What goes wrong with “Foreign currency” in a shop, especially around rate changes mid-day?

Accepting a second currency with a manually set exchange rate and returning change in the local one. Plan for: rate changes mid-day; rounding on change; cash drawer section for the second currency. In the catalog it is a plan and nothing is built.

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