Euro Support

Euro support is available, in that bills, receipts and invoices will printout the 'Euro equivalent' of the balance outstanding and payment routines will show both currency's. If you have already converted to the Euro then you can also print the old base currency equivalent.

To enable support you need to:

• Use Gen Apps -> Params -> Fields -> VAT option 5
  to enter the conversion from your currency to the Euro.

  Currency	Inverse rate Pre Conversion	Rate Post Conversion
  Irish Pounds	1.269738	0.787564
  Sterling	1.64035	0.609625

• Use Gen Apps -> Params -> Fields -> Options option 28
  to switch on the printing of the extra line. This will also enable the payment routines to handle multiple currencies.

• Make sure your hardware supports the Euro and Pound Symbols.

If you have already converted over to the Euro the system does need to be told what the old currency was, to do this add an entry to params.txt called Euro_Unit and set it to the description you would like printed e.g. Euro_Unit=Punt or Euro_Unit=Sterling etc.

There is a Conversion utility to convert existing figures over to the Euro.

Currency Options on Bills/Receipts

If you are wanting to have Euro support on the 'standard' receipt then you must use the definition file 'receipt.def'.

Reserved Words:
Standard Receipt	EPAID	Total Paid in Euro's
	ETOTAL	Total Outstanding in Euro's
Fee Notes	EURO	Total Outstanding in Euro's
bill.bot	EUROVAL	Total Outstanding in Euro's

Once you have converted over to the Euro then these reserved words will work in reverse e.g. &EURO will show the amount in the old base currency.

Currency Options on Payment Routines

If you have the 'Show Currency Conversion' option ON, the payment routines will be displayed slightly differently:

                                Euro
                                    
 Current balance is             34.44   27.12
                                            
 Amount to pay                  34.44   27.12
                                                
Amount being paid (£) [27.12] .....

                                Punt

 Current balance is             27.12   34.44
                                             
 Amount to pay                  27.12   34.44
                                             
Amount being paid (€) [34.44] .......

The system will use Colour Event 175 to show any converted currency amounts, event 176 is used for the 'Base Currency'.

There may be times during the transition where the client wants to pay in the 'other' currency, this can be done assuming your system supports the Euro Symbol (€).

So if the amount being paid was €15.50 and the client offered you £13.00, you would enter £13 (include the £ symbol) as the amount tendered, the system will show you:

                                Punt

 Current balance is             12.21   15.50
                                             
 Amount actually paid           12.21   15.50
 Change to be given              0.80    1.01

Enter payment reference .................

The £ will be converted to Euro's (€16.51) and the change calculated.

With TreeView payments, the system will show the converted currency in brackets, the system will print the current base currency symbol to remind you what currency you are using. Some examples

 -SCOTTIE - D     CANINE     MA Collie X                09.2001     15.50    78
 +sasha           Feline     F  Domestic                09.2001     11.67    34

 2 Animal(s): TOTAL outstanding is (€)  27.17

The payment line:

Bal : € 27.17 ( 21.40)     Last billed : € 2.56

Allocated amount line:

Bal : € 27.17    Being Paid : € 25.00    Allocated : € 11.67   Diff : € 13.33