Hi,
Using my Mals Actions (http://www.freewayactions.com/product.php?id=016) you can set the currency id which relates to the five available currency settings you can add in the Mals admin area. The issue you’ll face is that the Mals cart can’t add mixed currency products to the same cart. You can add a product in GBP or USD (for example) but all of the other purchased products until the user checks out (or abandons the cart) have to be in the same currency.
I’ve just checked this in PayPal’s shopping cart and they do the same in that you can only add products in one currency at a time.
I can think of three possible options;
- Have the user choose the correct currency before they enter your online store. This will keep the currencies apart but will duplicate the amount of work required to maintain the two stores.
- Set a cookie on the user’s machine against the currency they have selected and use this to display the correct buy buttons and pricing for the currency. You can do this in PHP to sniff the cookie value and insert the correct includes but it won’t be PHP that Freeway can create for you.
- Leave both the US and UK prices in your Freeway site and let the Mals store throw a warning if the user attempts to mix and match the currencies.
Because you’ll have two different purchase forms for each product you’ll be able to set the shipping to different rates based on which button the buyer uses to make the purchase (USD or GBP).
Regards,
Tim.
On 25 Mar 2011, at 12:48, Mr worm wrote:
I have a shop which currently offers UK prices.
However I would like to add US pricing due to new potential customers.
Im Mals, all my pricing/shipping are currently default to UK British pounds.
On my site I now want to offer both pricing options so as NOT to make one seem more important than the other.
EG: £7.99 inc VAT/ US $12.79
When this is clicked and added to the cart, it currently displays the item as.
All prices in British pounds - ITEM 1 - £7.99 - shipping £1.99
If I had just purchased ITEM1 from the US, my pricing would not only display in UK pounds but my shipping is also still set up to standard UK shipping prices.
Can the standard Mals shop offer the capability to differentiate between both customers, their zones and process their order details respectively in the shop and in the invoices, shipping etc produced from the order.
Hopefully someone has come up against this issue before and can offer some good advice or help? Failing that I do have a plan B.
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