The Currency Switcher for Easy Digital Downloads allows your store to display prices and accept payments in multiple currencies. This will make it possible for your visitors to shop in their favorite currency, eliminating the costs associated with credit card currency conversion.
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The Aelia Currency Switcher for Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) was a pioneer in bringing multi-currency support to the EDD ecosystem. However, its status has changed significantly in recent years due to a direct collaboration between Aelia and the official EDD team.
The most important thing to know is that Aelia officially retired the standalone plugin in September 2021.
The Collaboration: Aelia worked with the Easy Digital Downloads team to build a native multi-currency solution for EDD 3.0.
The Successor: If you are starting a new store today, you should use the official EDD Multi Currency extension (included with EDD Pro passes).
Legacy Support: If you were using the old Aelia plugin, there is a migration path to the official EDD version to ensure you don’t lose your settings or manual price entries.
For those still maintaining legacy sites or looking for specific Aelia-style functionality, the plugin (and its native successor) provides:
Multi-Currency Checkout: Unlike some plugins that only display converted prices, this allows customers to actually pay in their chosen currency, reducing bank conversion fees for the buyer.
Geolocation (GeoIP): It automatically detects the visitor’s country and switches the currency to the most appropriate local option.
Manual Price Overrides: You aren’t forced to use exchange rates. You can manually set a product to cost $10.00 USD, €12.00 EUR, and £9.00 GBP to account for specific market pricing strategies.
Exchange Rate Management:
Automatic: Pulls rates from providers like Open Exchange Rates.
Markup: Allows you to add a percentage (e.g., 2%) to the exchange rate to cover your own bank’s conversion costs.
Payment Gateway Filtering: You can choose which payment gateways appear for specific currencies (e.g., only show Stripe for USD and PayPal for EUR).
If you are using the legacy Aelia version, it typically requires:
Aelia Foundation Classes: A free “framework” plugin by Aelia that must be active for the switcher to work.
EDD Version: It was primarily designed for EDD 2.5 through 2.9. Compatibility with EDD 3.0+ is handled by the official migration.
