richimgd
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Hi there, I am wondering how best to approach a job where I have been asked to build a shop that has products in 4 different currencies (GBP, EURO USD and AUD). The amounts are to be manually entered rather than dynamically calculated. I.e the client would rather the price be £10 and $18 than a script or service working out a random sounding amount such as $17.32 etc.
Thing is I haven't really seen any website out there which you can change the prices by clicking a button. What I imagine is being able to click on a Euro flag and then all the prices are down in Euros, then click on '£' sign and the prices are shown in GBPs etc. I've seen this which kind of looks like what I am after: Here Although its not a real on-line shop. The client also want to be able to add a variable into the URL eg website.com/currency=usd so they can advertise to different markets. The clients view is that people are more likely to buy if they see the products in their currency...
The thing is the actual requirements outside of this currency issue are quite basic. I.e there will only be about 60 products, no special option (i.e different colours or sizes etc) and the products will always be in stock. Also payments will all be handled with PayPal.
I was thinking of using WordPress with the 'GetShopped' plugin, which seemed ideal because I know WordPress really well and the plugin lets the shop owner manually set the values per currency which is exactly what they wanted. The only problem is I am yet to see a working example with the functionally I am after, so I don't want to dive into development just yet.
Not sure if anyone can advise the best approach?
Thing is I haven't really seen any website out there which you can change the prices by clicking a button. What I imagine is being able to click on a Euro flag and then all the prices are down in Euros, then click on '£' sign and the prices are shown in GBPs etc. I've seen this which kind of looks like what I am after: Here Although its not a real on-line shop. The client also want to be able to add a variable into the URL eg website.com/currency=usd so they can advertise to different markets. The clients view is that people are more likely to buy if they see the products in their currency...
The thing is the actual requirements outside of this currency issue are quite basic. I.e there will only be about 60 products, no special option (i.e different colours or sizes etc) and the products will always be in stock. Also payments will all be handled with PayPal.
I was thinking of using WordPress with the 'GetShopped' plugin, which seemed ideal because I know WordPress really well and the plugin lets the shop owner manually set the values per currency which is exactly what they wanted. The only problem is I am yet to see a working example with the functionally I am after, so I don't want to dive into development just yet.
Not sure if anyone can advise the best approach?