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by flower-giraffe 1919 days ago
It’s great to see you are here and listening to feedback.

While we have you ear can I repeat a long-standing request.

Set price multi currency support.

We built an Ecommerce site for a leading global brand with thousands of SKUs.

The lack of a method to set a fixed price for multiple currencies on a single product in a store has created significant complexity for us.

We have to create a store with around a thousand SKU’s for each local currency just to set the price.

The software and process gymnastics required to synchronise product information, images, inventory data, fulfillments and tracking could be avoided with local currency pricing.

Having multiple stores makes it mostly impossible to make use of third party apps that would otherwise enable the client to do more with shopify.

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We have this same problem. I am trying to work out at the moment if this is solved by using Shopify +

We manage it by our product data being in our ERP, and use Shopify as a dumb front end. The marketing people still hate it though.

> if this is solved by using Shopify +

It isn’t, plus makes it marginally less painful, single login etc. It doesn’t add anything for multi currency.

We did raise this with the plus onboarding guys and they confirmed it was not possible.

> We manage it by our product data being in our ERP

Same here, in fact we go one further and built a headless store in front, along with a proxy for inventory because the stock API is so slow.

The original goal was to use pure Shopify. The end result is more like a glorified shopping cart and and fulfillment backend.

If we did it again I think we’d be better off building on a payment provider like Stripe.