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What Happened To The Cents?

 

Written by goprophoto.eu, on 11-11-2011 17:09

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cent.pngDid you notice that our prices are now all full Euros or Dollars without cents? Do you really miss them?

Here's what's going on to cut it short. Our prices are in Euros at default. When you change the shop currency to another, the system grabs the current rate from the European Central Bank and recalculates them according to that. So we are always up to date and give a fair price to all who would like to pay in some other currency we support. It's all very nice until this point.

The currencies wore set with 2 decimal places to be able to show nice prices like 9.99. When they got exchanged, they got rounded to be with 2 decimals. The problem is that some currencies out there don't have any change. Like Hungarian Forints which is one of ours. When they got converted they also got them. This was unacceptable for Paypal's system, one payment option we use, and it threw back an error which made checking out impossible in this particular currency. We had two option sto choose from. Drop Forints or drop the cents. We have put in a lot of work translating this site's content to Hungarian and without the option to pay in Forints would have just been silly. So we dropped the cents.

Those prices that ended with .99 we rounded down. So, good bye 199.99, hello 199. You save 99 cents. Who's laughing now?  


Last update : 11-11-2011 18:12


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