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title: Configuring exchange rates
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).
If you want to allow your [customers](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/customers.md) to make their [orders](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/orders.md) in multiple currencies, you need to define exchange rates for your on-line store. Exchange rates in Xperience are organized into **exchange tables**. The prices of order items, [shipping](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/configuring-shipping-options.md), etc. are then converted to the the specific [currency](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/configuring-currencies.md) based on the currently valid exchange table.
> **Info:** Generally, there are only two cases when you do not need to create an exchange table:
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> - You use only one global currency (and no site currencies).\
> _-OR-_
> - You use only one site currency and you do not use any global object (for example, global [product](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/products.md) or [tax class](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/configuring-taxes.md)).
To set up exchange rates:
1. [Set whether you want to use site or global exchange rates.](#using-site-and-global-exchange-rates)
2. [Create an exchange table that will convert prices among currencies.](#creating-exchange-tables)
## Using site and global exchange rates
Before starting to create an exchange table, decide whether you want to use [global exchange rates or site exchange rates](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/choosing-site-or-global-e-commerce-configuration.md). Base your decision on what type of [currencies](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/configuring-currencies.md) you use.
1. Open the **Store configuration** application (if you want to set the setting for the current site) or the **Multistore configuration** application (if you want to set the setting [globally](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/choosing-site-or-global-e-commerce-configuration.md)).
2. Navigate to the **Store settings -> Global objects** tab.
3. Set the **Exchange rates** field:
- If you are working in the **Store configuration** application, clear the _Inherit from global settings_ option.
- To use global exchange rates, select the checkbox. To use site exchange rates, clear the checkbox.
4. Click **Save**.
The system now uses the specified type of exchange tables.
## Creating exchange tables
The exchange tables are set for a given time period. This means that you can define a new exchange table, for example, for each day.
> **Tip:** If you do not want to enter the exchange rates manually, you can also extend Xperience for a real-time exchange rate update functionality. [Customize the system](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/customizing-on-line-stores/e-commerce-customization-model.md) or install a feature from the [Kentico Marketplace](https://devnet.kentico.com/marketplace).
To create a new exchange table:
1. Open the **Store configuration** application (if you want to specify the exchange table for the current site) or the **Multistore configuration** application (if you want to specify the table [globally](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/choosing-site-or-global-e-commerce-configuration.md)).
2. Switch to the **Exchange rates** tab.
3. Click **New exchange table** to add an exchange rate table.
4. Enter the properties of the exchange rate table:
| Display name | The name of the exchange table used on your website in the administration interface. |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Valid from | Indicates since when the exchange table is valid. For unlimited validity, leave the field empty.
You can click **Now** to insert the current date and time or you can click to choose the date and time from the calendar. |
| Valid to | Indicates until when the exchange table is valid. For unlimited validity, leave the field empty.
You can click **Now** to insert the current date and time or you can click to choose the date and time from the calendar. |
5. **Save** the exchange table.
6. In the **Exchange rate** section, specify the exchange rates.
- Type the rate in the form of how much money of the original main currency is needed for one unit of the new main currency. For example, when you change United States Dollars for Euros and the exchange rate is 1 USD = 0.90 EUR, type _1.1111_ to the field (that is the result of 1 divided by 0.9), or when you change United States Dollars for Australian Dollars and the exchange rate is 1 USD = 1.30 AUD, type _0.7692_ to the field (that is the result of 1 divided by 1.3).
> **Info:** If you allowed any [global data](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/choosing-site-or-global-e-commerce-configuration.md) that contains prices and the global main currency does not have the same code name as the site main currency, the system displays two tables in the **Exchange rates** section.
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> First, you need to enter the exchange rates from the global main currency to the site main currency and then, second, from the site main currency to other currencies on the site.
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> **The global main currency is also one of site currencies**
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> In this case, the exchange rate is used from the second table (**From main currency to other currencies**) and you can see only one exchange table again.
7. **Save** the exchange table.
The system creates a new exchange table which is valid from and to the specified dates. Currently valid exchange tables are highlighted with a green background.
