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Please allow me to make custom prices in euros in the "Create offer" window.


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Or at least clearly state the current conversion rate somewhere where I can easily see it.

I work mostly with european customers. We agree on a price in euros. I make them a custom offer but I'm forced to convert the price in dollars. As soon as the custom offer is created, I can see the resulting price in euros because I set euros as my currency. Oh no! The price is off by a few euros because the conversion rate used by Fiverr is different from the Google conversion rate! Now I need to redo the custom offer, cross my fingers, and the customer will be extremely confused.

I don't want to be paid in euros. I know that Fiverr uses dollars as currency. I just want to make prices in euros, then you can convert the price in dollars behind the scenes, as you already do.

Please update the "Create offer" window so that it shows prices in other currencies before the "Send offer" button is clicked, this is all that I'm asking for.

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3 minutes ago, slvideo1 said:

work mostly with european customers. We agree on a price in euros. I make them a custom offer but I'm forced to convert the price in dollars. As soon as the custom offer is created, I can see the resulting price in euros because I set euros as my currency. Oh no! The price is off by a few euros because the conversion rate used by Fiverr is different from the Google conversion rate! Now I need to redo the custom offer, cross my fingers, and the customer will be extremely confused.

Don't do that. As a seller, you should have the platform show you all prices in USD, and always tell clients the prices in USD. Always. 

That's the only currency the platform accepts as payment, and pays out, so there's no other option.

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29 minutes ago, visualstudios said:

Don't do that. As a seller, you should have the platform show you all prices in USD, and always tell clients the prices in USD. Always. 

That's the only currency the platform accepts as payment, and pays out, so there's no other option.

This isn't helpful at all and I had taken extra care saying that I do not want to be paid in euros, that I know Fiverr uses dollars as only currency, that I'm talking about custom offers, that my clients often need a price in their currency of use. Please read carefully before answering.

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59 minutes ago, slvideo1 said:

This isn't helpful at all and I had taken extra care saying that I do not want to be paid in euros, that I know Fiverr uses dollars as only currency, that I'm talking about custom offers, that my clients often need a price in their currency of use. Please read carefully before answering.

You should read what I said carefully.

If buyers want to see prices in euros, they can set Fiverr to show them euros. If they have the platform set to USD,  you obviously can't override that and show them prices in euros. What you're asking for makes absolutely no sense. I'm in Europe. I buy things on Fiverr. I want the prices to be shown in USD, that's what I have my account set to, and if a Seller was able to show me prices in Euros, because they want, I'd be pissed. That's not what I want.

Fiverr uses dollars as the base currency, so evidently all the prices must be set in dollars. What a user (buyer or seller) sees as a currency can be set by the user. I advise all users to leave it set to dollars, for simplicity, but buyers are free to set it to euros if they prefer to see prices in euros.

I've sold to European clients (both UK and Eurozone) many times, and never had a single issue with currencies. If anything, the only country that sometimes asks questions is Canada, and usually to conveniently mistake CAD for USD, since it would be cheaper for them.

The euro is stronger than the USD anyway. I'd kinda understand  the issue if a buyer was thinking "I'm going to pay 100", and then it shows up as 120 after the conversion to their currency. But it's the opposite - they see 100, but end up having to pay 90€ or something, so if anything it's a pleasant surprise (for the people who don't understand currencies).

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"I work mostly with european customers. We agree on a price in euros. "

This is your problem. You should not be selling in euros. Agree with prices in dollars. I deal with dollars if I'm selling to Italians, or French, or Japanese. Doesn't matter. That's the base currency for international trade, for best or for worst.

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1 hour ago, visualstudios said:

You should read what I said carefully.

If buyers want to see prices in euros, they can set Fiverr to show them euros. If they have the platform set to USD,  you obviously can't override that and show them prices in euros. What you're asking for makes absolutely no sense. I'm in Europe. I buy things on Fiverr. I want the prices to be shown in USD, that's what I have my account set to, and if a Seller was able to show me prices in Euros, because they want, I'd be pissed. That's not what I want.

Fiverr uses dollars as the base currency, so evidently all the prices must be set in dollars. What a user (buyer or seller) sees as a currency can be set by the user. I advise all users to leave it set to dollars, for simplicity, but buyers are free to set it to euros if they prefer to see prices in euros.

I've sold to European clients (both UK and Eurozone) many times, and never had a single issue with currencies. If anything, the only country that sometimes asks questions is Canada, and usually to conveniently mistake CAD for USD, since it would be cheaper for them.

The euro is stronger than the USD anyway. I'd kinda understand  the issue if a buyer was thinking "I'm going to pay 100", and then it shows up as 120 after the conversion to their currency. But it's the opposite - they see 100, but end up having to pay 90€ or something, so if anything it's a pleasant surprise (for the people who don't understand currencies).

I'm sorry but you're insisting on a matter that you clearly did not understand.

I can't and don't want to force my clients to see the price in euros. They can chose whatever currency they prefer.

All I want is to easily make a price that corresponds to a certain number of euros that me and my client agreed on.

I will explain it in an even simpler way:

I make a custom offer. I make the price in dollars. I click "create offer". Now I can instantly see the price that I just made in euros because my currency of choice is euros.

I want to see the euros conversion rate used by Fiverr before I click "create offer".

You can't tell me this is not possible or makes no sense. It's a minor tweak in an otherwise great platform.

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But that doesn't help, because you should have already told the client the price before sending the offer.

What I'm saying is that you need to forget this "paid in euros". Think in dollars, and your problem is solved. The ration euro/dollar is very stable, so it doesn't matter in the long run anyway. You'll make 1€ more here, 1€ less there, and over the long run, if you set your prices in dollars to be around 1.15 what you want to make in euros, it will even out. 

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24 minutes ago, visualstudios said:

But that doesn't help, because you should have already told the client the price before sending the offer.

What I'm saying is that you need to forget this "paid in euros". Think in dollars, and your problem is solved. The ration euro/dollar is very stable, so it doesn't matter in the long run anyway. You'll make 1€ more here, 1€ less there, and over the long run, if you set your prices in dollars to be around 1.15 what you want to make in euros, it will even out. 

I get it but some of my clients are a bit narrow-minded. They definitely have set euros as their currency, if they managed to. Sometimes I edit a short tiktok video for a few bucks and I'd like them to see the correct price. It doesn't look good if I say 10 and then they see a different number.

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