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Multi-currency — selling and invoicing in foreign currencies

Create your sales documents (quotation → order → delivery note → invoice) in foreign currencies (USD, GBP, CHF, SEK, PLN, etc.): prices automatically converted at the European Central Bank’s daily exchange rate, PDFs in the customer’s currency, equivalent value in euros in the accounts, and exchange rate differences automatically recorded upon receipt of payment. Module can be enabled per company; disabled by default.

What it is for

As soon as you have customers outside the eurozone, they expect quotations and invoices in THEIR currency. Without the right tool, this means converting prices manually, recalculating them every time the exchange rate changes, and managing the difference between the invoiced amount and the amount actually received in your accounts. This module takes care of everything: once enabled for the company, every sales document is assigned a currency (selected in the Currencies tab of the quotation, then carried through from document to document right up to the invoice). Catalogue prices are automatically converted at the current exchange rate — rates from the European Central Bank are imported daily, and a rate entered manually in Advanced Accounting › Currencies always takes precedence over the automatic rate (it is never overwritten). The PDF of the document (and its Factur-X version) is generated in the selected currency. In the accounts, each entry retains its equivalent value in euros at the exchange rate on the invoice date. Upon receipt of payment, if the exchange rate has changed between the date of invoicing and the date of payment, the REALISED exchange rate difference is automatically recognised (financial income or expense: accounts 766/666 in the French chart of accounts, equivalents SKR04 in the German chart of accounts). Order and delivery note records display the document’s currency when viewed. Existing documents remain unchanged: the module only affects documents created after it has been activated.