Tutorial: Adding a currency to a store with REST API

In this tutorial, you add a new currency to HCL Commerce for use in your organization's asset stores and an extended sites store.

If you want to add a new currency to a store, you must complete the following high-level tasks using the REST API:
  1. Add the data for identifying the currency to your programming environment database.
  2. Define how the currency is to be formatted and displayed in your customer-facing storefront.
  3. Define search facets for the currency so that storefront users can filter by prices in the currency.
  4. Configure your programming environment stores (asset and customer-facing stores) within Management Center to support the display of prices in the new currency.
  5. (Optional) Define how prices are to be converted to the new currency. Alternatively, you can define specific prices in the currency for products.
  6. (Optional) Update your store products to include specific prices for the products in the currency. Alternatively, you can define how prices can be converted to the new currency.
  7. Add the language to your Runtime environment.

Learning objectives

After completing this tutorial, you should be able to do the following tasks:
  • Adding currency support to stores
  • Using Administrative REST API
  • Using the Management Center Store Management tool to select the supported currencies for a store.

Skill level

This tutorial is intended for HCL Commerce developers who are responsible for customizing the store and store globalization. To complete this tutorial, ensure that you are familiar with the following terms and concepts:
  • ISO currency standards
  • REST API
  • JSON