A foreign expense without a frozen rate is converted with today's rate.
When the server could not fetch rates itself, it counted the amount 1:1
in the trip currency, although the browser had the rates all along. A
VND bill on an AUD trip was settled as millions of AUD.
Such a row is now left out of the balances, flows, final budgets, trip
totals and per-person summaries. The settlement reports it under
`unconverted` and says which currency its figures are in; the trip
summary lists the ids and the budget prompt says how many are missing.
The browser lends the rates it already holds (`fallback_fx`) when it
saves an expense or a settle-up transfer, and to heal existing rows
through the new POST .../budget/freeze-rates route, which an editor's
Costs view calls for the rows the settlement left out. The server still
prefers its own rate, uses a lent one only while it is quoted against
the trip currency, and never replaces a frozen or explicit rate. The
settlement also takes the browser's display rate (`base_rate`) in place
of a display quote the server cannot fetch; the browser leaves out a
figure the query would refuse. The browser's own fetch gives up after
10 s.
Changing a row's currency while no rate is available no longer keeps
the old currency's rate; the row goes back to unfrozen.
MCP gets the same through the new freeze_budget_rates tool, which only
ever pins the server's own rate.
Maurice
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