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# Creating Multi-Currency Orders from Account/Contact

> Create an Order in a specific currency by setting the currency on the source Account or Contact before you click Create Order.

### How Account/Contact Currency Drives Order Currency

In a multi-currency org, every record that holds an amount has a standard `CurrencyIsoCode` field. When you create an Order from an Account or Contact, fusionCore copies that record's currency onto the new Order automatically.

This means you do not pick a currency while creating the Order. You set the currency on the Account or Contact first, and the Order inherits it.

<Note>
  A Product and an Order only transact together when they share the same currency. Before creating Orders in a given currency, make sure you have Products and Payment Types set up in that currency. See [Defining Business Unit Currency](/end-user-guides/accounting/multi-currency/defining-business-unit-currency) and [Supported Currencies on Payment Type](/end-user-guides/accounting/multi-currency/supported-currencies-on-payment-type).
</Note>

### Before You Start

* Multi-currency must already be enabled in your org. See [Enabling Multi-currency](/end-user-guides/accounting/multi-currency/enabling-multi-currency).
* The currency you want to use must be active in **Setup > Manage Currencies**.

### Set the Currency and Create the Order

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the Account or Contact">
    In the App Launcher, type **Account** and click **Accounts**, or type **Contact** and click **Contacts**. Open the record you want to create the Order from.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set the record currency">
    On the record, set the **Account Currency** or **Contact Currency** field to the currency you want the Order to use, then save.

    <Frame caption="Setting the currency on an Account record">
      <img src="https://mintcdn.com/fusionspan/dgaf-BkijdfqhSNr/images/end-user-guides/4858478621/image-20250502-152256.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=dgaf-BkijdfqhSNr&q=85&s=063b6ab547f6bc641076d5eef5225a38" alt="Account record showing the Account Currency field being set" width="857" height="409" data-path="images/end-user-guides/4858478621/image-20250502-152256.png" />
    </Frame>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Create the Order">
    Click **Create Order** at the top right of the record page. The Order is created in the currency you set on the Account or Contact.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Limitations and Common Pitfalls

* **The currency is inherited silently — you cannot pick it during Order creation.** The **Create Order** action takes the currency straight from the Account or Contact. If the source record has the wrong currency, the Order is created in the wrong currency. Confirm the **Account Currency** / **Contact Currency** value before you click **Create Order**.
* **The currency must be active in your org.** If the currency on the Account or Contact has not been activated and rated in **Setup > Manage Currencies**, currency conversion will fail. Activate and set a conversion rate for every currency you transact in before creating Orders.
* **Products and Payment Types must exist in the Order's currency.** An Order only transacts with Products and Payment Types in the same currency. If you create an Order in a currency that has no matching Products, you will have nothing to add to it.

<Warning>
  **Mixed-currency renewals consolidate into one Order.** If the same customer has Purchase Activities in different currencies, today they renew into a single Order rather than one Order per currency. This is a known open issue (targeted for a future release) and is not yet fixed in the shipped code.
</Warning>