You can add the Currency Switcher addon to your WooCommerce store by following 4 simple steps.
Step – 1. Turn on Currency Switcher Addon
The Currency Switcher addon works as an addon of ProductX. So, you have to turn on the addon. For that:
- Go to the ProductX Plugin Section from your WordPress dashboard.
- Click on the Addons Section
- Turn on the Currency Switcher Addon
Step – 2. Configure Currencies and Exchange Rates
Once you turned on the addon click on the setting section. Now you will see available options to add currencies and exchange rates.
Note: Use the “Gear” icon within the Currency Switcher Settings to access the settings.
First of all the default currency of your WooCommerce store will be added to the list of currencies. And, you will be able to add as many currencies as you want.
To add a new currency click on the add new button and select desired currency by clicking on the dropdown.
After adding a currency, you also have to configure it by filling up the following fields. You can set it as a default currency or change the following settings:
Decimal: Number of Decimal Places
Symbol position: Select the position of the currency symbol.
Rate: Add the conversation rate between the default currency and the newly added currency.
Exchange fee: Add your currency conversation fee if you have any,
After filling up the requirements you can asl hide any payment method you want. That’s all, now can save the settings.
Step- 3. Add Currency Switcher On Shop Page
After doing all required configurations, it’s time to make the currency switching options available for the shoppers. For that, we have made it available on the shop and archive and single product pages. First of all, let’s add to the shop page. How?
Don’t worry ProductX, also has a powerful WooCommerce Builder that helps to create a custom shop page along with the currency switcher. For creating a custom shop page just follow the below stops.
- Go to the WooCommmerce Builder section of ProductX.
- Click on the shop page from all available options.
- Import the premade template or start creating from scratch,
- Add the Currency Switcher Block to your desired positions.
- Customize the block as per your demand and publish the shop page.
Here’s another example where you add the currency switcher to a Single Product Page:
Learn about creating and customizing WooCommerce Shop Page Template.
Step – 4. Add Currency Switcher To Product Pages
If you want to enable the currency-changing options on product pages you have to create a custom template for the single product pages. And while creating the template you just need to add the currency switcher block. So let’s see the process.
- Go to the WooCommmerce Builder section of ProductX.
- Click on the single product from all available options.
- Import the premade template or start creating from scratch,
- Add the Currency Switcher Block to your desired positions.
- Customize the block as per your demand and publish the product page template.
Learn more about creating and customizing WooCommerce Single Product Page Templates.
Here’s a real example of how the currency switcher works. We’ve added it to the Header and see how the change happens (notice how the currency changes from BDT to USD) :
