Currency switcher

Prices travellers understand, charged honestly

An American traveller looking at a trek priced in Nepali rupees, or an Australian looking at euros, has to guess what it costs. Many then leave to do the sum elsewhere. The currency switcher lets visitors choose from up to 10 extra currencies, with your main currency always offered, and can pick a visitor’s currency automatically from their country or browser language until they choose. Their choice is remembered for a year.

The important part is how prices are charged. You set real prices per currency on each tour under Tours › Pricing. A tour priced in euros is charged in euros at that price: no live conversion at checkout, and no surprise when the card statement arrives. What a market pays is your business decision, not the day’s exchange rate.

Approximate prices for tours you haven’t priced

You don’t have to price every tour in every currency. Tours without a price in the visitor’s currency stay in your main currency, clearly labelled “Charged in …”, and can show an approximate price beside it, such as “≈ €92”. Checkout says plainly which currency the traveller will pay in.

Approximate prices use the rates on the Exchange rates page. By default these are the European Central Bank’s daily reference rates, rebased to your main currency, with optional overrides for any currency where you want your own rate. You can also enter all rates by hand. Currencies with an official fixed peg that the ECB doesn’t publish are derived from their anchor, for example the Nepali rupee from the Indian rupee and the Gulf currencies from the US dollar.

Markup, rounding and failed updates

Add a markup to approximate prices if you want them to sit on the safe side of the real conversion, and choose rounding: none, whole amounts, ending in .99, or the nearest 5. A worked example: your main currency is US dollars, a tour costs 100, and the rate is 0.92 euros. With a 2% markup and whole-amount rounding, visitors choosing euros see “≈ €94” beside the dollar price, and pay 100 dollars.

Rates update automatically every day, and the console shows when they last changed. If an update fails, the last good rates stay in use and your team gets one email about it, not one a day.

Setting up Currency switcher

1. 1Switch on the currency switcher. Turn the plugin on and choose up to 10 extra currencies.
2. 2Price your best sellers per currency. On each tour, open Tours › Pricing and add real prices in the currencies you sell most in.
3. 3Decide on approximate prices. Keep them on for tours without a price in the visitor’s currency, or switch them off.
4. 4Choose your rates. Use the automatic daily rates, override individual currencies, or enter your own.
5. 5Set markup and rounding. Choose how approximate prices are rounded and whether a markup applies.