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currently civicrm is limited to one currency / install. Would be great if someone can step up and add multi-currency support to the project. Note that this is not a trivial project (though not terribly complex either). Contact us on IRC if you'd like to start work on the project

lobo

currently civicrm is limited to one currency / install. Would be great if someone can step up and add multi-currency support to the project. Note that this is not a trivial project (though not terribly complex either). Contact us on IRC if you'd like to start work on the project

lobo

Oh. That's sad news. 
I was just about to run with CiviCRM as the solution for my Joomla integrated CRM and event handling. Darn.
I host events in more than one country. I have to price the events in the currency local to where it is hosted.
I think I have now looked into and tried every solution available for joomla integrated event management, and this is the one issue preventing me from moving forward. There is the odd assumption made that events are only going to be held in one country... or that it is ok to price events for in a currency foreign to the people going to the event (i.e. charging CA$ for an event in Finland).

Well.. here is a hand up for someone else looking for this feature. Wish I knew how to code. I'd step up and make it happen.

Cheers,
Jonathan   

i would speculate that one currency / one language is the majority of use cases for CiviCRM currently.

Yes. It seems this may be the case. I guess there aren't too many international organisations using the various joomla based event registration systems I've looked at, including CiviCRM.
It is, in my observation, rare for an international organisation/company to charge for an event in a country using a currency from elsewhere. For instance, in New Zealand a lot of Australian organisations host events. I've never seen them charge in AU$. As a Kiwi I can say that a customer in NZ would consider that really odd and annoying. Here in Europe (where I am at present) if a UK org hosts an event in Finland I doubt they would even consider pricing it in £ rather than €. Again, the people here would find that odd. Certainly all the events I see whilst I am here in Finland are put on by NON Finnish orgs (because I am only taking note of English events which typically are from the UK or the USA) and they are always priced in Euros.

It just so happens that this organisation (aka. Me) gets around to many countries.

You can consider sponsoring the feature and/or hiring a developer to integrate it with CiviCRM.

Any idea what it costs for that kind of work? I haven't a clue.

Cheers,
Jonathan

Thanks.
Without that sort of cash on hand, this is a deal breaker here.
Oh well.
The hunt continues...

Thanks for your help.