Paypal default country and currency

[flamer]

My Website is based in New Zealand so 99% of my sales will be from here, what i would like is when the user clicks the paypal express button the default country selected is New Zealand (I know thats more a paypal setting but I'm sure you guys will know).

and also how can i be sure what currency paypal is charging someone? I have the default currency on zencart set for NZD, but whats to stop someone from the states leaving it on NZD, going to paypal and paying the NZD amount with their US credit card? Will paypal adjust the rate correctly itself? Am I better off not having multiple currencies set on my site and letting them/paypal figure out the conversion for themselves?

[DrByte]

My Website is based in New Zealand so 99% of my sales will be from here, what i would like is when the user clicks the paypal express button the default country selected is New Zealand (I know thats more a paypal setting but I'm sure you guys will know).

I don't understand the question.

but whats to stop someone from the states leaving it on NZD, going to paypal and paying the NZD amount with their US credit card?

Why does it matter? PayPal will charge the card using the currency used when the order is placed. If the merchant's bank is in another country/currency, then that bank will charge the customer whatever exchange rate and corresponding fees are applicable to the transaction. Just like any other attempt to use a different-currency credit card abroad.

[flamer]

Why does it matter? PayPal will charge the card using the currency used when the order is placed. If the merchant's bank is in another country/currency, then that bank will charge the customer whatever exchange rate and corresponding fees are applicable to the transaction. Just like any other attempt to use a different-currency credit card abroad.

Ok but how do I know what currency is used? although I have set zencart's default currency to NZD, paypal would appear its defaulting to USD (however its hard to tell as it says nothing about currency anywhere on the orde rpage), I have used other peoples zencart systems where the paypal page clearly shows the amount with the currency next to it so that is really what i am trying to achieve and the end user can figure it out for themselves.

[DrByte]

Additionally, you have a few choices for handling multiple currencies in your site:

a) Set your site up for just ONE currency, and let the customers/bank sort it out.
b) Set your site up for multiple currencies and then manually manage the exchange rates for all those currencies on a daily/weekly basis.
c) Set your site up for multiple currencies, managing exchange rates manually, and set your PayPal module configuration in your store so that it auto-converts payment to a certain currency before submitting to PayPal. Again, you must manage exchange rates yourself. The only benefit to this is that all your transactions to PayPal will always be submitted in the specified currency, meaning you won't need to convert currencies within your PayPal account occasionally if the customer has selected a certain alternate currency for making payment. It's a convenience for *you* and *not* for your customer.

[britneycook]

Hi... I also have this issue
when customer clicks confirm order and is directed to paypal, the customer is sent to the US version of paypal:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr
rather than
https://www.paypal.com/nz/cgi-bin/webscr

The default country is in the dropdown menu is USA and the client info is not sent to paypal (the customer then has to re-enter all the info again). Its problematic cos many customers leave here cos they think its a USA company selling in NZ.

Im assuming this is because of incorrect setting in the customers web browser and paypal is picking up on the browser country? Is there a way to override this so that the customer is always sent to the NZ version?

My Website is based in New Zealand so 99% of my sales will be from here, what i would like is when the user clicks the paypal express button the default country selected is New Zealand (I know thats more a paypal setting but I'm sure you guys will know).

[DrByte]

What version of Zen Cart?
What locale settings are you using in your english.php file?
And are you using Express Checkout? Or the antiquated Website Payments Standard approach?

[britneycook]

Hi DrByte
Heres whats in there at the moment.


Version 1.3.9h
@setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_NZ.ISO_8859-1');
Express Checkout

What version of Zen Cart?
What locale settings are you using in your english.php file?
And are you using Express Checkout? Or the antiquated Website Payments Standard approach?

[britneycook]

Just a heads up, it was
@setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_US.ISO_8859-1');

and i changed it to NZ... Still no go...

[britneycook]

Please if any one can help i would trully appreciate it...

Ive also changed the paypalwpp.php
from:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr
to
https://www.paypal.com/nz/cgi-bin/webscr'

and still no luck..