ZimRate

Description

Add automatic Zimbabwean currency conversion to your site.
This plugin modifies the result from listed plugins api calls before they are submitted to plugin.

This plugin directly supports these plugins:

• Multi Currency for WooCommerce
• Multi Currency for WooCommerce
• CurrencyConverter
• Currency Switcher for WooCommerce
• Currency Exchange for WooCommerce
• WOOCS – WooCommerce Currency Switcher

All Zimbabwean rates are obtained from ZimRate and caching is provided in plugin to avoid overloading the server though you are free to disable caching.

This plugin also provides a short code which you can use to display latest exchange rates without updating your posts to ever changing exchange rates.

Note: This plugin is not directly a currency switcher (as that would be redundant considering the number of options on www.ads-software.com).

Third Party Services

This plugin uses a few third party services to convert currencies originally not supported by ZimRate to USD. This is done based on the url requested by supported plugin which may include currencies other than USD. Furthermore to reduce calculation errors (due to exchange rate variance), that supported plugin’s api is used to get the related exchange rates as USD. These api calls are not done unless requested by the supported plugin.

Listed below are supported plugins including how the api services they use are used by this plugin as well as their privacy policy and/or terms of service links:

• Multi Currency for WooCommerce
  • villatheme.com Privacy Policy
  • When plugin requests for rates from above api, this plugin modifies the returned exchange rates to include the Zimbabwean currency and may go on to do another request to get the rate for requested currencies against the USD.
• Multi Currency for WooCommerce
  • alphavantage.co Support
  • When plugin requests for rates from above api, this plugin modifies the returned exchange rates to include the Zimbabwean currency and may go on to do another request to get the rate for requested currencies against the USD.
• CurrencyConverter
  • exchangerate.guru Privacy Policy
  • When plugin requests for rates from above api, this plugin modifies the returned exchange rates to include the Zimbabwean Currency. The exchange rates are already rated against the USD so no further api call are done.
• Currency Switcher for WooCommerce
  • Provides a filter to directly modify the returned exchange rates, though this plugin will use some of it’s internal functions to get requested exchange rate in relation to USD.
• Currency Exchange for WooCommerce
  • Provides a filter to directly modify the returned exchange rates.
• WOOCS – WooCommerce Currency Switcher
  • Provides a filter to directly modify the returned exchange rates, though this plugin will use some of it’s internal functions to get requested exchange rate in relation to USD.

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Installation

Automatic installation

Automatic installation is the easiest option — WordPress will handle the file transfer, and you won’t need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of Zimrate, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu, and click “Add New.”

In the search field type “ZimRate”, then click “Search Plugins.” Once you’ve found us, you can view details about it such as the point release, rating, and description. Most importantly of course, you can install it by! Clicking “Install Now,” and WordPress will take it from there.

Manual installation

1. Upload /zimrate/ to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

FAQ

What’s this?

A currency injector for wordpress plugins. When said plugin requests for latest currency rates using wordpress’ functions, this plugin modifies the result before it is submitted to the requesting plugin.

Where’s my favourate plugin?

Though have tried to cover as many plugins as possible, there is a limitation on the plugins that can be directly supported.
This plugin relies on a plugin using wordpress’ internal http_request feature which has hooks to modify the result or if said plugin has hooks to modify result before use.
If you have a plugin that you want added, you are free to contact.

What if i need feature X?

You are free to contact and will happily add feature X as long as it is in the scope of the plugin.

Easy Digital Downloads is not supported?

Though would have wanted to supported Easy Digital Downloads, could not get hold of a currency convertor for it.

Reviews

Helped me save time

Richard Muvirimi May 4, 2021

Instead of always checking in to update store rates daily, this plugin allowed me to focus on other important stuff

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.1.3

• Minor Bug Fixes

1.1.0 – 1.1.2

• add WOOCS – WooCommerce Currency Switcher support

1.0.0

• Initial Release.