Can I use Multiple Currencies with Paypal Website Payments Standard?

[pogglers]

Hi there,

I have a question about Multiple Currencies that my Dad (NormanRouxel) can't answer!
I am using Paypal Website Payments Standard and on the Paypal site it does say that multiple currencies can be set up and gives some HTML to paste in to an existing payment button. But I have no idea how to go about it as I can't access the HTML for the cart buttons.
I already display two currencies on the product pages so it would be good if customers could pay in either of these.

Am I right in thinking that I can set up Multiple Currencies?
If so how do I do it?

Many thanks,
Pogglers

[Bruce]

Pogglers,

If you can provide the HTML that needs to be added then someone up here can perhaps take a crack at seeing if it could be done. In general Actinic displays multiple currencies but accepts payments in only the primary currency that is defined in Business Settings. Not too sure as to how PayPal would deal with it, but then there are users up here who could perhaps shed some light.

Kind regards,

[pogglers]

Hi, thanks Bruce,

the code that Paypal gives to convert an existing payment button to Swiss Francs:

For example, if you wish to accept payment in Swiss Francs, specify the currency_code in your payment button as follows:

<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="CHF">

Paypal also talks about creating a new payment button in their button factory, but I presume this doesn't apply as Actinic has the buttons built in.

This is the code that Paypal gives as an example of a payment button using £s.

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="sales@@UKstore.com" >
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Union Jack Flag">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="20">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="GBP">
<input type="hidden" name="undefined_quantity" value="1">
<input type="image" src="http://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc.gif" border="0" name="submit" width="73" height="44">
</form>

This is the link to the Paypal page with the relevant information. https://www.paypal.com/ch/cgi-bin/we.../mc_wa-outside

It seems to me that they are saying you need to have different payment buttons on your site for each currency.
I'd be very grateful for any further input on this.

Many thanks,
Pogglers

[RuralWeb]

It seems to me that they are saying you need to have different payment buttons on your site for each currency

This is correct - in the button factory the currency is fixed so to get several currencies you need to build a button for each one and add them to your site - a basic example can be seen here http://www.yogamaster.co.uk/yoga_shop.htm

I dont think you would be able to do this within actinic.