Currency

The Geolocation or profile could be used as a suggested currency but ultimately it will be up to the provider to manually select what currency they want to use or display and it will be up to the site admin which Currency to make available for the providers to use.

1. I did some research and Matukio supports for any provider to use currency to their preference and it's in their documentation. (The site admin has to add all approved currencies from the backend) However they don't have an interface to HikaShop payment gateway.

2. Below is the response from the HikaShop support team on their solution for currency handling in a Multi-Vendor system.

"Vendors can set prices for their products in different currencies. HikaShop will convert the price to the currency that the customer as selected (and what is available via Paypal Adaptive if you're using that plugin). So there is no "Lock" on currency."

Re the map, you can use the Map Theme which shows the map with events, it's usually one or the other. carcam should be able to confirm if we can extend this or not to be based of the logged in user.

This is not possible at the moment but I think it's an interesting feature to add in the mid term. The problema I see is how you determine the user location. Are you using a profile plugin, a custom field for the user or you just want to use geolocation for this?

Each event will be owned by a single vendor and they set their own currency. (A single or specific event in Africa in a particular country will be setup and managed by a single vendor where the vendor will manage or display prices to their preferred (local) currency, likewise a completely different event in Japan managed by another vendor will manage their own event will display prices to their preferred (local) currency.) So this is a Multi-Vendor setup where each vendor will have the flexibility to post or display prices according to their preferred or local currency.

Can I clarify what you are looking for - would these vendors be selling the SAME event in their own currencies or is it that each event would have its own currency and be sold by a single vendor?

That will be great!! Even if the providers are able to display manually a rounded figure to their local currency like the ticket price could show "1000 Yen" and be able to hide the default US price $8.99. That way the conversion can be done at checkout time but the prices reflect to the attendees local currency. Maybe this could be possible implementing using a Custom Field to override the default currency price for "display purpose only" and allow to hide the default set currency price.

Hello,

So for that you can use providers to show the current exchange rate beside the sites default currency? I'm not 100% sure if hikashop have it, but something we could look at for RSVP Pro for Viability.

Re the map, you can use the Map Theme which shows the map with events, it's usually one or the other. carcam should be able to confirm if we can extend this or not to be based of the logged in user.

Many thanks
Tony

By the way forgot to mention. One of the key features I liked about HikaShop is they have unlocked the currency. In a Multi Vendor module where different vendors from different part of the world get to display to their preferred currency. This is the same concept I was thinking it could be handled.

Hi Tony,

My idea is more on how it is displayed. As an example an event manager in Japan would want to display the price to their local currency in Yen. (Even though as a site administrator I may set the default currency in US in the backend). So when the attendees check out I assume they could select however currency they want to pay as paypal will do the conversion. The key is the possibility of displaying the local currency. How about map location distance units. Would event manager in UK be able to select in Kilo Meters or they will have to be forced to display my default settings in Miles?

My thoughts is it is much simpler to display prices to the local area where the event is happening. The attendees do not have to bother to estimate or do the conversions as everything they purchase locally is to their local currency.

Best Regards,
Alex K

Hello,

So you as a site manager can set the currency per RSVP Pro template.

This is the price displayed then the price is passed to Hikashop and then it's up to hikashop how the price is paid wether it be a different currency or not. Asking as the original price/currency is paid.

Many thanks
Tony