Currency Converter

Not only is the Currency Converter Plugin convenient for a visitor, but it may also decrease user abandonment since users will be less likely to navigate to an online currency converter elsewhere. If you offer your users to get an accurate price equivalent of a listing in their currency on the go, they will remain on your site longer, thus increasing user retention rates.

Interaction with other Plugins

The Currency Converter Plugin is primarily intended to convert prices in listings showing them in local currencies based on a user IP address. However, that is only one of the ways in which users may benefit from the Plugin. When building the Plugin, we made sure it interacts flawlessly with all of the other price-related plugins. For instance, you may use the Currency Converter with the Shopping Cart or Loan Mortgage calculator plugins and show prices in local currencies. In other words, the Currency Converter Plugin works with all of the Plugins that deal with prices or financial aspects in one way or another.

Back End

Once activated, The Plugin creates a manager in the admin panel where you can:

• Add new currencies;
• Add special codes and symbols for currencies, for instance the euro € for EUR currency;
• Enable/disable currencies by using mac action activate/deactivate;
• Update currency exchange rates at any time and set update regularity;
• Fix most popular currencies at the top of dropdown list and prioritize them in descending order with $, € and £ always first, or whichever order you choose.

As for currency exchange rates, the Plugin updates them automatically at least once a day meaning that users will always get an accurate number. However, if you wish to update the currency exchange rates more often, you may set the update regularity in the admin panel and by configuring Cron accordingly. It should be noted that the Plugin is based on Ajax, meaning that the conversion of prices happens without the need to reload an entire page.

The Currency Converter Plugin is a must-have for classifieds sites targeting international markets and receiving traffic from different countries. Having it on your site will help users avoid the inconvenience of constantly having to convert from the default currency to their local one; the Plugin will automatically do it for them.