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Vintage Digital LLC is comprised of seven Web professionals with roughly 50 years combined experience in software development. The team has been involved with the Drupal project since version 4.7 and has engaged in many upgrade projects in that time. The team has expertise in custom module development, theming, configuration, integrations, imports, project management, design, and quality assurance. The team has contributed modules, themes, presentations, and documentation to the Drupal community, including attendance at many Drupalcons and multiple Drupalcamps.

The Vintage Digital Team follows Drupal best practices, not hacking core or contributed modules but rather writing modules and theme functions that produce desired behaviors. The attention to Drupal standards rewards the site owner with the easiest possible upgrades from one version of Drupal to the next.

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How to Add Multicurrency Support to Ubercart
John Fiala
14 years 16 weeks ago

Recently I had the privilege of working on the conversion of Novus Biological's website to Drupal 6, selling scientific supplies using Ubercart. I did this as a freelancer for the talented folks at SpireMedia, working with them as well as with fellow Vintage Digital member Ben Jeavons. It was a fantastically intense experience.

Ubercart's a great system out of the box, but there were a number of features on the site which made this implementation difficult.

  1. There were about 70,000 products, which is probably two or three orders of magnitude greater than the usual Ubercart site.
  2. The site needed to work with three currencies, and four prices, depending on the user's location or selection. Ubercart doesn't handle this well.
  3. The site needed to have two kinds of discounts - ones available to most any user, and ones only available to users who had bought the discount with userpoints.

I'll probably write about all of these in time, but at the moment I want to comment on that second item.

A close-up of the novusbio website, showing the region-change text
If you take a look at www.novusbio.com, or the image above, you'll see a bit of text in the upper right hand corner which says something like 'US site', or 'Europe Site', or 'Great Britain site', or 'World Site', with a little arrow next to it letting you change your region. We would start by pre-selecting a region for the user based on which IP they were browsing from, and then users could change it. If you go to a product page on Novus' site, you'll see different prices based on which of these are currently selected, as well as different currency signs. Since doing something like this is what some people would like to be able to do, I wanted to take a little time to go over how we did this.