multiple currencies
I would like to suggest multiple currencies as a premium feature. I think Instaproofs shopping cart should allow the user to select between different currencies for their payment, the same way Zenfolio and SmugMug are now doing. I know supported currencies today are USD, Euros, GBP, AUD and CAD, but those are available only for the photographer, at the moment of setup. Why not make all of those available to our clients via a drop-down menu inside their gallery? Payment to the photographer could still be done via the currency chosen at the moment of setup. Actually, client payment could still be done with the setup currency, but I think it's important to let clients choose the currency they want to see their prices in, so they don't need to use a calculator to figure out how much their prints will cost. For example, I could set up 3 different pricing lists with the equivalent currencies (say for example USD, Euros and GBP - and in the future SEK, since I live in Sweden and we have our own currency here) and have the client choose which one they would like to see, together with a note explaining payments will be made in Euros (my main currency). Then at the moment of checkout payment would be made in Euros and payment to my paypal would be made in Euros too, as it is right now. The pricing lists would act more like currency translations, simple tables. That would please our clients and improve our sales.
Thanks for the suggestion. After much research and debate we feel that this isn’t something that we will offer anytime in the foreseeable future. With how quickly exchange rates change (hundreds of times per day), listing an estimated price in a currency other than the photographer’s selected currency has the possibility of creating too much customer confusion when they receive billing statements for amounts different than what they saw on the site.