Open Exchange Rates StrawberryThe currency work, done and queued for one look
Your Open Exchange Rates, worked while you do something else: 1 read to go through it, 1 write to change it, and a card in front of every one of those changes.
Open the currency. Check it against something else. Write the change. Move to the next one. That is the Open Exchange Rates afternoon nobody can hand off, and a companion does the whole pass and gives you back the batch, with nothing landing on a currency until you approve it.
What it can do is exactly what Open Exchange Rates exposes to an account you authorise and nothing beyond it: 2 operations, 1 read and 1 write. In practice that means it can convert a currency, and work across the currencies and current rates.
The Open Exchange Rates API stops at Open Exchange Rates. A companion does not. The same run opens the customer's website, the supplier portal, the internal tool somebody built in 2019, because it is working the browser you are already signed into rather than calling in from outside it.
What does it already know about your current rates?
1 of the 2 operations is a read.
Your account, not a guess at it: a companion can retrieve current rates, and the full list below is the whole list, with nothing inferred from Open Exchange Rates's documentation.
The currencies are what most of this inventory is about, alongside the current rates. A companion can hold all 2 of these operations and forty open tabs in the same pass, which is how an afternoon of Open Exchange Rates admin becomes a queue you review.
- Retrieve Current Rates
What happens before it can convert currency?
The one write operation there is waits for you.
A companion can convert a currency, and each one is staged on an approval card first: you see the currency, the field and the new value before it lands in Open Exchange Rates.
Nothing in Open Exchange Rates is sent, changed or deleted on your behalf without that click, and a rejected card leaves the currency exactly as it was. The gate is the same one on every surface, described at security.
- Convert Currency
Can it retrieve current rates every morning by itself?
Yes.
Saved as a routine, the Open Exchange Rates currencies pass runs at the hour you pick: the Monday sweep, the overnight refresh, the Friday check. Keep Awake holds the machine awake for the length of a run, so a scheduled pass finishes with the lid closed.
The product and engineering playbook catalogues the other recurring shapes of the engineering admin, the Open Exchange Rates currencies sweep among them, and finished runs are published at real runs.
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