I have been asked on a few occasions by people how to add a new currency to WooCommerce. It’s actually incredibly simple to do thanks to the excellent WooCommerce API. Simply add the following code to your theme functions.php file or to a plugin of your own for this to work. I used this same code in my recent Interswitch Payment Gateway integration for WooCommerce to add Nigerian Naira.
add_filter('woocommerce_currencies', 'sb_add_ngn_currency');
add_filter('woocommerce_currency_symbol', 'sb_add_ngn_currency_symbol', 10, 2);
function sb_add_ngn_currency($currencies) {
$currencies['NGN'] = __( 'Nigerian Naira (NGN)', 'woocommerce' );
return $currencies;
}
function sb_add_ngn_currency_symbol($currency_symbol, $currency) {
switch( $currency ) {
case 'NGN':
$currency_symbol = '₦';
break;
}
return $currency_symbol;
}
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Hi,
Great code.
But whenever I add this code to the custom functions section of the functions.php, the website refuses to load.
Am I doing something wrong?
Hi,
Never mind..I downloaded your plugin for interswitch and this corrected the currency challenge.
Many thanks and great job.
Thanks a lot for helping …you really care about Nigeria because we have waited too long for an affordable payment gateway- a major problem to Nigerians’ small business owners who want an online presence.
Can we get a step by step direction on adding currency?
Thanks for the great job you’re doing.
You just need to open up your theme functions.php file and put my code at the bottom before the closing ?>. It should work automatically then.
thanks
Sean
I’m trying to add the Nigerian Naira to my site. Would this work for other ecommerce themes.
No sorry Dave this works only for WooCommerce.
thanks
Sean
it works for me, thanks Sean!!!
What about this code bellow Sean?
add_filter( ‘woocommerce_currencies’, ‘add_my_currency’ );
function add_my_currency( $currencies ) {
$currencies['NGN'] = __( ‘Naira’, ‘woocommerce’ );
return $currencies;
}
add_filter(‘woocommerce_currency_symbol’, ‘add_my_currency_symbol’, 10, 2);
function add_my_currency_symbol( $currency_symbol, $currency ) {
switch( $currency ) {
case ‘NGN’: $currency_symbol = ‘₦’; break;
}
return $currency_symbol;
}
Thanks Ken,
It’s identical to mine
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S
Quite helpful. Works for me. Thanks Sean
Hi,
How to show multiple currency in the product page for a single product. Like sell a product for $70 and €75
Am using woocommerce shopping cart and woo commerce multilingual plugin.
Can you assist me in the steps how to go about?
Regards,
Raghav.
Hi Raghav,
Adding several currencies at once would be cumbersome but there is a widget you can get which converts the currency for you on the fly I think. I have never used it myself but it seems to work in their examples. It’s $29 which isn’t too expensive for the functionality it offers.
thanks
Sean
Hi, Sean. I came across your website a few weeks ago and I was really thrilled cos it solved a big problem I was having at the time which was how to add the Naira currency to woocommerce. I dowloaded your plugin for interswitch and it worked. However, the naira sign does not appear on my price tags. I don’t know why. Only the currencies that originally came with woocommerce appears. Please I don’t know if you have an answer to this. Would really appreciate your helps. Thanks a lot.
Hey Ayisha,
Thanks for the feedback. I will look into it. However in the meantime just check the shop currency in the WooCommerce settings. Maybe you didn’t change it there?
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S