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AussieHolden
Wed 9th Jan '08, 7:03am
I am going to purchase VBulletin soon but you don't cover my currency which i find odd how am i meant to know how much it will cost me in AUS Australian Dollars ?

I am currently running SMF and would like to know if it will be easy to convert my members over to VBulletin ?

Jobe1986
Wed 9th Jan '08, 7:18am
Firstly, if you use paypal or any of the credit card options, your payment gateway (paypal or credit card company) will conver the currency for you. As for how much itll cost, you will have to check a local currency exchange.

Secondly SMF does convert to vBulletin easily, but the user passwords dont so all the users will have to use the password reset feature to have their apssword reset.

RichM
Wed 9th Jan '08, 7:42am
As briefly mentioned above, Paypal will do any currency conversions for you. You do not need to worry about this, as it's all done automatically. I live in the UK, and I buy items listed in USD on a regular basis. It's exactly the same as buying a product or service from a company in my own country.

Obviously, exchange rates change all the time. Whilst this does not affect the purchase process, it will affect the amount you pay to some extent. Due to this, I suggest using www.xe.com (http://www.xe.com) to work out exactly how much you will be paying. I usually use it whenever I buy a product or service which isn't listed in my own currency. (£)

Hope that helps. :)

- Rich

AussieHolden
Wed 9th Jan '08, 9:33am
Secondly SMF does convert to vBulletin easily, but the user passwords dont so all the users will have to use the password reset feature to have their apssword reset.

That's sounding very good so far. Is there a read-up in this for me so I can see what will be involved to do the data-base conversion.

double_d
Thu 10th Jan '08, 3:28am
heya
im in australia also
and purchased vb
last week and it cost me around the $180 mark
i used paypal it was very easy
and i also converted from smf to vb
and that was surprisingly very easy also
the only thing i am finding hard is knowing when people have reset there password
and when i sent my mass email out a lot didnt get there
but after a couple of hours i was ready to chuck it in
but i realised i was very impatient and look at instructions a little harder
and things fell into place
and now i am getting to like vb a lot

daniel d

AussieHolden
Thu 10th Jan '08, 4:40am
$180.00 was that in US or AUS I worked it out to be $238.00AUS but I also added the tool option and I'm not sure if I need that or not.

I'm also going to need a Auto skin/template/theme anyone one of any good one out there.

double_d
Thu 10th Jan '08, 5:38am
$160 us was at the time around $180 australian
there are a heap of skins around

daniel d

chaselafon
Thu 10th Jan '08, 3:25pm
You don't need the tool option.