Currency configuration in Shopify

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Currency configuration in Shopify

In this Academy, you will learn how to change the main currency in your Shopify store and, depending on the theme, how to offer your customers a choice of different currencies.

1. Changing the main currency of the store

To change the main currency in your store, you need to activate the conversion factor in the Multichannel Integration Platform (MIP) and configure the new currency in your store.

To do this, follow the steps below:

  1. Go to the MIP and then to the Pricing strategy.
  1. Activate the Conversion factor (1) and enter the exact value of the conversion to the new currency that you want to configure in Shopify (2).

For example, if you want to configure the pound sterling in your store, you need to enter the value “0.87” in the MIP conversion factor (2).

  1. To configure the new currency in the store, create a new publication to save the changes and wait for the publishing process to finish.
  1. Once the publishing has finished, go to your store in Shopify and click on Configuration > Store information> Store currency.

2. Adding other currencies in Shopify

Some themes allow you to configure different currencies in the store and automatically convert the default to the currency selected by the customer.

In this Academy, to show you how to change the currency, we will use our “Prague” theme as an example, as this allows the configuration of currencies from the actual store theme.

  1. To configure the currencies in this theme, go to Online store > Themes > Customise.
  1. Click on Theme configuration and select Language, Currency to add or change the currency available in your store.
  1. Within the Language, Currency selection, you will find different options to configure the currency in your store.

Some of the most important options are:

  • Enable Currency Conversion This option enables or disables the store currency selector.
  • Supported Currencies Allows you to add the ISO codes for the currencies that you want to have in your store. These are always separated by spaces (example: “EUR UDS”).

IMPORTANTE:
● Keep in mind that not all the themes have currency configuration.
● The themes for our 360 stores that allow currency configuration are Prague, California and Shanghai.
● The function may be displayed differently within the themes that offer it.
● There are apps offered by Shopìfy that manage the creation of currencies and exchange rates in the store.
● As these apps are external to BigBuy, you accept responsibility for their use.