Exchange Rate Screens for Travel Agencies That Sell Holiday Money
A travel agency that sells holiday money has two customers for its rates: the one booking the trip, who wants to know what their budget is worth, and the one passing the window. A rates screen serves both, and updates itself every morning.
Your customer is already at the desk planning a budget, so showing the rates for your destinations turns “how much is that in dollars?” into a sale. easyCMS puts them in the window, at the desk and on your website, updated every morning. Two screens cost 314€, once.
The advantages
Your destinations’ currencies
With flags, names and the unit (100 JPY). Eight on the desk screen, twenty in the window.
We buy and We sell
The buy column shows what customers get back for unused currency after the trip.
A ticker under your offers
One scrolling line of rates on a thin screen or LED strip, so your main screen keeps the destination offers.
A spotlight for this week
One currency at a time, filling the screen, for the destination you are promoting.
Rates at set times
A screen can switch to the rates board for the morning rush and back to your offers for the rest of the day.
On your website
One switch, and the customer planning a trip at home sees what you charge.
Every branch, one account
Branches share one rates table or keep one each.
Start from the currency rate ticker, the spotlight or the other exchange rate board templates.
How the rates are worked out
Each working day the European Central Bank and other central banks publish reference rates for about 160 currencies, and easyCMS checks every hour. For each Automatic currency, Studio takes your buy margin off for We buy and adds your sell margin for We sell, rounding buy down and sell up. A Locked currency keeps the rates you type, for agencies priced by a wholesale supplier. Try your margins first with the free exchange rate margin calculator.
Selling currency needs a licence
Many agencies sell as an agent of a licensed provider, under its rates and name. Not legal advice.
France
A changeur manuel needs the ACPR’s authorisation. France guide.
Spain
The Banco de España authorises exchange establishments. Spain guide.
United Kingdom
A bureau de change registers with HMRC as a money service business. UK guide.
Display rules
What the board shows has rules of its own: see the rules by country.
What it costs
A window screen and a desk screen:
| Line | Cost |
|---|---|
| easyCMS account, up to 5 displays, includes 1 licence | 49 EUR one-time |
| 1 × extra licence at 66 EUR, bought in the same order | 66 EUR one-time |
| Currency exchange add-on: rate tables and boards, for the whole account | 199 EUR one-time |
| Software total, paid once | 314 EUR |
The add-on covers everything on this page, with no monthly fee. For players, an easyCMS Android player is 499€ with its licence, Windows software is free, and LG webOS and Samsung Tizen screens have one built in, with a 129€ licence each. See the pricing page.
What it will not do
- Live market rates. The automatic rates are daily reference rates; lock yours to follow a supplier during the day.
- Take currency orders or payments.
- Import rates from a supplier’s system. There is no feed from a wholesaler yet.
For exchange offices, see exchange rate board software.