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🔌 Provider Configuration

Each currency pair gets its rates from one or more routes: a central bank that quotes the pair directly, or a chain of conversions. Here you see and change the routes of the pair you are viewing.

Provider Configuration

🔓 How to Access

On the pair's detail page, click Providers (🔧) in the toolbar, next to Sync. The Edit Pair Providers window opens.

📋 What You See

Under Conversion Routes, each row is a route, in priority order:

  • the currencies, with the provider of each step between them — hover a provider's icon for its name and description;
  • the priority badge: #1 is used first;
  • ⚠️ when a provider has a data warning, such as the SNB's monthly rates;
  • 🗑️ to remove the route.

🔧 Changing Providers

  1. Click Add conversion route and pick a route under Direct conversion (1 step) or Chain conversion. Type in the search box to filter by provider, currency or country.
  2. Drag the rows to set their priority (on a phone, use the up and down arrows).
  3. Click Save Configuration: the next sync uses the new routes.
🔗 Also create intermediate pairs — when you pick a chain route

Tick it to save each step of the chain as a pair of its own, with its provider, so that you can sync and view it on its own.

✍️ No route left — when you remove them all

The pair becomes manual: Sync is disabled, and you enter the rates yourself in the Data Editor.

🔢 Priority & Fallback

A sync tries the routes from the top. If one fails — for example, its central bank does not answer — it moves on to the next; the pair fails only when every route does. With EUR/USD set to #1 ECB and #2 FED, a sync that cannot reach the ECB uses the FED rate instead.

  • ➕ Adding a Pair — Full route discovery (direct + chain routes)
  • 🔄 Synchronization — How sync uses the configured providers
  • 🔌 FX Providers — User guide and details on each provider (ECB, FED, BOE, SNB)
  • 🧮 For developers: FX Chain Algorithm — How chain routes are found and calculated