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4) Currency Types

Highlights of this feature:

Control the currency types that you want to appear in the dropdown selection for the seller to choose from during the listing placement process. This value represents the currency that the seller is willing to accept from the winning bidder of the listing. If there are no currency types entered into this form there will be no currency type displayed for the seller to choose from.

This feature can also be used to allow the seller to ask clients to "make an offer". Or let the seller declare "OBO" (or best offer). Options are limited to your sellers needs. You will add such "options" within the LISTING SETUP > CURRENCY TYPES admin tool. You would add another option within that tool giving it a "currency name", leave the pre-currency field blank, insert the "Call for price", "Make Offer", "OBO",…etc into the post currency field and set the display order value. This will make it an option for your clients to set. If they leave the price value as "0" and make a selection of "Make Offer" as the post currency value "Make Offer" will appear where ever the price is displayed within the system.

<tip c n>Do not confuse the functionality and intent of this section with that of Currency Designation.</tip>

Where are the Currency Types Admin Tools

Look within the following admin tool:

LISTING SETUP > CURRENCY TYPES

That admin tool looks like the following:

Within that screenshot you'll see:

  1. The currency name as it appears in the admin tool only
  2. the precurrency symbol that appears before the price where ever it is displayed
  3. the postcurrency symbol/text that appears after the price where ever it is displayed
  4. the conversion rate used to convert that currency if the "buyer to seller gateway" feature is used
  5. the currency that is accepted at paypal if the one selected isn't.
  6. the display order value that's used to determine the display order each currency has within the currency type selection on the client side
  7. the delete button to remove that currency
  8. the section at the bottom of the form that allows you to add your own currency choice.

The choice the client makes in this configuration affects the pre and post currency display of price all around the software as shown here:

For additional **price field configurations** look to the following support wiki page

Common Currency Display Problems

If you are having trouble getting currency symbols to display properly on your site insert an html entity, decimal or hex code instead of the symbol directly within the admin tool. We've included a table of common values below but you can always do an Internet search "currency symbols" or "html entities for currency symbols" and you should find something that should work.

Char Dec Hex Entity Name
&#8352; &#x20A0; EURO-CURRENCY SIGN
&#8353; &#x20A1; COLON SIGN
&#8354; &#x20A2; CRUZEIRO SIGN
&#8355; &#x20A3; FRENCH FRANC SIGN
&#8356; &#x20A4; LIRA SIGN
&#8357; &#x20A5; MILL SIGN
&#8358; &#x20A6; NAIRA SIGN
&#8359; &#x20A7; PESETA SIGN
&#8360; &#x20A8; RUPEE SIGN
&#8361; &#x20A9; WON SIGN
&#8362; &#x20AA; NEW SHEQEL SIGN
&#8363; &#x20AB; DONG SIGN
&#8364; &#x20AC; &euro; EURO SIGN
&#8365; &#x20AD; KIP SIGN
&#8366; &#x20AE; TUGRIK SIGN
&#8367; &#x20AF; DRACHMA SIGN
&#8368; &#x20B0; GERMAN PENNY SYMBOL
&#8369; &#x20B1; PESO SIGN
&#8370; &#x20B2; GUARANI SIGN
&#8371; &#x20B3; AUSTRAL SIGN
&#8372; &#x20B4; HRYVNIA SIGN
&#8373; &#x20B5; CEDI SIGN
&#8376; &#x20B8; TENGE SIGN
&#8377; &#x20B9; INDIAN RUPEE SIGN

To provide an example of use all of these would display the euro symbol:

<p>I will display &euro;<p>
<p>I will display &#8364;<p>
<p>I will display &#x20AC;<p>

Like so:

I will display €

I will display €

I will display €

<tip c w>When experimenting with currency symbols and how they display on the client side you will need to place a new listing after each currency symbol change to see that changes effect or edit a current listing and change to the new currency symbol. When a currency symbol for a specific currency choice is changed in the admin tool that will not affect current listings in the software. When a currency symbol is chosen for a listing that choice is saved with the listing data and is not changed because there is a change to that currency in the admin tool.</tip>

Things to Know When Managing This Feature