Show Store Prices in Any Currency, Without the Headache

The WooCommerce Price Dropdown Plugin detects your visitor’s country, switches to their currency automatically, and converts every price on your store in real time. No subscriptions. No API keys to hunt down. Just install it and it works.

01Why Currency Actually Matters on Your Store

If someone visits your store from Germany and sees prices in US dollars, they’ll mentally try to convert it, probably get it wrong, and feel unsure. Most people don’t complete purchases when they feel unsure.

It’s not about showing a different symbol. It’s about removing friction. When someone from Pakistan sees a price in PKR, or someone from Japan sees it in JPY, the decision feels easier. That’s the whole point of the WooCommerce Price Dropdown Plugin.

Here’s what it takes off your plate:

• Automatic detection on first visit

  Uses the visitor’s IP address to identify their country and set the right currency before the page loads.

• Live price conversion across your entire store

  Every product price, variation, shipping rate, and coupon amount gets converted using up-to-date exchange rates.

• A clean dropdown for manual switching

  Visitors can switch to any country from a searchable dropdown with flags and currency codes. Works with keyboard too.

• Their choice is remembered

  The selected currency persists across pages and sessions for 30 days, using both WooCommerce session storage and a secure cookie.

02Everything the Plugin Handles for You

03How Country Detection Works Behind the Scenes

When someone visits your store for the first time, the plugin reads their IP address and checks it against ipinfo.io, a geolocation service with a generous free tier. It gets the country code, looks up the matching currency, and sets it as the active currency for that session.

The plugin is smart about which IP to use. Visitors behind Cloudflare, a proxy, or a load balancer will have a different IP in the standard REMOTE_ADDR header. So it checks headers in priority order:

Detection only runs on the front end, first visit, when no currency has been selected yet. It skips admin pages, AJAX requests, REST API calls, and CLI runs entirely, so it never adds overhead where it isn’t needed.

Geolocation Results Are Cached

Once a visitor’s country is detected, the result is cached for 24 hours using a WordPress transient keyed to a hash of their IP address. The same visitor won’t trigger another API call during that window, even across multiple page loads.

04Try the Dropdown Right Here

This is an accurate preview of how the currency selector looks and behaves on your store. The search, keyboard navigation, and selection all work the same way as the real plugin.

05Getting It Installed in a Few Steps

Installation works like any WordPress plugin. Download the zip file from the section at the bottom of this page, then:

1. Go to Plugins > Add New in your WordPress dashboard and click Upload Plugin
2. Upload the downloaded .zip file and click Install Now
3. Activate the plugin. On activation, it creates two database tables, seeds country and currency data, fetches initial exchange rates, and schedules a daily cron job
4. Navigate to WooCommerce > Multi-Currency to review the settings and confirm rates loaded correctly
5. Add the shortcode [price_dropdown] to any page, header widget, or template file where you want the selector to appear

06Placing the Currency Selector on Your Pages

The dropdown renders via a simple shortcode. Drop it into a page, a widget, or a theme template file anywhere you want visitors to see and switch currencies.

The Shortcode and Its Attributes

Using It in a PHP Template File

If you want to add the dropdown directly inside a theme template or header file rather than a page, use do_shortcode():

07The Three Settings Worth Knowing About

The plugin is intentionally lean on configuration. You’ll find the settings under WooCommerce > Multi-Currency. There’s a status bar at the top showing the last rate update, when the next one is scheduled, and how many currencies are in the database.

• ipinfo_token
  ipinfo.io API token (optional). The free tier gives you 50,000 geolocation lookups per month without any token. If your store gets more traffic than that, add a token here to increase your limit. Get one free at ipinfo.io/signup.
• auto_detect
  Enable automatic country detection. When checked, the plugin will detect a new visitor’s country from their IP and set their currency automatically. If unchecked, the dropdown will still work for manual selection, but nothing gets set until the visitor picks a country themselves.
• refresh_interval
  Exchange rate update frequency. Choose between every 6 hours, 12 hours, or once daily. Daily is the default and is fine for most stores. Rates don’t move dramatically hour to hour for major currencies. There’s also a manual refresh button if you ever need to force an update immediately.

08Prices Convert Across Your Entire Store, Not Just Product Pages

A multi-currency plugin that only converts product page prices isn’t that useful. This one hooks into every price-related part of WooCommerce so the conversion is consistent everywhere.

Zero-Decimal Currencies

Some currencies like JPY, KRW, and VND don’t use decimal places. The plugin detects these and formats prices accordingly so you never end up showing something like “¥1,299.00” when it should be “¥1,299”.

Currencies handled as zero-decimal: BIF, CLP, DJF, GNF, ISK, JPY, KMF, KRW, MGA, PYG, RWF, UGX, VND, VUV, XAF, XOF, XPF

Symbol Positioning

Some currencies display their symbol after the number (like 100 kr for Swedish Krona). The plugin handles suffix placement for: SEK, NOK, DKK, ISK, HUF, PLN, CZK, RON, and BGN so formatting looks correct in each region.

09See the Conversion in Action

Type any price in USD and pick a currency to see how the plugin converts it. The exchange rates shown here are representative values for illustration.

10Every Order Keeps a Full Currency Record

When an order is placed, the plugin saves the currency details that were active at checkout as order meta. This works for both the classic WooCommerce checkout and the newer block-based checkout.

This means you’ll always know what exchange rate the customer saw, which matters for refunds, disputes, or reconciliation.

11Built with Standard WordPress Security Practices

The plugin follows WordPress and WooCommerce security standards throughout. Nothing unusual, nothing cutting corners.

12What You Need Before Installing