How to change admin currency?

[Serenade]

I only want to receive payments in USD currency, however I am based out of Canada and would like the admin area to show income in CAD. How can I do this? All I can find in the docs is the ability to add different currencies for customers...

[Serenade]

Bump... This cannot possibly be this difficult.

[brian!]

Bump... This cannot possibly be this difficult.

it probably is!

 

I don't think that this can be easily done in an existing setup - if you were starting fresh, you could just make CAD your default currency, have USD as the second option and remove CAD from the cart.

 

however, the admin area uses your default currency, which sounds like it's currently USD in your case - if you have transactions already, that can't be changed (technically can, but shouldn't be).

 

if you have USD and CAD as your two currencies, and you have a cron job updating the exchange rate, you might be able to write an income widget that could calculate your income in CAD on the admin area summary page.

 

if so, you might also be able to use an action hook to display the income amount in CAD (as well or instead of USD) on the client profile summary in the admin area.

 

but there's no simple admin setting that can just change the default currency in the admin area without affecting currencies elsewhere in WHMCS.

[othellotech]

I only want to receive payments in USD currency, however I am based out of Canada and would like the admin area to show income in CAD. How can I do this? All I can find in the docs is the ability to add different currencies for customers...

 

You can stop people 'paying' in one of the currencies you've defined - edit the output ofthe ccy list in teh TPLs to skip any you dont want to accept

 

You cant change WHMCS to show _everything_ converted to your base ccy though

[Serenade]

it probably is!

 

I don't think that this can be easily done in an existing setup - if you were starting fresh, you could just make CAD your default currency, have USD as the second option and remove CAD from the cart.

 

however, the admin area uses your default currency, which sounds like it's currently USD in your case - if you have transactions already, that can't be changed (technically can, but shouldn't be).

 

if you have USD and CAD as your two currencies, and you have a cron job updating the exchange rate, you might be able to write an income widget that could calculate your income in CAD on the admin area summary page.

 

if so, you might also be able to use an action hook to display the income amount in CAD (as well or instead of USD) on the client profile summary in the admin area.

 

but there's no simple admin setting that can just change the default currency in the admin area without affecting currencies elsewhere in WHMCS.

 

For a full featured billing system that's been around for as long as it has, this seems like a pretty major oversight. It would be such an easy feature to implement.

[brian!]

For a full featured billing system that's been around for as long as it has, this seems like a pretty major oversight. It would be such an easy feature to implement.

I can guarantee that won't be the last time you say that about WHMCS!