In this section, we will learn how to add the Canadian dollar (CAD) as a local currency option.
- Let's browse into the System | Localisation | Currencies menu.
- We will insert a new currency. Let's fill the needed fields according to the following screenshot:
- As we can see from the following screenshot, a customer can change the currency to CAD and all prices of products will be automatically converted according to the defined exchange rate:
- We can also set the default local currency for the store in the System | Settings menu, in the Local tab. Let's notice that there is an Auto Update Currency option. If we enable it, all currency exchange rates will be updated to the newest values daily:
Note
OpenCart gets this information from Yahoo Finance website at the backend each day, automatically.
We have just learned how to insert a new currency option. In this specific case, we have added a CAD option and set the exchange rate to auto-update in local store settings.
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