admin and you have gone through all of your product and entered the price of the product as if priced by your default currency. Now, assume you change the currency to one that has a conversion value that is 2 times the current currency. If you do nothing with the prices, then when a new customer loads the site, they will see the new currency and the price of the item will be displayed at 2 times the price entered. But, if the conversion rate for your new default currency is set to 1, then the price will be displayed at the value that was entered, but as compared to the amount of money collected when using the first currency you will get half the amount...

Basically, the idea is that your default currency is entered with a conversion value of 1 so that you can enter all of your prices in that currency. If you use a currency that is not a value of 1 then trying to dial in the correct price in the admin can become difficult.

mc12345678:

Where is it "using USD?"

Note that if you are viewing the live site and then change the admin setting(s) the store front value will not change from what it was to what it is until a new session is begun or the currency parameter is put on the uri.

Prices in the whole fo the site it completely ignore the default option and uses USD if I delete this USD currency leaving all the others with £ as the default all prices on the site are set to zero.

How do I begin a new session? and what is the uri?

In a default install, a session is begun when a browser first goes to the site and has not visited the site within the timeout period of session handling. So if you were to use a different browser than the one(s) previously used to view your site or if you were to clear your cookies/cache for the site then when visiting the site a new session should be begun. Now before that, you should verify that in configuration->My Store that you have switch to default language currency set to false. This will have the store's default currency displayed when a new session is started.Regarding the uri, this is the address entered into the browser. If it is desired to change the displayed currency then adding currency=EUR for example would change to euros. So if the displayed uri were: http://yoursite.com/folder/index.php then it would become: http://yoursite.com/folder/index.php?currency=EUR. If it were: http://yoursite.com/folder/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_4, then it would become: ```
http://yoursite.com/folder/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_4&currency=EUR

mc12345678:

In a default install, a session is begun when a browser first goes to the site and has not visited the site within the timeout period of session handling. So if you were to use a different browser than the one(s) previously used to view your site or if you were to clear your cookies/cache for the site then when visiting the site a new session should be begun. Now before that, you should verify that in configuration->My Store that you have switch to default language currency set to false. This will have the store's default currency displayed when a new session is started

Thanks mine was set to true so changed to false. I see you said uri when you meant url

Will check the http://yoursite.com/folder/index.php?currency=EUR. soon.

Your help is much appreciated as this has been a longstanding problem since I changed to 1.56a

mc12345678:

. If it is desired to change the displayed currency then adding currency=EUR for example would change to euros. So if the displayed uri were: http://yoursite.com/folder/index.php then it would become: http://yoursite.com/folder/index.php?currency=EUR. If it were: http://yoursite.com/folder/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_4, then it would become: ```
http://yoursite.com/folder/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_4¤cy=EUR

I cannot find these index.php?currency anywhere

Thanks

bscho:

I cannot find these index.php?currency anywhere

Thanks
Not sure where you are looking, but the currency sidebox/header options in tools->layout boxes controller will present on the page with a selector to choose the currency to be displayed. Otherwise if one just wants to change the currency to one that is known to be supported on the site, it can be added to the web address in the browser.

mc12345678:

Not sure where you are looking, but the currency sidebox/header options in tools->layout boxes controller will present on the page with a selector to choose the currency to be displayed. Otherwise if one just wants to change the currency to one that is known to be supported on the site, it can be added to the web address in the browser.

Yes I have now found these two out I never new about these. Thanks for this information.

I have changed the dollar from £ to $ and entered value to 1.32.
It now seems to be working correctly with the Default as pounds.
Really pleased this is sorted at last.

I seem to remember there was a way of updating the currency automatically rather than me entering the value manually but cannot find it now.

Am I wrong or does this only get the values on installation?