To change a sales order's currency:You can change the currency for a sales order on the order's Body screen. Changing an order's currency changes the currency in which prices display on the order, as well as the currency that prints on customer documents.
If a customer primarily uses a currency other than your system's base currency, you can designate a new base currency for the customer in Customer Pricing/Printing, so you do not need to change the currency displayed for individual orders.
To change a sales order's currency:
Select the $ hot key, which displays in the upper-right corner of the screen.
In the Currency field, select a new currency for the order.
The Exchange Rate field automatically displays the most recent exchange rate entered in Exchange Rate Maintenance. You can enter a new exchange rate now if you need to.
In the Recalculate field, specify Base or Foreign, depending on whether you want to change the pricing that posts to your General Ledger, or merely change the currency in which prices display on the order and its documents.
Base — Select Base if you want to use the numeric digits currently displayed, but convert them to a new currency. For example, you would select this option if you wanted to convert $10.00 U.S. to $10.00 Canada. This option affects the actual pricing on the order, and the amounts that post to your company's General Ledger, because a numeric value in one currency almost never matches that same numeric value in another currency.
Foreign — Select Foreign if you want to maintain the same order pricing that would otherwise be in effect, but you want to display pricing in a different currency. For example, you would select this option if you had a customer who wanted prices to display in a different currency on their order documents.
Press Esc to save your changes and return to the sales order's Body screen. Order pricing now displays in the currency you selected, as denoted by the currency indicator in the upper-right corner next to the $ hot key.
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