WHMCS Currency Exchange update - working?

[MartinD]

Anyone else seeing problems with this?

Tried on a few different versions and it's just failing every time... if you're running multiple currencies you might want to check it!

 

[rds100]

Not working. Didn't bother to open a ticket with WHMCS, i think it's an old bug and has been broken since sometime in August.

 

[concerto49]

It's been dead for a while. I read somewhere that they blame the other party for changing the API and will fix it in 5.3.

 

[MartinD]

Well I've only just seen the issues now since the last update - previous to that it was working fine... in 5.1.x anyway

 

[rds100]

@MartinD nope it wasn't working before, just not telling you it wasn't working I.e. now it says "update of currency exchange rate failed" and before it used to say "updated", but didn't really update.

 

[MartinD]

@MartinD nope it wasn't working before, just not telling you it wasn't working I.e. now it says "update of currency exchange rate failed" and before it used to say "updated", but didn't really update.

Well shit. Thanks, I guess.

 

[notFound]

Yeah, it's broken. I wish they'd fix it.

 

[GIANT_CRAB]

Google has a fucking calculator for this https://www.google.com/ig/calculator?hl=en&q=100USD=?SGD

If WHMCS don't want Google, there's still Yahoo.

Yet they rely on some unreliable 3rd party for exchange?

In my opinion, WHMCS is always full of bullshit.

Completely nonsensical coding.

If one API failed, they could have some form of fail-over.

Instead, no, they shit on you and then laugh.

After laughing, they swim in their pool of money and then continue laughing.

 

[rds100]

Well, the "unreliable third party" is the European Central Bank (http://www.ecb.int) i think.

But why they try to pull the data from a third party is beyound me. They should have made it to be pulled from www.whmcs.com for instance (or some other server they control), and then if the format or URL on the ECB website changes - they (whmcs only have to update the script on their own server.

 

[MartinD]

Or, ya know, the main global one... xe.com.

 

[GIANT_CRAB]

Well, the "unreliable third party" is the European Central Bank (http://www.ecb.int) i think.

But why they try to pull the data from a third party is beyound me. They should have made it to be pulled from www.whmcs.com for instance (or some other server they control), and then if the format or URL on the ECB website changes - they (whmcs only have to update the script on their own server.

Laziness, incompetence (obviously from the 6 million bugs) and for maximum profit (they need to save their server resources).