News for September 2013

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Looking back, it’s interesting to see how the Currency Switcher evolved from a “simple” currency conversion tool to a full multi-currency suite, with features such as Geolocation, multiple pricing, gateway management and more. Reaching such great result wasn’t easy: we faced difficult decisions, dealt with “surprises” caused by incompatibilities with 3rd party solutions and encountered bugs depending on edge cases that seemed to disappear as soon as we tried to troubleshoot it. It wasn’t easy, but we did it, also thanks to the invaluable feedback and suggestions given to us by our Customers. Read more

Currency Switcher for WooCommerce 1.6/2.0 updated to version 1.9.24.130903

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Currency Switcher for WooCommerce 1.6/2.0 has been updated to version 1.9.24.130903. This update brings the following improvements and fixes:

  • Added support for markup to be added to an exchange rate. This feature is useful to add a margin to offset for the cost of currency exchange when accepting payment in foreign currencies.
  • Refactored Settings class to simplify maintenance and increase flexibility.
  • Fixed bug that caused shipping details to be displayed incorrectly in order review page and confirmation email in some server configurations.
  • Updated GeoIP library.

How to get latest version

New customers

Simply place your order and you will get the latest version.

Existing customers

You should be able to download the updated file using the link you received with your order. If the link doesn’t work, please contact Support to receive the latest version. Thanks.

Currency Switcher – WebServiceX is down, please use Open Exchange Rates

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WebServiceX, one of the exchange rates providers supported by the Currency Switcher for WooCommerce, went down today due to a server issue. Attempting to retrieve an exchange rate from it would return an error message, which, hopefully, should be fixed soon (apparently, their server ran out of disk space). This means that, if you configured the Currency Switcher to use WebServiceX to automatic update the exchange rates, it won’t work. Unfortunately, the plugin can’t do anything about the issue, since it depends on an external server, but there are a few steps you can take to get your site back to normal:

  1. Go to the Administration section of your site and open the Currency Switcher Options page.
  2. Switch to Open Exchange Rates as the exchange rates provider. It requires an API key, which can be obtained free of charge using their Free Forever plan.
  3. Click on Save and update exchange rates. This will fetch the exchange rates from the provider and update them automatically.
  4. Update the Currency Switcher plugin to version 1.9.22.130827 or later, which improves the handling of abnormal conditions that may occur while retrieving the exchange rates.

All done! Your site will be now operational again, and you won’t have to worry about downtime of exchange rates provider.

Currency Switcher for WooCommerce 1.6/2.0 updated to version 1.9.22.130827

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Currency Switcher for WooCommerce 1.6/2.0 has been updated to version 1.9.22.130827. This update brings the following improvements and fixes:

  • Improved handling of unexpected conditions when exchange rates cannot be retrieved from a provider. When a provider becomes unavailable (as in the case of WebServiceX outage occurred on 27/08/2013) the existing exchange rates are not affected, rather than being incorrectly overwritten with zero.

How to get latest version

New customers

Simply place your order and you will get the latest version.

Existing customers

You should be able to download the updated file using the link you received with your order. If the link doesn’t work, please contact Support to receive the latest version. Thanks.

Currency Switcher for WooCommerce 1.6/2.0 updated to version 1.9.20.130821

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Currency Switcher for WooCommerce 1.6/2.0 has been updated to version 1.9.20.130821. This update brings the following improvements and fixes:

  • Fixed minor bug that caused the PayPal Pro payment gateway not to be displayed when the Admin area was accessed without using HTTPS protocol.

How to get latest version

New customers

Simply place your order and you will get the latest version.

Existing customers

You should be able to download the updated file using the link you received with your order. If the link doesn’t work, please contact Support to receive the latest version. Thanks.

 

Currency Switcher for WooCommerce 1.6/2.0 updated to version 1.9.19.130820

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Currency Switcher for WooCommerce 1.6/2.0 has been updated to version 1.9.19.130820. This update brings the following improvements and fixes:

  • Fixed issue with formatting of shipping and tax totals when displaying past orders. In some configurations, it could happen that the numeric code of a currency symbol was interpreted as the shipping amount, thus always displaying “36” for US Dollars, no matter what the real amount was. Note: the issue was purely cosmetic, and it just affected the rendering of order pages and order confirmation emails. Despite that, orders were processed normally and the correct amount was charged for shipping and taxes.

How to get latest version

New customers

Simply place your order and you will get the latest version.

Existing customers

You should be able to download the updated file using the link you received with your order. If the link doesn’t work, please contact Support to receive the latest version. Thanks.