How to exchange Magento 2 currency in a few steps?

Learn how to exchange Magento 2 currency with the following steps in this blog.

In core Magento, it has charges from base currency to other currencies. It is quite simple to exchange currency from the base. However, if you need to exchange currency from current currency to base or other currencies.  Core Magento doesn’t support this function. In this tutorial, we will do it by the following steps:

1. Exchange currency from base to other currency
2. Exchange currency from another currency to base currency
3. Exchange currency from a currency to a currency

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Exchange the Magento 2 currency

Exchange currency from base to other

$priceConverted = $this->_storeManager->getStore()->getBaseCurrency()->convert($price

,$toCurrency);

With $this->_storeManager is Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface

Exchange currency from A currency to base currency

$rateToBase = $this->_currencyFactory->create()->load($fromCurrency)->getAnyRate($this->_storeManager->getStore()->getBaseCurrency()->getCode());

$priceConverted = $price * $rateToBase;

With $this->_currencyFactory is \Magento\Directory\Model\CurrencyFactory

Exchange currency from a currency to a currency

public function currencyConvert($amount, $fromCurrency = null, $toCurrency = null)

{


  if(!$fromCurrency){

      $fromCurrency = $this->_storeManager->getStore()->getBaseCurrency();


  }


  if(!$toCurrency){



      $toCurrency = $this->_storeManager->getStore()->getCurrentCurrency();


  }

  if (is_string($fromCurrency)) {

      $rateToBase = $this->_currencyFactory->create()->load($fromCurrency)->getAnyRate($this->_storeManager->getStore()->getBaseCurrency()->getCode());


  } elseif ($fromCurrency instanceof \Magento\Directory\Model\Currency) {


      $rateToBase = $fromCurrency->getAnyRate($this->_storeManager->getStore()->getBaseCurrency()->getCode());


  }


  $rateFromBase = $this->_storeManager->getStore()->getBaseCurrency()->getRate($toCurrency);


  if($rateToBase && $rateFromBase){

      $amount = $amount * $rateToBase * $rateFromBase;


  } else {



      throw new InputException(__('Please correct the target currency.'));


  }


  return $amount;

}

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