Browsing products, shipping, and currency display
Understand how IVOTIA product discovery works before checkout, how local currency display is chosen, and how product pages signal shipping availability and destination limits.
Updated: 2026-06-06
How product discovery works
Buyers can discover products through homepage recommendations, marketplace category pages, seller stores, and search/filter views. Product cards and product pages are designed to help buyers compare title, image, seller, price, and freshness before opening checkout.
Only active listings appear in the normal public marketplace flow. Draft, rejected, paused, or otherwise non-active listings are not meant to behave like normal public inventory.
How displayed currency works
IVOTIA tries to show prices in the buyer's selected or detected currency instead of forcing one marketplace-wide currency. The current storefront uses the active currency preference from the currency store and also passes that currency into server-side marketplace and homepage requests.
That means the number you see on homepage, marketplace pages, and product surfaces is usually a local display value rather than the seller's original listing currency. If the displayed currency looks wrong, the buyer can change it from the currency controls and browse again.
What a product page shows before checkout
A product page shows the current display price, seller information, product description, specifications, and shipping-related hints when the item is physical.
For physical products, IVOTIA also exposes shipping-specific cues such as shipping size, fulfilment mode, whether the item has free shipping, and whether seller-defined shipping countries limit where the item can be sent.
How shipping checks work before checkout
On physical product pages, buyers can test delivery availability by entering destination details such as postal code, city, and country. IVOTIA then calls the shipping-rates flow and returns an availability message before checkout.
The result is still a pre-check. Even when the page says delivery looks available, the final shipping cost and destination confirmation are still locked in during checkout.
Seller-defined versus platform shipping
Some products rely on IVOTIA-managed shipping logic, while others use seller-defined shipping rates or free shipping. If a seller uses seller-defined shipping, only the listed countries are expected to qualify and other destinations may be unavailable.
This matters when buyers browse across borders. Product discovery may be global, but shipping eligibility can still be narrower than the public listing visibility.
What buyers should verify before ordering
Before you order, confirm that the displayed currency is the one you expect, that the product condition and description are clear, and that the destination can actually be served if the item needs shipping.
If any of those details look inconsistent, use chat, shipping check, or the currency controls before proceeding to checkout.