Currency designation is used by you to inform your sellers the currency type that the site is set up to accept payments from when listing their items on your site.

<tip c n>NOTE: Do not confuse the functionality and intent of this section with that of currency types form in the LISTING SETUP Menu, which is used to control the currency types that you want to appear in the dropdown selection for the seller to choose from during the listing process. The currency types value represents the currency that the buyer is willing to accept from the winning bidder of the listing.</tip?

<tip c n>NOTE: If you are having trouble getting currency symbols to display properly on your site, you have a couple of options:

- Enter a compatible "charset" that is being used within your site's templates AND edit the "Character Encoding" setting on the SITE SETUP > GENERAL SETTINGS page.

– or –

- Use "html entities" to display the appropriate currency symbol. An Internet search for "html entities" will provide you with an abundance of sites that you can use to find the correct html entity for your currency symbol. </tip>