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Problem:
French Canadian pricing uses he dollar sign after the number i.e. 22.00$ not $22.00

Is there an easy way to accommodate this for the translated side of the site?

Solution:
To configure the currency for the secondary language of your website please follow these steps:

- Navigate to WooCommerce -> WooCommerce Multilingual -> Multi-currency tab
- Enable the multi-currency mode if it's not enabled already and click on 'Add currency'
- Select 'Canadian Dollar' and pick an exchange rate for it
- Mark the Currency position as 'Right' and save it
- Finally, please enable the new added currency to the desired language and click on 'Save changes' at the bottom of the page

Now, when users switch to the secondary language, they'll see the new currency you created.

Additionally, you can check about adding a currency switcher.

With this option you are able to switch currencies without even having to access the translated version of your website.

Relevant Documentation:

You can find more info about these WCML features here: https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/woocommerce-multilingual/multi-currency-support-woocommerce/

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Last updated by Mateus Getulio 4 years, 4 months ago.

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July 30, 2020 at 2:05 pm #6709397

jimN-3

French Canadian pricing uses he dollar sign after the number i.e. 22.00$ not $22.00

Is there an easy way to accommodate this for the translated side of the site?

TYIA

July 30, 2020 at 4:37 pm #6710557

Mateus Getulio
Supporter

Languages: English (English ) Portuguese (Brazil) (Português )

Timezone: America/Sao_Paulo (GMT-03:00)

Hey there,

Thank you for reaching out to the WPML support.

To configure the currency for the secondary language of your website please follow these steps:

- Navigate to WooCommerce -> WooCommerce Multilingual -> Multi-currency tab
- Enable the multi-currency mode if it's not enabled already and click on 'Add currency'
- Select 'Canadian Dollar' and pick an exchange rate for it
- Mark the Currency position as 'Right' and save it
- Finally, please enable the new added currency to the desired language and click on 'Save changes' at the bottom of the page

Now, when users switch to the secondary language, they'll see the new currency you created.

Additionally, you can check about adding a currency switcher.

With this option you are able to switch currencies without even having to access the translated version of your website.

You can find more info about these WCML features here: https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/woocommerce-multilingual/multi-currency-support-woocommerce/

If you need anything else don't hesitate to contact us.

Thank you,

Mateus

July 30, 2020 at 9:27 pm #6711567

jimN-3

Hi Mateus thanks so much for the response. The next issue is that I cant seem to choose two instances of Canadian dollars. One for english and one for french

July 31, 2020 at 1:19 pm #6715905

Mateus Getulio
Supporter

Languages: English (English ) Portuguese (Brazil) (Português )

Timezone: America/Sao_Paulo (GMT-03:00)

Hello there,

Currently, the options to add the same currency twice or more or to customize the same currency for specific languages are not available.

As a workaround, and following the steps above, you can add a different currency like the 'United States dollar' and configure one of them to have the dollar sign on the left and the other on the right. After that you'll be able to select the right currency for the main and secondary languages of your website.

It would be also possible to achieve it with some code customization. I'm afraid it would be beyond the scope of this support forum but we recommend that you check our contractors page: https://wpml.org/contractors/.

Alternatively, please feel free to request this feature in the link: https://wpml.org/suggest-a-new-feature-for-wpml/.

We will analyze it and upon further check, it might be available in the next versions of WPML and WCML.

If you need anything else don't hesitate to contact us.

Best,

Mateus