Store Details

Currency code

The three-letter ISO code your store trades in, such as USD, EUR or GBP. This is the currency sent to your payment gateway with every charge, so it has to match what the gateway account is set up to take; a mismatch is rejected at payment time, not here. It is also the base the currency switcher converts from. Start typing and the field suggests valid codes.

Currency symbol

The symbol printed beside every price on the storefront, in emails and in the admin: $, €, £, kr, or anything up to ten characters. It is display only. The gateway never sees it, so you can write “US$” or “CA$” to tell two dollars apart without affecting what is charged.

Symbol position

Whether the symbol comes before the amount, as in $40.00, or after it, as in 40.00 €, which is the convention across much of Europe. The price preview at the top of the section updates as you switch, so you can see the result before saving. Beside it, Usual format shows how your currency code is normally written, in your store country’s way for the euro and the Canadian dollar, and Apply sets every field below to match.

Space between the symbol and the amount

Puts a space between the symbol and the amount, so prices read 93,00 € or CHF 12.00 instead of 93,00€, as most of Europe writes them. The space never lets a price break over two lines.

Show the currency code with prices

Prefixes every price with the ISO code as well as the symbol, so $40.00 becomes USD $40.00. Worth turning on when you sell into more than one country that uses the same symbol, since a Canadian shopper seeing a bare dollar sign will assume the wrong currency. On a single-country store it is clutter.

Decimal separator

The character between whole units and fractions: a point in the US, UK and most of Asia, a comma across most of continental Europe and South America. This affects how prices are printed, not how you type them into the admin, which always takes a point.

Thousands separator

The character between groups of three digits, so 1,250.00 or 1.250,00 or 1 250,00: a comma, a point, an apostrophe, a space ( France, Scandinavia and Poland write prices this way ) or none. Pick one that differs from the decimal separator; the panel warns you if they match, because a price like 1,250,00 is unreadable and a shopper will not know whether it is twelve hundred or a million.

Decimal places

How many digits follow the decimal separator. Two suits nearly every currency. Zero is right for the yen, the won and other currencies with no fractional unit, and three for the dinar family. Prices are rounded for display; the stored price keeps its precision.

Minus sign position

Where the minus sign sits on refunds, discounts and negative fees: before the symbol gives -$5.00, after it gives $-5.00. Most stores never change this. It is folded away because it only matters on the handful of screens that print negative amounts.

Currency

The rates the currency switcher widget uses when a shopper chooses to see prices in another currency. Each row is a currency code and how much of it one unit of your base currency buys, so with a USD base, EUR at 0.92 means one dollar shows as €0.92. Leave your base currency out. These are display conversions only: the order is still charged in the base currency, and the rates do not update themselves, so revisit them or remove the widget rather than show stale numbers. A new store starts with none.