# Base Currency Within Umbraco Commerce we have support for showing analytics reports, including summaries of sales figures. At the same time, Umbraco Commerce also supports orders being placed in multiple currencies. These pose a problem of how to display a succinct sales figure when the orders are placed in multiple currencies. The answer to this is the store's **Base Currency**. When you configure a store you need to assign a base currency to it. This currency is there to identify which currency the store should use as its basis for reports and sales figures. This will be used regardless of whatever currency the order was placed in. When a store has a base currency configured, any order placed will track the price of the order in the customer's chosen currency. It will also track the current exchange rate between that currency and the store's base currency. Whenever a report is run the order total prices will be converted using this exchange rate. This means that they can all be automatically presented in the single base currency of the store. ## Currency Exchange Rate Services Umbraco Commerce uses an `ICurrencyExchangeRateService` to retrieve the most up-to-date rate and track the current exchange rate. For more details on configuring an exchange rate service, see the [Currency Exchange Rate Service Providers](/umbraco-commerce/key-concepts/currency-exchange-rate-service-providers.md) article. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-commerce/key-concepts/base-currency.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.