Multi Currency but only 1 payment processing currency

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I want my site to show prices in several currencies, but my worldpay merchant account will only process transactions in GBP. I've found a couple of good contributions that allow me to show the price in the default GBP currency on the shopping cart page if the user has selected another currency but I've not managed to find our how I can change the currency to the default before the checkout process uses the worldpay module to take payment. Currently if a non GBP currency is selected I get a worldpay error. Anyone know of any solutions I can use to make this work?

 

Many thanks

[Wendy James]

How about just adding the different prices in the product description? I would think adding different currencies would make customers think they can pay in any currency then when going to checkout may be confused by the price difference.

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How about just adding the different prices in the product description? I would think adding different currencies would make customers think they can pay in any currency then when going to checkout may be confused by the price difference.

 

Thanks, but having the different currences is much better for customers so they can shop in their own currency even though they will actually pay in GBP. The customer is informed that other currencies will be converted to GBP for actual payment.

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I want my site to show prices in several currencies, but my worldpay merchant account will only process transactions in GBP. I've found a couple of good contributions that allow me to show the price in the default GBP currency on the shopping cart page if the user has selected another currency but I've not managed to find our how I can change the currency to the default before the checkout process uses the worldpay module to take payment. Currently if a non GBP currency is selected I get a worldpay error. Anyone know of any solutions I can use to make this work?

 

Many thanks

 

Hello Adam,

the easiest way would be to use the multiple currencies in WorldPay configuration, normally the account has a default of three currencies and you can have loaded as many as you want (there is a small admin charge for this). Your customer can then select whatever currency they want when the transaction is passed to WorldPay servers. Email the customer services with your installation ID, I have always found them pretty helpful.

 

 

Hope this help,

regards, Lee

 

Wooden Toys UK For wooden Toys,Games, Puzzles and gifts.

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Hello Adam,

the easiest way would be to use the multiple currencies in WorldPay configuration, normally the account has a default of three currencies and you can have loaded as many as you want (there is a small admin charge for this). Your customer can then select whatever currency they want when the transaction is passed to WorldPay servers. Email the customer services with your installation ID, I have always found them pretty helpful.

Hope this help,

regards, Lee

 

Wooden Toys UK For wooden Toys,Games, Puzzles and gifts.

 

Thanks but I'm trying to avoid the ?100 worldpay charge to add 2 additional currencies to my account.

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It turned out to be a pretty simple thing to do. In case anyone else is trying to do the same thing I just added the following line to the checkout_shipping.php file:-

 

$currency = DEFAULT_CURRENCY;