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April 30, 2013 at 9:54 am

@aivars —

Question for you:

The reason why the latvian currency was not supported by the plugin was because we don’t support a payment gateway that accepts that currency. This, obviously doesn’t apply to you since you’re using the offline, invoice option as your gateway. So my question is, in your opinion, should we support every currency option — even those that are not backed up by a payment gateway to accept payments in that currency?

This leads to some other potential future issues since the currency that is used for display is based on the organization country set in the General Settings page that might even be potentially different than the currency that the actual gateway takes. It’s a rabbit hole that we’re planning on revisiting in the next generation version of the plugin and have had numerous development talks about in the past. Just looking for feedback so we know how people want and are expecting to use Event Espresso.

April 30, 2013 at 12:14 pm

Aivars —

The plan moving forward is to drop the current functionality where the currency is determined based on the location. This obviously becomes an issue with EU countries or countries that support multiple currencies and adds more headaches. But this isn’t a change we’ll see in the current branch of Event Espresso (3.1.x). Ultimately, we’ll be moving toward more what you’re thinking where you can specify the country and the currency separately and I believe the plan is to deal with that on the payments page, since that’s what is really affected. Support for multiple currencies may come in one form or another at some point, but it’s tricky as it also relies on gateway support for multiple currencies.

For now, what we can try to start doing is specifying the currencies to the countries, but it will probably be on an as-needed basis since most of our development energy is toward Event Espresso 4.0+.

April 30, 2013 at 12:20 pm

oh AND…

PDF invoice show EUR.

Sidney’s suggested fix should have taken care of that…
What you could try is open /gateways/invoice/function.pdf.php and replace this:

		// this temp stop gap for Euro decode issue
		if(getCountryZoneId($org_options['organization_country']) == '2'){
		$currency_sign = 'EUR ';
		}else{
		$currency_sign = html_entity_decode( $org_options[ 'currency_symbol' ], ENT_QUOTES, 'ISO-8859-15' );
		}

…with this

		// this overrides the currency symbol to be LVL
		$currency_sign = 'LVL';

April 30, 2013 at 1:08 pm

right, and if you wanted to change the currency symbol so it’s not EUR, you’d need to change that to:

case 'LVA' : $org_options['currency_symbol'] = 'LVL'; //Latvian

The above code Sidney posted would set the currency code for Latvia to be EUR.