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In QuickBooks Self-Employed, changing the default currency is unavailable. This feature is available in all QuickBooks Desktop versions. As well as, on some of our QuickBooks Online plans such as Essential, Plus, and Advanced. To change the currency, we can manually convert the amount before recording them. You might also want to integrate third-party applications that can help us use multiple currencies.
To learn more about the multi-currency feature offered by the Desktop and Online versions, check out these articles:
If you are not located in the US, you may open a QBSE account specific to your country version. e.g You may open a QBSE UK version account to have GBP as your default currency.
https:// quickbooks.grsm.io/UK-SE
You may need another workaround to deal with multi currency transactions.
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