Square Payment Module for Zen Cart [Support Thread]

[Spikenzie]

I have found a potential store user problem with this plug-in. It is not so much a bug but rather an issue that could cause financial problems for shop owners and unsatisfied customers.

This is the scenario, you let customers shop in multiple currencies but Square only takes payments in the currency in the country that the shop is based. We are in Canada but our store is set to a default currency of USD. If a Canadian customer checks out and their cart is set to USD their CC will be billed in CAD at about 30% more then their cart total. There is no warning from Square (or rather this plug-in) that they are going to do a currency conversion. See the potential problem?

I've been trying for a long time to create something I'm calling a clarity message that would appear at check-out, something like;

Square checkout only processes payments in (your square's currency), your order total is (your order total in some other currency), your CC will be billed (your order currency converted to your square's currency).

I had it working and nice looking from the user side; it would show the clear we will be charging your CC something else (if that was the case) or a generic "Secure check out with Square Payments" type message if no conversion was required.

I did this by using simon1066's post #126 to add an image, where he wrote:

Here's one way to add an image:

,and the logic from DrByte's post # 232 where he wrote

if ($order->info['currency'] != $location->currency) {

Problems where two fold, where I needed to insert the "if" logic into the code to get the payment title it caused errors on the admin side in modules payments menu and in places other than checkout the message would appear sort of like "your payment will be (nothing printed here) $."

I now have a static work around without amounts that look like this;



but, it does not appear correctly on the admin / customer orders pages or the order confirmation emailed to users. And, I don't think the message without amounts it is clear enough for some people.

Any ideas?