Pinning a different fixed price per country for one product

Automatic currency conversion is arithmetically fair but commercially blind: one converted price may profit in Egypt and lose in Saudi Arabia because of shipping, customs, and local competition. The cross-border merchant needs to price each market deliberately, setting a competitive Egyptian price and a Gulf price that protects the margin for the same product, without the Gulf price drifting up and down with every daily rate move.

From the pricing tab of the product page the merchant fills the prices-by-country field with a fixed price per country, and that price wins over automatic conversion because it is a deliberate commercial decision. When the product is shown to a visitor from a country with a pinned price, the pinned price appears; otherwise the base price converts automatically by location. Pinned prices also appear in the dashboard product details view for review, and resolution follows the same priority in display, cart, and checkout.

In practice, cost each market separately: the product price with shipping and fees plus your target margin, then pin the resulting price per country. Start with the top Gulf-selling products because their financial impact is largest, and note down the reasoning behind each price in your internal notes to recall the logic at review time. Test the display from every target country to confirm the right pinned price shows.

Among the limits worth knowing, a pinned price is a fixed number needing periodic review as costs and rates move, since it never auto-updates. A base-currency change does not recalculate pinned prices, and countries without a pinned price stay on moving automatic conversion.