Can I use USD for my France-based online store?

Topic summary

A France-based Shopify store owner plans to primarily sell to US customers and wants to know if they can display prices in USD instead of EUR.

Key Question:
Can the currency automatically change based on customer location (USD for US visitors, EUR for European visitors)?

Recommended Solution:

  • Add a country/currency selector to the store theme
  • Configure available countries and regions in Shopify Payments settings
  • Customers can then choose their preferred country/region from a dropdown menu
  • The local currency displays automatically next to each country option

Implementation:
Shopify provides official documentation on adding currency selectors to themes for multi-currency support. An example store demonstrating this currency localization feature was shared as reference.

This approach allows flexible currency display based on customer selection rather than being locked into a single currency.

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Hello,

I have opened my Shopify store in France but I will mainly sell in the US.

Can I just have the website in USD?

Or how does it work? Can the currency change based on the localization of the customer?

So USD if this is United States and € if this is Europe?

Thanks.

C.

Hi @coco44 ,

This is Victor from PageFly - Landing Page Builder App. I would love to give you my recommendation.

To allow your customers to select the currency based on their location, you should add a country selector to your theme. Your customers can then choose their country or region from a dropdown list of countries and regions that you’ve added in your Shopify Payments settings.

Here’s a store I found that has currency localization, I think this may be what you’re looking for.

The local currency is also displayed in the dropdown list beside each country or region. You can check this guide from Shopify to learn how to add a country selector to your theme.

I hope you will find my answer helpful!

Warm regards,

Victor | PageFly