Sources

Currency Assistant uses the rates published by the European Central Bank, the Bank of Canada, the International Monetary Fund, and the Bank of Italy to automatically update exchange rates over the Internet.

To learn more about each source, choose File > Currencies to open the Currencies window, press the Update Rates button in the toolbar, and choose Sources from the pop-up menu. Select a source in the Source pop-up menu to view a list of the currencies whose rates can be updated from the source and use the buttons below the list to visit the source's web site and show the latest rates published by the source.

By default, Currency Assistant updates rates using the exchange rates published by the Bank of Italy. To use a different source to update a currency's rate, choose File > Currencies, select the currency in the list, click the abbreviation in the Update column and choose the new source from the pop-up menu.

You can also quickly edit multiple currencies: select the currencies by Control-clicking or Shift-clicking them in the list, then click the Get Info button in the toolbar. Choose the desired source from the Update pop-up menu (dashed sources allow you to update rates just for some of the selected currencies) and click OK.

When rates are temporarily unavailable on the source you selected in the Update column, you can have Currency Assistant automatically look for them on the other web sites by selecting the "Try other sources if rate is not available on favorite web site" checkbox in the Rates Update pane of the Currencies window. You can specify the order in which Currency Assistant tries the other sources by dragging them in the list associated to the checkbox.

If you want to view or search the currencies listed by a particular source, choose the corresponding option from the Search field pop-up menu in the Currencies window toolbar.