POLL: Global vs. customer currency

[kevinpapst]

Currently a customer gets a currency assigned. Initially I thought this gives more options for future enhancements. But actually it leads to a huge overhead in development time and and makes many tasks/features unnecessary complicated.

I would like to move the currency to a global system setting, instead of having at the customer level. The only place were this was really used before: in the invoice system.
Having the option to remove the currency from the customer, would simplify the codebase tremendously and would allow some features which are currently not even possible.

What I would like to know:
Do you use the feature "customer based currency" currently, e.g. for recoding or printing invoices in different currencies?

Possible answers

Please react with an emoji as voting and share any additionally thought in the comments.

👍 I use customer based currencies, keep it as is: at the customer level
🚀 I use the same currency for every customer, make it a global setting as in Kimai v1

[kevinpapst]

Thanks for leaving your votes so far! I'd like to understand your usage a bit better. To the ones who voted to keep the currency at the customer level: could you explain briefly how you use that feature exactly, e.g.:

Do you use the hourly/fixed rate feature?
Do you convert the currency manually or do you record the rates directly in the customers currency?
Do you print invoices/charge your customer in their countries currency?

I can only speak for my own experience: I always charge EUR no matter where the customer lives. So its up to the customer to do required currency conversion. But then: my main customer base is located in the country I am living, so this might not be representative.

[rarvin]

On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 14:27, Kevin Papst ***@***.***> wrote: Thanks for leaving your votes so far! I'd like to understand your usage a bit better. To the ones who voted to keep the currency at the customer level: could you explain briefly how you use that feature exactly, e.g.: Do you print invoices/charge your customer in their countries currency?

We operate from India and since inr is not one among the standard accepted exchange currencies we have to bill foreign customers in their base currency. We have two customers one in the Europe and we charge them in euros, and the other one in is the us so the rates we mention are in dollars. Anything within india like the work that is done by our outsource partners they are in INdian rupee.

I can only speak for my own experience: I always charge EUR no matter where the customer lives. So its up to the customer to do required currency conversion. But then: my main customer base is located in the country I am living, so this might not be representative. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#781>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AMA3M7UMHTTMWRRL6W3C3VTPWO2OBANCNFSM4HMK3FCQ> .

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Me too, similar to @rarvin, I have local customers who pay me in local currency (HUF), but I work for a french company as well, and as a EU member I can invoice/charge them in euros, and money only converted to HUF on the current rate, when the money arrives to my bank account. I don't convert manually, only when I check if I got the current amount, this can be weeks later than the invoice, with different rate when I made the invoice. I could even open a euro based bank account and in that case the money would be converted only when I take out from the bank.

Hungary won't change to euro in the next 10 years according to current plans, so it's not temporary for me.

So for global freelancers from 1.5/second/third world countries this feature is very useful. But I can live without this feature if it's very hard to maintain, I can multiply the hours by hand when I do an invoice just like with kimai1, but it was really nice to see with a glimpse how much I earned a day.

I use the hourly rate only.

[kevinpapst]

Thanks for your input!
If it is used by a couple of people alone in this poll, there are many others who will never see this discussion, but use the feature nevertheless.

In which case I will leave it as is and stick with the higher amount of work (in some cases).
It's good that we discussed it, I will try to open more polls in the future to discuss such changes before starting to work on them.

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