Currency Symbols

Overview

A currency code API built on the ISO 4217 list. Look up a currency code such as EUR to get every country that uses it, or a country to get its currency. Countries can be a name (Canada), a two- or three-letter ISO code (CA or CAN) or a common alternative spelling, and are matched against ISO 4217's own country names, so KR finds Korea (the Republic of). The Free plan returns the country names and ISO codes. Paid plans add the symbol, the currency's full name, its numeric code, its minor units (the decimal places to show) and its live value: units per US dollar, the dollar value of one unit and the percent change since yesterday's close, refreshed every few minutes. To convert amounts, use Currency Converter.

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Formula

One function covers the whole catalog: the first argument names the source, the next are its inputs, and the field after them says which single value lands in the cell. Formulas covers the grammar that applies to all of them.

=VERVE("currencysymbols", A2, "countriesFound.0.country_name")

=VERVE.CALL("currencysymbols", A2, "countriesFound.0.country_name")

A2 holds the currency you are looking up. Drag the formula down and each row resolves on its own.

With literal values

Nothing has to come from a cell — typed values work the same way.

=VERVE("currencysymbols", "USD", "countriesFound.0.country_name")

=VERVE.CALL("currencysymbols", "USD", "countriesFound.0.country_name")

Inputs

Required inputs are positional, in the order below, followed by the field. Everything else is passed as a "name", value pair after that — the same shape as SUMIFS. Premium inputs are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.

What lands in your sheet

The field — the argument after the inputs — is what makes the formula resolve to one cell. Its value is a dot-path from the table below, so swapping it is how you pull a different value — one formula per column.

Seeing everything at once

Leave the field out and the formula returns the whole response instead: two columns, field name on the left and value on the right, spilling from the cell you typed in.

=VERVE("currencysymbols", A2)

=VERVE.CALL("currencysymbols", A2)

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Each one is exactly what the field argument accepts, so swapping it is how you pull a different value into a cell. On a plan without a Premium field the cell reads #PREMIUM(field) rather than a value, so a locked field never looks like a real answer.

Filling a whole column

Both platforms make one batched call for a column rather than one request per cell, and both cost the same — 1 credit per row looked up. How you write it differs, because the two runtimes batch at different points.

=VERVE("currencysymbols", A2:A100, "countriesFound.0.country_name")

In Google Sheets, give the arguments ranges and the answers spill down from the cell you typed in. Custom functions there run synchronously and in isolation, so dragged cells cannot be coalesced — the range form is how a column becomes one call. The field is required here: a per-row two-column table has nowhere to spill. Use a full column per input (A2:A100, not A2) — a single-cell reference is read as row 1 only and the rest of the column comes back blank.

In Excel, type the formula once and fill down — no range form and none needed, because its runtime is asynchronous and the add-in coalesces the calls a fill produces into a single batched request. Do not hand VERVE.CALL a range: Excel flattens it into positional arguments, so A2:A100 arrives as a hundred separate arguments and the cell reads #ERR rather than filling.

Either way, column A holds your currency values and the answers land beside them, one row each, blank rows skipped.

When a cell doesn't fill

A failed lookup returns readable text starting with #ERR rather than a spreadsheet error, because Excel cannot show a custom message on a real error — you would get a bare #VALUE! with no reason. The trade-off is that IFERROR() will not catch it; test with LEFT(cell, 4) = "#ERR" instead. Error handling covers the rest.

Before the formula works

The add-in reads the API key you saved once in the side panel — the key never goes in the formula, so a shared sheet does not leak it and a collaborator without access simply sees the last calculated values.

1. Install the add-in for Google Sheets or Excel.
2. Open the side panel and sign in, or paste a key from your dashboard.
3. Type the formula above into any cell.

Supported Currencies

170+ world currencies supported including fiat currencies, cryptocurrencies, and precious metals.

Use cases

E-Commerce Storefronts

Look up a buyer's country during checkout to retrieve the matching ISO currency code and render localized pricing with the correct symbol.

Invoicing Systems

Accounting platforms query an ISO currency code to identify the associated countries, numeric code, and decimal precision before generating international billing records.

Multi-Currency Digital Wallets

When a customer opens a foreign account balance, fetch the official currency name and symbol to display next to the ledger balance.

Expense Report Processing

Map foreign transaction entries to their originating country and currency code to validate expense submissions across international subsidiaries.

Other ways to use Currency Symbols

Set up Currency Symbols on VerveSheets, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveSheets account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.

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