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Paypal does not default to euro

Posted: January 29, 2014 at 7:34 pm


Yannis Develekos

January 29, 2014 at 7:34 pm

Hi everyone,

I have selected euro as currency in Payment Settings – Paypal Settings, but when the customer is transfered to Paypal it uses USD. Any ideas?

Regards,
Yannis


Dean

January 30, 2014 at 2:00 am

Hi,

Please go to the Event Espresso Payment Settings and check that the PayPal option “Select the Currency for Your Country ” is set to Euro.


Yannis Develekos

January 30, 2014 at 3:42 am

Come on Dean! I specifically wrote that I have set it to Euro. It actually reads “EUR”.

Tnx


Dean

January 30, 2014 at 6:00 am

Hi Yannis,

It was obviously early when I responded, sorry about that.

Checking your site versus a test install, it looks like you have changed the EUR currency code to €, is that correct?

It appears that the gateway code has either been changed or is picking up on the symbol change and is sending the € symbol to PayPal as part of the data that is transferred over to them.

However PayPal need that information () to be EUR not €, which is why it is not recognising it and reverting to PayPals default of USD.


Yannis Develekos

January 30, 2014 at 7:22 am

NP Dean,

This was the behaviour before the change from EUR to €. Then I followed Josh’s advice. Is this invalid? What should I do?

Regards,
Yannis


Yannis Develekos

January 30, 2014 at 8:02 am

In event-espresso\gateways\paypal\settings.php the line for euro is:


<option value="EUR">
Line 146: <?php _e('Euros (€)', 'event_espresso'); ?>

So, this seems to be correct. Paypal still defaults to USD.


Yannis Develekos

January 30, 2014 at 8:04 am

Hey, I just tried to test it again and now it works. I will get back to you if something changes. I really cannot understand what’s going on.

Regards,
Yannis

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