Add Foreign Currency Prices to Inventory and Service Items

To set up your company to conduct business in a foreign currency

Step 1: Add exchange gain/loss account for foreign currencies

Step 2: Set up foreign currencies

Step 3: Add foreign currency bank accounts

Step 4: Choose linked accounts for foreign currency transactions

Step 5: Set method of pricing inventory and service items

Step 6: Add foreign prices to  inventory and service items

Step 7: Add foreign vendors

Step 8: Add foreign customers

If you chose to use the exchange rate to calculate foreign prices in step 5, skip this step and go to step 7.

To add prices in foreign currencies to Inventory and Services Items:

  1. In the Home window, click the Inventory and Services icon.
  2. All of your inventory and service items automatically use the exchange rate to calculate prices in new currencies. Open the record of an item for which you want to add a fixed price.
  3. Click the Pricing tab and select the currency from the list.
  4. You can set a price for any (or all) of the price lists. To change a price:
  1. Change the Pricing Method to Fixed Price.
  2. Enter a price.
  1. Close the item record. Repeat steps 2-4 for all the items for you which you want to set a fixed price in a foreign currency.

Notes: If you buy an item from a foreign vendor, you should consider whether to add import duties to the item record.