Overriding Currencies and Language Settings for Storefronts
Overview
This article explains how currencies and languages are selected by default for new orders, and provide instructions for overriding the default behavior.
About the Customer’s Country
A customer'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, GST, or other taxes by default
- whether or not a link to enter the purchaser's tax 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
By default, Web Storefronts and Popup Storefronts automatically set the order country based on the geographic location of the customer's IP address.
If you set up a Storefront specifically for use by customers in a specific location, you might want to override the automatic country selection process and set a specific order country to be used by default.
Currencies and Languages Available to Purchasers
FastSpring supports transactions in sixteen different languages and up to twenty-three different currencies.
Should you need to limit the languages or currencies available to customers, you can do so at the individual Storefront level. Currencies can also be limited for the entire Store if desired.
Note
Russian Rubles (RUB) and South African Rand (ZAR) are supported but are disabled for all Stores by default. Enabling either of these currencies makes PayPal unavailable as a payment option in the corresponding countries.
Controlling Currencies and Languages
- 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 Web Storefronts tab or the Popup Storefronts tab.
- 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 appears.
- 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 Web Storefronts tab or the Popup Storefronts tab.
- 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 appears.
- Select the checkbox labeled Override Store Currencies. The window expands to display a series of currency checkboxes.
- Clear the checkbox next to each currency that you do not want the Storefront to support. Each currency that has its checkbox cleared is not available via the selected Storefront.
- The following is an alphabetical list of currency codes and their corresponding currencies.
Code Currency AUD Australian Dollars BRL Brazilian Reais CAD Canadian Dollars CHF Swiss Francs CLP Chilean Pesos CNY Chinese Yuan COP Colombian Pesos CZK Czech Korun DKK Danish Kroner EUR Euros GBP British Pounds HKD Hong Kong Dollars INR Indian Rupees JPY Japanese Yen MXN Mexican Pesos KRW Korean Won NZD New Zealand Dollars PLN Polish Zlotys RUB Russian Rubles SEK Swedish Kronor SGD Singapore Dollars USD United States Dollars ZAR South African Rand
- 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 the Store Settings tab (which is selected by default) and then click Localization on the left-hand side of the page.
- In the Available Currencies field, clear the checkbox next to each currency that you do not want the Store to support. Select the checkbox next to each currency that you do want the Store to support.
- The following is an alphabetical list of currency codes and their corresponding currencies:
Code Currency AUD Australian Dollars BRL Brazilian Reais CAD Canadian Dollars CHF Swiss Francs CLP Chilean Pesos CNY Chinese Yuan COP Colombian Pesos CZK Czech Korun DKK Danish Kroner EUR Euros GBP British Pounds HKD Hong Kong Dollars INR Indian Rupees JPY Japanese Yen MXN Mexican Pesos KRW Korean Won NZD New Zealand Dollars PLN Polish Zlotys RUB Russian Rubles SEK Swedish Kronor SGD Singapore Dollars USD United States Dollars ZAR South African Rand
- Click Save 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 Web Storefronts tab or the Popup Storefronts tab.
- 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 appears.
- Select the Override Store Languages checkbox. The window expands to display the available language checkboxes.
- Clear the checkbox 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.