WooCommerce Currency Switcher – Maintenance update, September 2019

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WooCommerce Currency Switcher – What’s new

Currency Switcher for WooCommerce has been updated to version 4.7.11.190924. This update brings the following improvements and fixes:

  • Improvement – Improved error checking during conversion of product prices, to detect and avoid invalid products.
  • Improved script to intercept the currency selection to handle widgets created dynamically, via JavaScript.
  • Fixed condition that could cause regular prices to be overwritten during the scheduled processing of sale prices with WooCommerce 3.7.x.
  • Updated supported WooCommerce versions.

How to get latest version

New customers

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

Existing customers

If you activated your licence in WooCommerce > Setttings > Aelia, you will see a notification informing you about the update. You will then be able to install it automatically.

If you haven’t activated your licence, you can 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.

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Smart Offers now supports our Aelia Currency Switcher

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Increase your conversions with Smart Offers and Aelia Currency Switcher

We are happy to announce the start of a new collaboration, this time with the StoreApps Team. This collaboration brings you another great solution, the Smart Offers plugin. Smart Offers makes it easy to manage up-sells, cross-sells and “buy one, get one free offers”, and now it also includes native support for our popular multi-currency solution, the Aelia Currency Switcher.

Thanks to this new integration, visitors will see up-sells, cross-sells and special offers in their currency of choice. This will improve the user experience, and can help increasing conversions.

Getting started

The Smart Offers plugin integration with the Currency Switcher works out of the box. When you install the two plugins together, Smart Offers will automatically take care of showing your special offers in the correct currency. No configuration is required, it just works!

Advantages of using Smart Offers with Aelia Currency Switcher

Targeting rules, filters and more

Smart Offers includes features like targeting of offers based on user role, past purchases or cart value. All such features integrate automatically with the functions offered by the Aelia Currency Switcher, such as automatic geolocation and price conversions. All special offers will be appear consistently with customer’s location and selected currency.

Revenue reports in the selected currency

Smart Offers will automatically show you, in its Orders dashboard, the revenue earned from running the offer in each of the currencies selected by your visitors. This will help preparing statistics on which offers are more successful, and in which currency. With that information, you will be able to prepare accurately targeted offers and increase your conversion.

Conclusion

Using the Aelia Currency Switcher and the Smart Offers plugin together can greatly help increasing the effectiveness of your up-sells and cross-sells offers. The two plugin together will enable you to prepare offers targeted to specific markets, and attract more sales.

If you are using the two solutions together, we will be happy to hear your feedback, so that we can continue improving our products. Should you have any questions about using Smart Offers with our Currency Switcher, please feel free to contact the StoreApps support team. They will be ready to assist you with the installation of their powerful “special offers” solution.

That’s all, for now. I hope you enjoyed this great news, and we wish you a fantastic weekend!

The Aelia Team

WooCommerce Currency Switcher – WC 3.6.5 update, July 2019

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WooCommerce Currency Switcher – What’s new

Currency Switcher for WooCommerce has been updated to version 4.7.8.190709. This update brings the following improvements and fixes:

  • Bug fix – Fixed condition that caused order items to disappear during the creation of a manual order. The glitch was introduced due to a bug in version 4.7.7.190706, released on the 8th of July, and fixed the day after.
  • Bug fix – Added workaround for a bug which caused product prices being overwritten by the “update product stock” function after being added to an order in the backend.
  • Improvement – Increased number of decimals used to calculate orders’ and items’ totals in base currency. This will increase the accuracy of the sales report.
  • Improvement – Improved shortcode aelia_cs_product_price. Added support for sign up fees (subscriptions). It’s now possible to call the shortcode by passing an argument such as price_type=”sign_up_fee”, to show the sign up fee for subscriptions. For more information, please refer to our knowledge base: WooCommerce Currency Switcher – Shortcodes.
  • Improvement – Added new filter aelia_cs_pp_shortcode_converted_amount, to allow 3rd parties to alter the output of shortcode “aelia_cs_currency_amount“.
  • Improvement – Improved frontend user interface. Added check to show errors on the currency selector widget only to shop managers
  • Improvement – Improved backend interface. Removed obsolete messages from Admin area.

How to get latest version

New customers

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

Existing customers

If you activated your licence in WooCommerce > Setttings > Aelia, you will see a notification informing you about the update. You will then be able to install it automatically.

If you haven’t activated your licence, you can 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.

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The StorePep Shipping Solution now supports our Aelia Currency Switcher

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Using StorePep with Aelia Currency Switcher

We have partnered with the StorePep Team, to bring you yet one more great solution for your WooCommerce shop. The StorePep Shipping solution now includes native support for our WooCommerce Currency Switcher. With this solution, you can now ship globally using popular shipping carriers like FedEx, UPS, DHL and more. StorePep will charge the correct fees, in the currency used by your customers to complete the checkout.

Getting started

StorePep, along with Aelia Currency Switcher delivers a seamless shopping experience for your customers. You can combine configure StorePep by simply following these easy steps:

  1. Install and configure the Aelia Currency Switcher. Our installation guide can help you configuring the plugin: Aelia Currency Switcher – Getting Started.
  2. Install and configure StorePep, by following a few, simple steps: Integrate Your WooCommerce Online Store with StorePep.
  3. Verify that StorePep is working, by checking that the correct shipping rates appear at checkout.

You’re ready to go! StorePep will now calculate shipping costs, and the the Aelia Currency Switcher will convert them to the active currency.

Should you have any questions about using StorePep with our Currency Switcher, please contact the StorePep Support Team. They will be happy to help you configuring their shipping solution.

Thanks for reading, and have a great day!

The Aelia Team

WooCommerce Currency Switcher – New bulk edit features

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WooCommerce Currency Switcher – What’s new

Currency Switcher for WooCommerce has been updated to version 4.7.0.190307. This update introduces a new bulk edit feature, which allows to set the price in specific currencies for multiple products at the same time.

This new feature can be accessed from the Products List page, as follows:

  1. Select one or more products.
  2. At the top of the page, select “Edit” from the Action dropdown.
  3. Click on Apply. This will open the bulk edit interface, which now includes two additional fields to set product prices in specific currencies.

Preview

Below you can find an example of what the new interface looks like:

How to get latest version

New customers

Simply place your order and you will get the latest version, which will include all the new featues.

Existing customers

If you activated your licence in WooCommerce > Setttings > Aelia, you will see a notification informing you about the update. You will then be able to install it automatically.

If you haven’t activated your licence, you can 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.

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Fancy winning a $5,000 worth of WooCommerce goodies?

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Our friends at CommerceGurus started a giveaway, which could allow you to get up to $5000 (yes, five thousand) worth of WooCommerce plugins and services. Among the prizes, you will find:

  • Free hosting, by DigitalOcean
  • Weglot multi-lingual
  • MemberPress Plus
  • WPForms
  • Jilt – email marketing for WooCommerce
  • Metorik WooCommerce analytics
  • Elementor Powerpack
  • All in One SEO Pack
  • WooCommerce Product Tables plugin

And more. At Aelia, we decided to contribute to the pot, by adding added a free licence for our Aelia Currency Switcher to it. Now you have the chance to get the whole package, for free!

How to enter the giveaway

Entering is easy. Simply visit the competition page at https://www.commercegurus.com/ecommerce-giveaway/ and subscribe to the CommerceGurus newsletter. You will be automatically entered into the draw, and you will be notified if you are a winner. Can’t be any easier!

From the Aelia Team, best of luck to all participants!

The Aelia Team