18.08. Tender currencies

You will have noticed that responses from suppliers can be received in any currency in an mSupply tender. For comparison with other tender lines, all lines are converted to the home currency of the datafile using a rate that is defined by the user. These rates are stored and managed separately for each tender so that historical records of the rates used in any particular tender are retained permananetly. The rates used for currency conversion throughout mSupply will change over time to keep up with fluctuations but any such changes will not affect tenders and their historical records.

The conversion rates used for each currency in a tender are shown and managed on the Currencies tab, which looks like this: