Automatic ECB exchange rates

About the Extension

Outdated exchange rates cost trust — and revenue abroad

Do you sell internationally? Your customers expect prices in their local currency. If amounts look outdated or implausible, trust breaks — often before the cart is full. At the same time, maintaining conversion rates manually costs time, creates stress, and invites errors. Yesterday's rate is not enough when your shop competes today.

Shopware includes currencies, but not automatic retrieval of daily rates from an official source. Shops offering multiple foreign currencies often update factors by hand or rely on stale values. That leads to price discrepancies, support inquiries, and weaker conversion — even when your assortment and pricing strategy are solid.

Why daily rates matter in your shop

Exchange rates change every day. Especially in B2B and cross-border trade, every percentage point counts: margins, competitiveness, and the credibility of your offer. Customers compare quickly. If your shop works with outdated conversions, it looks unprofessional — and you carry the financial risk alone.

You need a solution that delivers rates reliably, makes changes traceable, and still leaves you in control. Not a spreadsheet beside the shop, but automation that works in everyday operations.

How CurrentCurrencies works behind the scenes

CurrentCurrencies fetches exchange rates daily directly from the European Central Bank and imports them automatically into your shop. The data comes from the official ECB source — reliable, transparent, and without manual exports.

A scheduled task handles regular updates. You can also trigger the import from the currency overview with one click via the Update factor button when you need an immediate refresh. That keeps you flexible without giving up automation.

Full control per currency

Not every currency should behave the same. That is why you enable automatic updates per currency separately. In the extended backend overview, you see update status, last factor, last change, and configured buffer at a glance.

The buffer lets you add a percentage margin to the ECB rate — for example, a ten percent markup on the imported factor. That covers fluctuations or internal calculations without recalculating rates manually. When needed, you can still intervene and correct individual values.

Important: The default currency must be EUR, because the ECB publishes reference rates against the euro. With this basis, all supported currencies can be calculated cleanly.

Transparency and flexibility for developers

In the admin, you keep track of when each currency was last adjusted. Additional columns in the currency list make changes traceable — for you and your team. That protects against silent deviations and simplifies alignment with finance or sales.

For individual storefront presentations, Twig functions are available: use netiGetCurrentCurrency and netiGetAllCurrencies to bind currency data directly in templates — without theme workarounds.

Who benefits most from this plugin

CurrentCurrencies is aimed at shop operators and agencies that sell internationally and need up-to-date prices without daily manual effort. Whether multiple local currencies in the storefront, B2B terms in foreign currency, or a growing export business — the plugin adds a reliable ECB connection to Shopware.

Install it, verify EUR as the default currency, enable the currencies you need, and run a first update. Within minutes, your shop works with rates you can trace, control, and fine-tune with a buffer when required. Manual conversion factors become daily prices that build trust — worldwide, automatically, and on an official basis.

FAQ

Compatibility

Our extension is generally compatible with all our own extensions, provided that the respective functionalities do not conflict with each other.
For third-party extensions, including Shopware’s premium extensions, we cannot guarantee unrestricted compatibility. Should any issues arise in this context, our support team will be happy to assist you.
Naturally, when new Shopware versions are released, we ensure that our extension is made compatible with them in a timely manner.
Please note that our statements refer to the Shopware Community Edition with the standard responsive theme.

Support

Do you need assistance? Our support team is at your disposal in both German and English.

To process your request as quickly as possible, please ensure that:

• The latest version of our extension, compatible with your Shopware version, is installed
• You have a valid rental or subscription license
• The issue also occurs in the Shopware standard theme and with all third-party extensions deactivated
• No changes have been made by you or third parties to the plugin code
• You have studied the manual in advance, as it already contains many helpful pieces of information

In most cases, it is necessary for us to have unrestricted access to your shop’s administration in order to analyze and fix the problem. Additionally, it may be required for you to provide us with FTP or ideally SSH credentials for your server. Please note that setting up and later removing these accesses is your responsibility.

For a smooth troubleshooting process, we recommend conducting support in a staging or development environment. This allows issues to be reproduced under controlled conditions without affecting your live shop.

To submit a support request, please use your Shopware account or our support portal at https://support.netinventors.de.

Please note:
For paid extensions, we offer free support.
For free extensions, we are also happy to assist you, but we will charge for the effort separately.

Trial Version

Of course, you can test all our extensions free of charge for 30 days.
Use this time to familiarize yourself thoroughly with the functions before making a decision.
If you require advice, just contact our support at https://support.netinventors.de.

Features

We generally develop new features based on the latest available Shopware version.
The functions and highlights listed in our product descriptions therefore always refer to the newest Shopware feature version available at the time of release.

Custom Development

Do you need an extension tailored exactly to your requirements?
We are happy to customize existing extensions or develop a completely new plugin according to your specifications.
Just get in touch with us and let us know how we can assist you.

Transparency and Ongoing Development

We place great value on open and transparent communication. Through regular updates and ongoing development, we ensure that our extensions are always up-to-date. Your feedback is particularly important to us—it helps us better tailor our products to your needs.
If you are satisfied with our extension, we would also greatly appreciate a review—it helps other users with their purchasing decisions.

Disclaimer

Despite careful testing and continuous development of our extensions, we do not guarantee their error-free operation in all conceivable system environments. We are not liable for damages resulting from the use of our products, unless these are based on intentional or grossly negligent behavior on our part. Please check before use and when updating that all requirements in your system environment are met.

Links

• Manual
• Support
• Net Inventors GmbH