---
title: "Money & currencies — Shops for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Every amount is an exact money-for-laravel Money — casts and decimal(38,0) columns, currency safety, and orders that remember their own currency."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/shops-for-laravel/money
language: en
---

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# Money & currencies

Every amount in shops is a money-for-laravel Money: minor units as an exact integer string in a registered currency with its real exponent (JPY 0, EUR 2, BHD 3). Shops ships no money primitive of its own — coupons and credits speak the same type, so nothing is converted between packages:

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\Money\Money;

$price = Money::ofMinor(1000, 'EUR');                      // 10.00 EUR
$same  = Money::ofMajor('10.00', 'EUR');                   // from a decimal string
$total = Money::sum([$price, Money::ofMinor(500, 'EUR')]); // 15.00 EUR

$price->minor();              // "1000" (string — exact past int64)
$price->currency()->code;     // "EUR"
(string) $price;              // "10.00 EUR"
```

## Casts and columns

| Model | Attribute | Cast / column |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ProductVariant, CartItem, Orders\\Item | `price` | AsMoney::currencyColumn('currency') — decimal(38,0) + currency code |
| Order | `currency` | AsCurrency — snapshotted on insert |
| Order | `discount, store_credit_applied` | AsMoney::currencyColumn('currency') — nullable |
| Cart | `currency` | AsCurrency |
| Shop | `currency` | raw nullable ISO code — Shop::currency() resolves it |

- The price cast writes the row’s currency column from the Money. It refuses to re-denominate a column that already holds another code, so set currency before price in fill() or update() arrays when changing a variant’s currency.
- decimal(38,0) is exact to 38 digits on pgsql and MySQL — orderBy, sum and where compare numerically. On SQLite the cast refuses amounts beyond int64.
- tax\_rates.rate stays an unsigned integer of basis points, not money.

```php
// decimal(38,0) compares numerically on pgsql/MySQL — bind minor() strings, never (int):
ProductVariant::query()
    ->where('price', '>=', $minimum->minor())
    ->orderBy('price')
    ->get();
```

## Currency safety

Mixing currencies throws money’s CurrencyMismatch — including adding a variant to a cart or order in another currency:

```php
$cart = Cart::create(['currency' => 'EUR']);
Shops::cart($cart)->add($usdVariant);
// throws RoundlyConsulting\Money\Exceptions\CurrencyMismatch — the cart is unchanged
```

## Order currency snapshot

An order stores its own currency, set on insert when none was given: the cart’s at place-order, else its shop’s (its shop\_id or the bound CurrentShop), else pricing.default\_currency. Pricing and AddOrderItemAction use the order’s currency, never the config — changing SHOPS\_DEFAULT\_CURRENCY does not re-denominate placed orders.

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