Bug 20354 - Add ability for patrons to set their preferred currency
Summary: Add ability for patrons to set their preferred currency
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: OPAC (show other bugs)
Version: Main
Hardware: All All
: P5 - low enhancement
Assignee: Bugs List
QA Contact: Testopia
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Depends on: 4078
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Reported: 2018-03-07 16:42 UTC by Josef Moravec
Modified: 2023-10-01 21:46 UTC (History)
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Description Josef Moravec 2018-03-07 16:42:06 UTC 

    


    


      



        
          Comment 1
        

        
          Katrin Fischer

        

        
        

        
          2018-03-08 06:52:43 UTC
        

      






How would a per patron setting work?

Our currency rates can't be kept updated automatically, would this be reliable enough?

    


    


      



        
          Comment 2
        

        
          Josef Moravec

        

        
        

        
          2018-03-08 09:47:31 UTC
        

      






(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #1)
> How would a per patron setting work?
> 
> Our currency rates can't be kept updated automatically, would this be
> reliable enough?

It's just an idea, and should be more disscussed. It should be probably done only in OPAC. But there is always question if there is a use case for this - maybe international libraries? Or if there are any countries with more currencies used?

Automatic rates update could be possible with Finance::Quote->currency

http://search.cpan.org/~ecocode/Finance-Quote-1.47/lib/Finance/Quote.pm

    


    


      



        
          Comment 3
        

        
          Katrin Fischer

        

        
        

        
          2018-03-08 09:55:57 UTC
        

      






Linking bug 3758 :)

    


    


      



        
          Comment 4
        

        
          Josef Moravec

        

        
        

        
          2018-03-08 10:02:38 UTC
        

      






(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #3)
> Linking bug 3758 :)

Thanks, I didn't know it exists ;)

    


    


      



        
          Comment 5
        

        
          Katrin Fischer

        

        
        

        
          2023-10-01 21:46:48 UTC
        

      






I feel like this would be a big change as it would require recalculating all amounts displayed to the user according to their selected currency. This is a big amount of work and would only make sense if the library accepts different currencies. Also different exchange rates might apply.

Should this be WONTFIX?