The 'New 4.0.7' release information states:
  
Thing is, we had the same link that used 'Currency Source' which in return updated this automatically.
 
My fear is that since this site is NEW (not even a designed site) owned by I'm assuming Viart, how confident can we be that this will be updated like it's supposed to be?
 
Why don't we use another service that's been around for a long time?

The site is not well designed, but as I look at the rates this are correct (now).
 
The max difference is not more than 0,5% - to the official national bank rates.
 
I think there is a more complex problem about rates:
If You work X currency and want to accep payment in Y, You may not just wanna gate a "middle rate", but have an option to add some % to cover conversation costs.
 
Example:
Product is 188 HUF
Rate in Viart is 188.354835 HUF = 1 USD
But If I accept cards and they pay in USD, I'll need to pay for conversation and finally may get 185 HUF.
 
Could be great to have an option to use an additional % for currency to cover the costs?

First of all, plese note that old Currency Source is not working for a long time. We made a research in this area and couldn't find a suitable solution for our customers - all such exchange rates feeds are paid, for example one site offered exhange rates from $540 to $3240 and prices on other sites are quite the same.
 
That's why we've developed and integrated absolutely a new solution called Float Rates based on the site https://www.floatrates.com/ which you can use now absolutely free.
 
Float Rates generates average exchange rates from different national banks and official institutions so this solution is absolutely reliable to use.

To Epox1
 
That's quite easy to arrange, just open 'admin/admin_floatrates.php' script and replace this line:
$sql .= " exchange_rate=" . $db->tosql($feeds_currencies[$currency_code], NUMBER);
 
with this one to add 1% to all currency exchange rates:
$sql .= " exchange_rate=" . $db->tosql($feeds_currencies[$currency_code]*1.01, NUMBER);
 
to add 0.5% this line would look like this:
$sql .= " exchange_rate=" . $db->tosql($feeds_currencies[$currency_code]*1.005, NUMBER);
 
Regards,
ViArt Team

Vera,
 
Thank you for the information. Right now, when I go (in 4.0.6) and update my rates, it says updated successfully, which is from Currency Source.
 
I'm indeed updating to 4.0.7 shortly, but was just shocked at the change because mine works when I click update. However, if I go to their site, it doesn't work. So I'm assuming that just as you noted, they're going to be down shortly?

You probably never looked at the date when the last currency feed from Currency Source was updated which was many months ago.
 
Regards,
ViArt Team

Thank you Vera. If these rates weren't updating correctly, why didn't we get notified by someone that the rates weren't pulling correctly?
 
Either way... no, I don't want to use last year's rates. Thanks. :-P

Vera, take a look at other services.
 
Floatrates, to me does not look reliable.

We can say it again that FloatRates.com is a new source and now it's fully integrated with Viart Shop.
 
We made a very deep research and our main purpose was to find a free currency feeds service instead of a very expensive paid services which automatically increases the site license cost and we didn't want to leave our customers without currency exchnage rates much longer so now you have FloatRates to get exchange rates absolutely free.
 
Ibn Saeed, now you have very nice and reiable solution and it's up to you use it or probably switch to a different paid service.
 
Regards,
Viart Team
 

As for now, I'm okay with giving the 'FloatRates' a shot. If it works, it works. Simple as that.
 
I appreciate Viart's work in getting the new feed source for us, but I guess some more communication with the users would be helpful. We invest money into many of the new features that are released with each new release as many of them have been paid for by the users. To me, this makes this a very community driven product.
 
If the current feed was not correct, why would Viart NOT tell us for the last year that hey, your currency exchange rates are wrong...
 
For the future, new things are GREAT!! Finding out that exchange rates for the last year have been wrong, AFTER the fact is wrong.
 
Either way, I look forward to using the new rates, and so far so good. Keep up the good work with the new releases and new features that are coming out