Multi-currency accounts?

[Fasguy]

Hi, loving WYGIWYH so far, it fits my needs pretty much perfectly.

That being said, I have hit a small snag.
With one of my accounts, I make transactions in multiple different currencies, but in WYGIWYH I can only set one currency per account.
Right now I have solved this by just creating multiple accounts like "<Account Name> (EUR)", "<Account Name> (USD)", etc.
Is this the "intended" way to solve this issue or am I missing some feature to allow multiple currencies on a single account?

[cookesan]

I would model those as separate accounts, one per currency.

The app has multi-currency support, but the current Account model has a single main currency field. It also has exchange_currency, but that is described in the model as the default currency for exchange calculations, not as a second balance currency inside the same account.

So a real bank account with EUR and USD pockets would map more cleanly to something like:

Bank name - EUR
Bank name - USD

Then use the same group/name convention to keep them visually related.

[eitchtee]

Glad you're enjoying the app @Fasguy!

@cookesan is spot on on how to model multi-currency accounts! Thanks for the answer by the way.

The reasoning behind this is to simplify calculations and data ingestion, if each account could hold infinite currencies, it would be visual hell to display their totals for example, and you'd have to pick a currency every time you create a new transaction. Most banks I know of will let you know the total in each currency, so, short of the name, there's not much difference from real life..