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Paypal does not default to euro

Posted: January 29, 2014 at 7:34 pm

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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

    • Support Staff

    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

      • Support Staff

      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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