Overriding Currencies and Language Settings for Storefronts
Overview
This article provide information on Overriding Currencies and Language Settings for Storefronts.
Overview
This article provide information on Overriding Currencies and Language Settings for Storefronts
About the Purchaser's Country
A purchaser's selected country can have a variety of impacts on the purchase process. For example, the selected country can affect:
- the currency selected by default (and thus the prices shown)
- whether or not the prices include VAT by default
- whether or not a link to enter the purchaser's VAT ID is displayed
- the payment methods available to the purchaser (e.g. customers in Germany have several payment methods not available to customers in the United States)
However, the country selected does not control or determine the selected language.
Tip
If you set up a Storefront that is intended for purchasers in a certain location, you might want to override the automatic country selection process and set a specific purchaser country to be used by default.
Currencies and Languages Available to Purchasers
FastSpring supports transactions in fourteen different languages and up to nineteen different currencies.
Should you need to limit the languages or currencies available to purchasers, you can do so at the individual Storefront level. Currencies can also be limited for the entire Store if desired. You can also configure a Storefront to use a specific country by default rather than automatically selecting the country based on the geographic location of the customer's IP address.
Note
- To override geo IP country selection by setting a specific default country
- To limit the currencies available for a Storefront
- To limit the currencies available for an entire Store
- To limit the languages available for a Storefront
To override geo IP country selection by setting a specific default country
- From the Storefronts menu, select the tab for the type of Storefront for which you want to set a specific default country (e.g. Web Storefronts or Popup Storefronts).
- Click the MORE menu for the Storefront whose default country you want to specify, and then click Languages and Currencies. The Languages and Currencies popup window will appear.
- In the Default Country field, enter the two-digit ISO country code of the specific country that you want the Storefront to use by default. For example, for Germany you would enter DE.
- Click SAVE to save your change. Please allow up to ten minutes for Live Storefronts to be updated.
To limit the currencies available for a Storefront
- From the Storefronts menu, select the tab for the type of Storefront whose currencies you want to limit (e.g. Web Storefronts or Popup Storefronts).
- Click the MORE menu for the Storefront whose currencies you want to limit, and then click Languages and Currencies. The Languages and Currencies popup window will appear.
- Select the check box labeled Override Store Currencies. The window will expand to display a series of currency check boxes.
-
Clear the check box next to each currency that you do not want the Storefront to support. Each currency that has its check box cleared will not be available via the selected Storefront.
Click here for an alphabetical list of currency codes and their corresponding currencies
- Click SAVE to save your changes. Please allow up to ten minutes for Live Storefronts to be updated.
To limit the currencies available for an entire Store
- From the Settings menu, click Store Settings in the sub-menu (selected by default), and then click Localization on the left-hand side of the page.
-
In the Available Currencies field, clear the check box next to each currency that you do not want the Store to support. Select the check box next to each currency that you do want the Store to support.
Click here for an alphabetical list of currency codes and their corresponding currencies
- Click
at the top right-hand side of the page. Please allow up to ten minutes for Live Storefronts to be updated.
To limit the languages available for a Storefront
-
- From the Storefronts menu, select the tab for the type of Storefront whose currencies you want to limit (e.g. Web Storefronts or Popup Storefronts).
- Click the MORE menu for the Storefront whose currencies you want to limit, and then click Languages and Currencies. The Languages and Currencies popup window will appear.
- Select the check box labeled Override Store Languages. The window will expand to display the available language check boxes.
- Clear the check box next to any language that you do not want the Storefront to support.
- Click SAVE to save your changes. Please allow up to ten minutes for Live Storefronts to be updated.
- From the Storefronts menu, select the tab for the type of Storefront whose currencies you want to limit (e.g. Web Storefronts or Popup Storefronts).