Question 1

Accepted PayPal currencies

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Which currencies PayPal accepts, and where the current official list lives.

Question 2

Bulk edit of currency switcher products meta data fields

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Editing fixed per-currency prices across many products at once, using a bulk editor rather than one product at a time.

Question 3

Change Currency by Delivery Country in WooCommerce

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Code that switches the currency when the customer picks a delivery country, so shipping destination and pricing currency stay in step.

Question 4

Currency recounts wrong - double, zero and others ...

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Prices recalculating to zero or double: the isolation procedure that finds whether the theme or another plugin is responsible.

Question 5

Custom Currency Code in WooCommerce: Adding a Non-ISO Currency

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WooCommerce 9.x validates currency codes against the ISO 4217 list, so a custom currency code such as XTR is rejected. How to register your own currency symbol and code so the shop accepts it.

Question 6

Custom currency switcher works well throughout the site but not in the ”quick view”

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Themes with their own quick-view for products can bypass the currency redraw. How to bring quick-view prices back in line.

Question 7

Designer editor not showing design options for button

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The Smart Designer editor opening without design options for a button, and what to do about it.

Question 8

Everything set as Euro's but since installation everything is in dollars

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Everything shows in dollars although the shop is set to euro: which setting was missed after installation.

Question 9

Everytime I go to checkout and then back to homepage the currency switches back to default currency

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The currency resets when returning from checkout: this happens when multi currency checkout is off. Where to switch it on.

Question 10

Example of customizing ddslick drop-down

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CSS example for restyling the ddSlick currency switcher drop-down — width, position and spacing.

Question 11

Fatal error: Call to undefined function filter_var()

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The filter_var fatal error means a PHP extension is missing on the server. The one line your host needs to enable.

Question 12

FOX and WP Rocket: Currency Switcher Not Working With Cache

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What to exclude and what to switch on when the currency switcher stops working after WP Rocket is enabled.

Question 13

Hide trailing zeros on prices

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One line in functions.php that removes trailing zeros from prices, so 10.00 prints as 10.

Question 14

How can I change the image icon (the blue box with i) of the "price info icon"

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CSS for replacing the blue information icon that FOX shows next to a converted price.

Question 15

How remove or hide special WOOCS data in orders

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FOX stores per-currency meta on orders. How to hide or remove it if you no longer need it after uninstalling.

Question 16

How to Adapt WooCommerce Reports for a Multi Currency Shop

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WooCommerce reports have no hooks for currency, so a multi currency shop sums mixed currencies. The approach that makes the numbers mean something again.

Question 17

How to Add a Currency Switcher to the Single Product Page

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Put the currency switcher on the product page itself, so a visitor can change currency at the moment they look at the price.

Question 18

How to Add a Custom Currency Rate Aggregator

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Plug your own exchange rate source into FOX with the woocs_announce_aggregator and woocs_add_aggregator_processor filters. From v.2.3.1 / 1.3.1.

Question 19

How to Add Different Text to Prices in Different Currencies

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Add your own text or a custom currency symbol next to a price, different for each currency — using the woocs_price_html and woocs_price_html_tail filters.

Question 20

How to Add More Countries to a WooCommerce Site

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FOX reads the country list from the WooCommerce WC_Countries class, so adding a country to the shop makes it available to Geo IP rules too.

Question 21

How to add order manually

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The order of steps for creating an order by hand in a currency other than the base one.

Question 22

How to Add the WooCommerce Currency Switcher to a Menu

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A worked example of inserting the currency switcher into a WordPress theme menu, with the code and the caveats.

Question 23

How to Adjust WooCommerce Exchange Rates Manually

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Add a margin to the automatic exchange rate with the "interes" field, or take rates over entirely from your own code.

Question 24

How to Auto-Update WordPress Plugins and Themes Bought on Envato

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Premium plugins from Envato do not update through the WordPress updates screen by default. The three ways to get updates — the author own updater, the Envato Market plugin, or by hand — and what to check before applying one.

Question 25

How to Change the Currency Switcher Drop-Down Skin

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Switch the currency switcher skin on the fly with the woocs_drop_down_view filter, per page or per any other rule.

Question 26

How to Create a Simple Currency Switcher Drop-Down

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The minimal setup for a plain currency switcher drop-down, without skins or custom design.

Question 27

How to Create Currency Links Without a Shortcode

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Build currency switching links directly in header.php or any template, for themes where a shortcode cannot be used.

Question 28

How to Customize the WooCommerce Currency Switcher View

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Smart Designer builds custom currency switcher designs — drop-downs, flags, links and buttons — without writing CSS. Available from v.2.3.5 / 1.3.5.

Question 29

How to Disallow a Currency for a Country in WooCommerce

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Restrict which currencies a country may use, so a visitor from one region never reaches checkout in a currency you do not accept there.

Question 30

How to display on woocommerce checkout page payment gate info

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Show your own message on the checkout page depending on which payment method the customer selected.

Question 31

How to Display Two Currencies on WooCommerce Product Pages

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FOX shows one currency at a time by default. This is how to display two currencies at once on product pages and blocks — a dual currency price line.

