[thelist] Multicurrency

Glen Burnett glen at inception.co.nz
Mon Jan 12 16:53:10 CST 2004


 
> So what happens the day they decide not to?

Yeah, we thought about that at the time and just decided to log all the
updates and setup auto emails to the client and myself everytime the rates
are updated or if the update fails.  

If the BNZ ever pulled the service then the rates would have to be manually
updated through the Content Management System while we found another
service.

Because the rates are in xml in wouldn't take much of a code change to hook
up a web service.  And, the xml doc is only used to update the Currency
table in the database so the site always talks to the db and does not rely
on the xml doc to function correctly.

Cheers,

Glen




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[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of john at johnallsopp.co.uk
Sent: Tuesday, 13 January 2004 9:26 a.m.
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Subject: RE: [thelist] Multicurrency

> The bank we use lets us charge foreign currency amounts in 10 
> different currencies to a customer credit card and they make available 
> their daily rates as an xml document on their website for free.  Check 
> out http://www.bnz.co.nz/xml/currencySelect.xml

Thanks Glen, I'll look into that. It sounds a little dicey though .. if it's
free I guess they've not guaranteed to you they'll carry on doing it.
So what happens the day they decide not to? Call me a cynic ..

The same is true of Web Services, but at least there's more than one site
offering the facility, and since you've already built the web services
infrastructure it should be easy to switch to another supplier.

Am I missing anything?

Cheers
J


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