Using currencies dialog
General
| Update on-line | Trigger to update exchanges rate on-line. This is disabled when you only have a single currency. |
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Update Online is an extra feature relying on a third party web service.
Your currencies may not be supported:
- as base currency: and nothing will update
- as a target currency: this currency will not be updated
See additional notes below
Currencies list
display currency ISO code, name, symbol, exchange rate and last modified date
Buttons
| Add | open a dialog to add a new currency + see the notes below. |
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| Edit | open a dialog to edit the selected currency |
| Delete | delete the selected currency |
| Set as base | set the selected currency to be the base currency |
Add currency notes
- you can pick up new currencies from the official ISO 4217 list
- you can define a custom currency for discontinued or cryptocurrency
When you define a custom currency, please take care of the following:
- the Name must be at least 3 chars long
- the ISO code is optional, but you cannot change it easily later on
- the ISO code must be 3 chars long and cannot be the same an existing ISO 4217 one
Online Currency Update
The current API is:
- frankfurter.app
- list of supported currencies
Previous third party API service used in the past.
- until 5.2: https://api.fixer.io, see #1785210
- until 5.1.7: yahoo, see #1730527
