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import ParameterTypes from "@site/src/components/ParameterTypes"

# updateCurrencies - Pricing Module Reference

This documentation provides a reference to the `updateCurrencies` method. This belongs to the Pricing Module.

This method is used to update existing currencies with the provided data. In each currency object, the currency code must be provided to identify which currency to update.

## Example

```ts
import {
  initialize as initializePricingModule,
} from "@medusajs/pricing"

async function updateCurrencies () {
  const pricingService = await initializePricingModule()

  const currencies = await pricingService.updateCurrencies([
    {
      code: "USD",
      symbol: "$",
    }
  ])

  // do something with the currencies or return them
}
```

## Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "data",
    "type": "[UpdateCurrencyDTO](../../pricing/interfaces/pricing.UpdateCurrencyDTO.mdx)[]",
    "description": "The currencies to update, each having the attributes that should be updated in a currency.",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": [
      {
        "name": "code",
        "type": "`string`",
        "description": "The code of the currency to update.",
        "optional": false,
        "defaultValue": "",
        "expandable": false,
        "children": []
      },
      {
        "name": "name",
        "type": "`string`",
        "description": "The name of the currency.",
        "optional": true,
        "defaultValue": "",
        "expandable": false,
        "children": []
      },
      {
        "name": "symbol",
        "type": "`string`",
        "description": "The symbol of the currency.",
        "optional": true,
        "defaultValue": "",
        "expandable": false,
        "children": []
      },
      {
        "name": "symbol_native",
        "type": "`string`",
        "description": "The symbol of the currecy in its native form. This is typically the symbol used when displaying a price.",
        "optional": true,
        "defaultValue": "",
        "expandable": false,
        "children": []
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "sharedContext",
    "type": "[Context](../../pricing/interfaces/pricing.Context.mdx)",
    "description": "A context used to share resources, such as transaction manager, between the application and the module.",
    "optional": true,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": [
      {
        "name": "enableNestedTransactions",
        "type": "`boolean`",
        "description": "A boolean value indicating whether nested transactions are enabled.",
        "optional": true,
        "defaultValue": "",
        "expandable": false,
        "children": []
      },
      {
        "name": "isolationLevel",
        "type": "`string`",
        "description": "A string indicating the isolation level of the context. Possible values are `READ UNCOMMITTED`, `READ COMMITTED`, `REPEATABLE READ`, or `SERIALIZABLE`.",
        "optional": true,
        "defaultValue": "",
        "expandable": false,
        "children": []
      },
      {
        "name": "manager",
        "type": "`TManager`",
        "description": "An instance of a manager, typically an entity manager, of type `TManager`, which is a typed parameter passed to the context to specify the type of the `manager`.",
        "optional": true,
        "defaultValue": "",
        "expandable": false,
        "children": []
      },
      {
        "name": "transactionId",
        "type": "`string`",
        "description": "A string indicating the ID of the current transaction.",
        "optional": true,
        "defaultValue": "",
        "expandable": false,
        "children": []
      },
      {
        "name": "transactionManager",
        "type": "`TManager`",
        "description": "An instance of a transaction manager of type `TManager`, which is a typed parameter passed to the context to specify the type of the `transactionManager`.",
        "optional": true,
        "defaultValue": "",
        "expandable": false,
        "children": []
      }
    ]
  }
]} />

## Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;[CurrencyDTO](../../pricing/interfaces/pricing.CurrencyDTO.mdx)[]&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "The list of updated currencies.",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": [
      {
        "name": "CurrencyDTO[]",
        "type": "[CurrencyDTO](../../pricing/interfaces/pricing.CurrencyDTO.mdx)[]",
        "optional": false,
        "defaultValue": "",
        "description": "",
        "expandable": false,
        "children": [
          {
            "name": "CurrencyDTO",
            "type": "`object`",
            "description": "A currency's data.",
            "optional": false,
            "defaultValue": "",
            "expandable": false,
            "children": []
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
]} />