# Fishbowl: "Cannot change the home currency rate"

> Fishbowl won't let you modify the exchange rate for your company's base currency.

## What it means
Fishbowl prevents changes to your home currency rate—the fixed baseline used to calculate all other exchange rates. This rate is locked because moving it would distort every other currency's value in the system.

## What to check
- Verify you're editing the right currency. Are you trying to change the home currency itself instead of another currency's rate against it?
- Check whether currency changes are prevented due to existing transactions or a business setting that restricts rate edits.
- Confirm your user role has access to currency administration (may require system admin or accounting manager-level permissions).

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*From Israel Lopez Consulting (ILC). Custom Fishbowl Inventory integrations and software, and Fishbowl experts since 2015. Written by Israel Lopez. Questions about this topic, or want to reach the people who wrote it? Visit https://israellopezconsulting.com/contact*