Force currency based on country ?

Hello,

I'm looking to build a shop with Hikashop, perhaps the business version. I looked into the geolocation plugin and it looks interesting. Basically, I need:

1- Specific prices by currency
2- Force the currency based on users location. This could be done with either the geolocation plugin from what I can see but a simple Country selection box would suffice - In that case, I guess I would have to create my own module?

So my question is, in either case, will I be able to force the country upon checkout to the one determined in 2 above? And not give the user the possibility to change it...

Thanks!

Hi bohemier,

In HikaShop, you can set different prices by currency.
And you can force a currency based on the user location, you need the plugin geolocation. It will select automatically the currency and the user couldn't find it, or as you said, you can create your own module to select a country and then force the currency.

ps: the documentation for the geolocation plugin (I think you already read this)
http://www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentation/76-hikashop-geolocation.html

Hello Xavier,

Thanks for the reply, yes I read that. My question was: Will the user be able to change his country when entering his address upon checkout?

Thanks

Thanks for the folowup Nicolas. So this will be a problem for me that I will need to fix. My client doesn't want a customer from the US to order something, pay in USD but have it shipped to UK for instance. Is there something I can do to fix this? This is why I need a country selection box in my store. Having the geolocation automatically set the country is a nice extra, but the main point for me is the country, and once the country is chosen, the currency should also be fixed.

Thanks!

Hi Nicolas, Thanks again for your reply.

Would I have to apply these modifications to the hikashop core or can I make template overrides? Could I also use the setUserState to set the country?

Regards

Hello Nicolas,

Where can I find the code for the guest address form at checkout (address and login step)? I'm trying to find the view for that and replace the line that outputs a select box for the country by the fixed country value in simple text.

Thanks

Thanks... nice to see that I can do that, but still, how can I override the output of those fields with my own code?

Thanks, the custom_fields override works well. I promised myself I'd never "hack the core" again... I'm still running a Joomla 1.0 website because I did that once. It's always preferable to override the output without modifying a hikashop class. So my solution is pretty much set up now:

- a module to switch the country, loaded with the hikashop country zones and defaults to the geolocated country
- the module switches currency and sets the zone once a country is selected
- the custom_fields override takes the zone info, translates that into a country zone_namekey and sets the address country. Then it simply outputs the country with a flag alongside the state selection.

Still have some adjustments here and there but I think it's pretty much solved. Thanks