How To Change Currency In Google Analytics

Google can be an unfathomable beast and there are things we have had to do dozens of times, but still – ironically – have to ‘Google it’ to work out how to do it each time. So we thought we would capture a few of them in a series of short-and-to-the-point-articles. Read on!

If you don’t catch it when you sign up for your account initially, you will find your website ecommerce tracking is measured in US dollars by default. But that’s ok! It’s rectifiable.

How do you change the default currency in Google Analytics to GBP?

Follow these steps:

• Go to your Google Analytics account to the website that is showing in the wrong currency.
• Click ‘Admin’ in the left hand navigation, then click ‘View settings’ in the rightmost column on the main screen.
• Here there is a drop down that says ‘Currency displayed as’, so you select the currency you would like your reporting to show in.
  (and since we are in the UK here it is most likely needed to be set to ‘British Pound (GBP £)’. This is also a faff to find in the non-alphabetical ordered list you are presented with so use the search function!)
• Click ‘Save’ when you are done.

Read more

We hope that this series of articles will save you hours of searching for how to deal with small tasks in Google. Take a look at the other articles we’ve put together:

• How do you link your Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts together?
• How do you link your Google Analytics account to Google Ads?
• How do you import goals from Google Analytics to train your Google Ads account?
• How to use events as conversion goals in Google Ads

As we work our way through small and always difficult to remember tasks at the coalface of marketing, we’re sure there will be additions to this list very soon, so maybe bookmark this page if you found it helpful.

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