change to pound

[angelsRock]

hi.. if i want to add a new currency... which is POUND - what should i put for the value..?

[martinstan]

1.0 I would think?

[angelsRock]

1.0 I would think?

 

huh .. :lol: is that the confirm value? what is the value mean actually?

[DejaVu]

I've installed mine today to use GBP. If you need further help on how to do this please read. I'll walk you through it -

 

First Login to Admin.

Goto Localization > Currencies. Click New Currency

 

Mine is configured -

Title - British Pound

Code - GBP

Symbol Left - £

Symbol Right -

Decimal Point - .

Thousand point - ,

Decimal Places - 2

Value - 1.00000000

 

If you havent already, Tick the box to set Pound as default.

 

Now, you need to edit the others (If you wish to use them) . I got these values from a currency convertor today.

 

US Dollar. Change 'Value' to - 2.05061007

EUR. Change 'Value' to - 1.43238997

 

With Euro, I chose to change the symbol to - €

 

If your not planning on using other currencies (US or Euro), I think you can simply delete them.

 

Hope that helps and explains it in full. :)

[martinstan]

That's exactly right unless I suppose your default currency is say the $, then that would be 1.000 and pound would be 0.48816207.

 

I hope that's right?

[DejaVu]

Yup. :)

[angelsRock]

That's exactly right unless I suppose your default currency is say the $, then that would be 1.000 and pound would be 0.48816207.

 

I hope that's right?

 

which mean if i want to change to pound .. i should put the value to be 0.48816207 ?

[DejaVu]

Nope.

 

Follow my walkthru above and your site will display only GBP correctly. martinstan's spanner in the works there has confused you.

 

It's all to do with exchange rates.

The exchange rate you are using in your country should always be set to 1.000000.

 

The conversion from USD (If you home currency is US) to GBP is 0.48816207.

But GBP (If you home currency is UK) to USD 2.05061007

 

It can admittedly get in depth, but as I said before, do everything in my first post in this thread and everything should run fine. :)