Sell your digital products at purchasing power parity for based on users country. Not everyone is able to pay for the default pricing of the high income world. Cup of Coffee in Colombia or Indonesia cost less than USA or Australia, apply same principal to your digital products and get more customers. This package is inspired by purchasing-power-parity npm and uses their API.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile

gem 'geo_ppp'

and run bundle

bundle install

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

gem install geo_pp

GeoPPPFetcher.fetch

will get the purchasing power parity data based on user's IP address.

GeoPPPFetcher.fetch('LK')

will get the purchasing power parity data based on country code provided.

Both above will return a following json structure, you could use pppConversionFactor to convert it price based on user's geographic location

{"countryCodeIsoAlpha2":"LK","countryCodeIsoAlpha3":"LKA","currenciesCountry":{"LKR":{"symbol":"Rs  රු","name":"Sri Lankan rupee"}},"currencyMain":{"exchangeRate":300.701498,"name":"USD","symbol":"$"},"ppp":10040.0,"pppConversionFactor":0.33}

def index
  original_price = 79.99

  begin
    response = GeoPPPFetcher.fetch
	 discounted_price = original_price * response['pppConversionFactor']
	 data = { original_price: original_price, discounted_price: discounted_price }
	 render json: { success: true, data: data }
  rescue StandardError => e
    render json: { success: false, error: e.message }, status: :unprocessable_entity
  end
end

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/geo_ppp. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the geo_ppp project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.