I’m new to clz and currently using the games products, though I expect this may apply to the others, as well. It would be nice to be able to select different currencies for purchases, I travel regularly and have purchases in EUR, CHF, GBP, USD and JPY. Would it be possible in a future release to support multiple currencies in a collection and set them per game/item as one does other parameters? If this is already available, apologies, I couldn’t find anything other than setting a default currency.
Welcome!
Currently, the currency can only be set at the global level and then hold for all albums, all price and value fields.
Allowing to set a separate currency for each price or value has been on our idea list for quite a while. However, even though this sounds like a simple addition, it is not.
There is one big problem with this: Totals. The main reason why users want to enter prices and values is to see totals in the Statistics screen.
So, as soon as we would allow setting a currency for each field separately:
- there would still be a need to provide some kind of total for these entered prices
- obviously, the prices entered can then not be summed up anymore
- so the program would need to either:
- show separate totals for each currency
OR - use exchange rate to convert prices to one “target” currency and total them that way
- show separate totals for each currency
- which means that there needs to be some setting to choose the “target currency” for totals
- it also means the program would need to know about exchange rates
- and while exchange rate change all the time, it would need to have some way to automatically download current exchange rates.
- also users of course want to convert the currency using the exchange rate at the time of purchase.
- so the program would even need to know about historical exchange rates.
That said, it does not mean we will ever implement this though 
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