Money and pricing
Currency conversion
Last updated by The PanelCompare editorial team
Why does currency conversion matter to a buyer?
Multi-currency display is a standard panel-software feature — currency converters that localise pricing by user location ship as a headline capability (SmartPanel listing, codecanyon.net, verified 2026-09-11) — and the conversion rate is set by the operator rather than by a market feed. That means a lira, rupee or real price can carry a spread on top of the dollar catalogue that no column discloses. Turkish panels almost always price in lira, and Brazilian ones in reais (PanelCompare domain research, 2026-09-06).
The API makes the problem tractable and also makes it easy to miss. Both the balance and status responses return a currency field, so a client always knows which unit it is reading — but a price index that ignores that field and stores every rate as a number will silently mix currencies into one median. Normalising to a single currency with the conversion date recorded is the only comparison that survives a scrutinised republication.
How does currency conversion show up in a price list?
The account currency is chosen at signup or in account settings, and the entire catalogue re-renders in it. The rate column changes; the service IDs do not.
Two consequences are worth checking. A deposit made in one currency and spent in another crosses the panel’s conversion twice, and a catalogue quoted in a volatile currency can appear to reprice weekly when nothing about the underlying dollar cost has moved.
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Terminology in this market is set by the panels that use it, and it moves. If a panel uses currency conversion to mean something other than what is written here, send us the listing and we will either correct the definition or record the variant. The process is on the about page.