Do you sell your products online internationally? If so, then here’s a good idea: consider providing your web visitors with a currency conversion tool.
Currency conversion software allows your visitors to translate foreign currency transactions into their home currency when purchasing products online. It also allows your customers to view the exact amount their credit card or PayPal account will be charged, expressed in their own home currency.
One great benefit of putting currency conversion on your site is that it allows your customers to see and understand pricing in foreign countries in their own home currency, making it it easier for purchasers to work out their costs and expenses.
Fortunately, if you are a WordPress user, you can add a currency converter to currency conversion to your website using a plugin, allowing your prospective customers to easily perform currency conversions to determine the cost of your products.
WordPress Currency Converting Plugin – Currencyr
Currencyr is a simple yet advanced, intuitive, easy-to-use and complete currency converter plugin with a unique converter tooltip. And, it’s completely free!
Great plugin features include:
- Inline converter
- Supports several exchange rates providers, like Google, Open Exchange Rates & FoxRates
- WP-Cron task scheduler enabled
- Currency table and converter widget
- Supports integration with a number of online shopping plugins such as WooCommerce, WP-eCommerce, Shopp, and Easy Digital Downloads.
- Can detect local currency automatically
- Full translation support
Note: This plugin requires your server to be running PHP 5.3.0 or later. Do not use this plugin if you currently have an older version of PHP installed. Alternatively, ask your web host to update your PHP.
***
You can install the currency conversion plugin from your WordPress dashboard by typing in “currencyr” into the Plugins search field and clicking “Install Now” …
After installing and activating the plugin, you can configure the plugin’s settings by selecting Currencyr from your admin user area …
This takes you to the plugin settings page …
For example, you can choose a base currency from the Base Currency dropdown menu if you want a different currency than the default option ’USD’ …
You can choose which data provider you want to use from the dropdown menu in the ‘Provider’ section. The default selection is ‘Yahoo! Finance’, but you can select another option, such as European Central Bank, FoxRate, Google Finance or Open Exchange Rates …
Note: If you choose Open Exchange Rates as your provider, you will need an API (Application Programming Interface) ID …
You can select how frequently you want to update the exchange rates by selecting an option from the Update Rates dropdown menu …
The plugin uses jQuery, which lets web developers add things like animation effects to web applications (e.g. WordPress plugins).
If you have no reason to change the jQuery settings, leave this option alone …
Configure the remainder of the plugin settings and click ‘Save Changes’ when done …
After your plugin settings have been configured, you can easily start adding currency conversion to your WordPress website’s pages using shortcodes.
Refer to the ‘Additional Plugin Notes’ section below to learn how to use currency codes (e.g. USD, AUD, ZAR, etc …) in the Currencyr plugin.
Currencyr Shortcodes
You can easily add currency conversion to WordPress pages, posts and widgets without having to mess with code using shortcodes.
Let’s take a look at some examples of currency shortcodes that you can add to your WP pages and posts:
Let’s say that you are selling your product for a set price (e.g. $175) in US Dollars (USD), and you would like to display your amount converted into British pounds (GBP) on your sales page.
All you need to do is insert the following shortcode to your post or page …
Note: You can also add pricing in dollars and cents (for example, 16.95, 29.95, 129.10, etc …)
The screenshot below shows how the above shortcode looks when added to a post or page …
After publishing the content, your currency conversion will appear as you can see in the screenshot below …
Using the same example, let’s also convert the same price into multiple currency formats.
To do this, use the shortcode shown below (add as many currency symbols as you want by using vertical pipes) …
The example below shows how the shortcode looks when you add it to a post …
Once your content has been published, your currency conversion will then display like this …
See the ‘Additional Plugin Notes’ section further below to learn more about changing the currency separator symbol within this plugin.
Now, let’s say that you would like to specify a different base currency than the one selected as the default.
For example, say you have specified your default base currency as EUR and you have a section on your website targeted to visitors in countries like Australia or Canada, you can change the base currency using the following shortcode …
You can see how the shortcode looks when added to a page …
After publishing the content, your currency conversion will then appear as you can see below …
Plugin Widget
You can also insert currency conversion into your website or blog’s sidebar using the Currencyr widget.
To add currency conversion to your sidebar area, select Appearance > Widgets in your WordPress user admin menu …
In the Widgets > Available Widgets section find the ‘Currencyr’ widget and drag it to an Active Widgets location …
Configure the widget settings as shown in the screenshot below (add currency codes separated by commas), and click Save to save your settings …
Your currency converter tool will now appear on your site’s sidebar with the settings you have specified …
Additional Plugin Notes
Here are some additional notes and useful information about using the Currencyr plugin.
Currency Separator
The Currencyr plugin lets you specify a symbol of your choice to display as the currency separator when using multiple currencies.
You can change the symbol in the ‘Multiple Separator’ settings field.
So, for example, entering the default symbol “/” (forward slash) …
Displays your currency values separated by the forward slash as you can see in the screenshot below …
If you enter another symbol and update your settings …
Your web site visitors will see the new symbol display as the currency separator …
Integration With WordPress e-Commerce Software
As stated earlier, the plugin integrates with various WP-compatible e-commerce plugins such as WooCommerce, WP-eCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads …
(image sourced from plugin site)
And there you have it! Now you can go and easily add a currency converter to your WordPress site.
To learn more about WordPress e-commerce plugins, see the tutorial below:
***
"I have used the tutorials to teach all of my clients and it has probably never been so easy for everyone to learn WordPress ... Now I don't need to buy all these very expensive video courses that often don't deliver what they promise." - Stefan Wendt, Internet Marketing Success Group