Re: [GENERAL] Multiple currencies in a application

2006-11-22 Thread novnov
Thanks to the three of you for your thoughts, those are very very helpful perspectives that are going to help me design this. One note, I won't have to worry about multiple currencies on the internal bookeeping side of things, which is a major plus. Jorge Godoy-2 wrote: > > Alban Hertroys <[EMA

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple currencies in a application

2006-11-22 Thread Jorge Godoy
Alban Hertroys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A few things you'll probably want: > - Store prices in your db with their original currency > - Make sure you have up-to-date conversion rates (how up to date that > needs to be is up to you) > - Calculate actual prices on demand - Keep the highest pre

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple currencies in a application

2006-11-22 Thread Alban Hertroys
novnov wrote: > Bumping this in hopes that someone can give me a bit of input? Wow, nobody replied?... > novnov wrote: >> I'm working on an application that will eventually need to support various >> currencies. I've never touched this area before, have dealt with dollars >> till now. I'm not sur

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple currencies in a application

2006-11-22 Thread novnov
Bumping this in hopes that someone can give me a bit of input? novnov wrote: > > I'm working on an application that will eventually need to support various > currencies. I've never touched this area before, have dealt with dollars > till now. I'm not sure what the regular practices are re muli

[GENERAL] Multiple currencies in a application

2006-11-09 Thread novnov
I'm working on an application that will eventually need to support various currencies. I've never touched this area before, have dealt with dollars till now. I'm not sure what the regular practices are re mulitple currencies in the same application. The app includes calculations like price per un