Question 32

How to Fix WooCommerce Analytics Reports for Multi-Currency Stores

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Analytics showing wrong totals on a multi currency store: how FOX recalculates order amounts back into the base currency so reports add up.

Question 33

How to Force a Currency on the WooCommerce Checkout Page

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Force a specific currency at checkout by your own business logic, whatever the visitor selected while browsing.

Question 34

How to Get GEO IP Data About a Visitor in WooCommerce

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Read the visitor country, state and city that WooCommerce geolocation resolved, so your own code can act on it alongside the FOX Geo IP rules.

Question 35

How to Hide a Payment Gateway by Currency at Checkout

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Show a payment gateway only for the currencies it can actually settle in, which removes the most common cause of a failed multi currency payment.

Question 36

How to Hide Products for a Specific Currency

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Hide selected products from the catalogue when a particular currency is active, with a snippet for functions.php.

Question 37

How to Insert a Currency Switcher Into the Site Menu

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Build a compact drop-down in Smart Designer and place it in the site menu, where a full-size switcher would not fit.

Question 38

How to make product not purchasable and avoid "Free price" text

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Stop a product being purchasable in a currency it has no price for, and avoid WooCommerce printing "Free" in its place.

Question 39

How to make woocommerce-pdf-invoice works with WOOCS

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The woocommerce-pdf-invoice plugin has no filters for currency. The adaptation that makes invoices print the currency the order was paid in.

Question 40

How to Place the Currency Switcher at the Bottom of the Site

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Create the switcher in Smart Designer, note its ID and hook it into the theme footer with a few lines in functions.php.

Question 41

How to reset page cache in the browser

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How to force a full browser cache reset while testing currency changes, so you are looking at the real result.

Question 42

How to round price to 50 cents

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Code that rounds every converted price up to the nearest 50 cents.

Question 43

How to round price to 99 cents

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Code that makes every converted price end in 99 cents.

Question 44

How to round prices to 0 cents

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Code that rounds converted prices to whole units, with no cents at all.

Question 45

How to round prices to 10 cents

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Code that rounds converted prices to the nearest 10 cents.

Question 46

How to round prices to 500

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Rounding converted prices to the nearest 500 — for currencies where the smallest meaningful unit is large.

Question 47

How to Set a Fixed Price per Currency Programmatically

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Write fixed per-currency prices into product meta from code — the route to use when products arrive through the WooCommerce API or an importer.

Question 48

How to set right options in the Braintree account

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The Braintree account settings needed for accepting payments in more than one currency.

Question 49

How to Switch Currency With Language in WPML

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Bind the currency to the site language, so a visitor switching to German gets euro prices without touching the currency switcher.

Question 50

How to to display the text “Call for Price” when the price is 0 or blank

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Print "Call for Price" instead of a zero or an empty price, in every currency.

Question 51

How to Use Memcached or Redis as Currency Storage

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Move the selected currency out of the session and into Memcached or Redis, which is what large or heavily cached shops need. From v.2.3.4 / 1.3.4.

Question 52

How to Use the FOX Currency Switcher API

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The shortcodes, filters and $WOOCS methods available for extending currency behaviour, with where to start for a given task.

Question 53

I cant add flags! What to do?

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Flags not appearing in the currency switcher: the usual cause and the fix.

Question 54

I just bought the plugin and cant install it. Error!!

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An install error usually means the full CodeCanyon bundle was uploaded instead of the plugin zip inside it.

Question 55

PayPal Currency Codes

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The PayPal currency code reference, for matching your FOX currency list to what PayPal will process.

Question 56

Price was converted twice on checkout page

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A price converted twice at checkout means something else is converting it too. How to find what.

Question 57

Single page price troubles

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The correct way to output a converted price in a custom single-product.php template.

Question 58

Special shortcode to show current country only

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There is no built-in shortcode that prints only the visitor country, but a few lines of code make one. The snippet is here.

Question 59

Switch Currency by Billing Address Instead of Geolocation

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When geolocation charges customers in the wrong currency, this guide switches the rule to the billing address the customer actually entered.

Question 60

Using the REST API With the WooCommerce Currency Switcher

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Read currencies and converted product prices over REST, for headless front ends and external integrations. From v.2.2.9 / 1.2.9.

Question 61

Validation error: PayPal amounts do not match

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PayPal rejects an order when the recalculated amount differs in the fourth decimal. Where the rounding comes from and how to remove it.

Question 62

When I save the plugins settings I get error 403

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A 403 when saving plugin settings is a server rule, not a plugin bug. Where it comes from and what to ask the host.

Question 63

Where to Find the Currency an Order Was Paid In

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Which database field holds the currency of a completed order, and how to read it for reporting or accounting.

Question 64

Where to Get Free Flag Icons for a Currency Switcher

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Sources of free flag icons for the currency switcher, and the sizing hint that saves you re-cutting them all.

FAQ

Shortcodes, functions, actions and filters reference for FOX WooCommerce Currency Switcher