[SOLVED] Currency rates inaccurate

[duncanmoo]

My client's shop is set up in ZAR with the wonderful currency conversion feature giving them conversions to EUR, USD and GBP, but I noticed today that the rates on http://www.prestasho.../currencies.xml, which is where the site looks to update the currencies, are totally inaccurate.

 

Using EUR to USD I compared this to http://www.ecb.europ...fxref-daily.xml (1.3448) and the standard Google search conversion (1.3466) http://www.google.co...00&bih=751&bs=1 to what I get on the Prestashop feed (1.4402)

 

This is totally out and probably a bit out of date, probably nothing wrong with the module, but the feed is not getting updated perhaps?

[Mike Kranzler]

Hi duncan,

Thank you very much for reporting this. If you could, please post this to our bug tracker by clicking here, and then fill out all the information pertaining to your system and this issue.

 

Once you do that, please come back here and post a link to your report and I will monitor it personally to make sure that we take care of this for you.

 

The sooner you do this the better, because I sit down with a developer every afternoon to go over these reports and fix them one by one. If you hurry, we can hopefully work on this today!

 

-Mike

[pakatemp]

Looks like they don't update this every day. Date stamp on the XML file is August 30, 2011. Someone needs to write a script to update these conversion rates every day from an available online source.

ooLT

[Mike Kranzler]

This has now been fixed on the server end, hopefully you shouldn't have any more issues!

 

-Mike

[duncanmoo]

Thanks Mike, recent severe exchange rate fluctuations made this pronounced, thanks for sorting it out.

 

While trying to find a solution to this I added a cron job to update these on a daily basis, is this still necessary in the latest version of Prestashop? Ref: http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/75337-solved-can-currency-auto-update-without-manually-click-on-update-currencies-daily/

 

~Duncan

[Mike Kranzler]

Hi Duncan,

If the cron job still works for you, I would continue to use that method because it doesn't automatically update in the back office, you still need to click to update the currencies each time.

 

-Mike