PayPal Express Default Currency

I have a major issue with 2.0.1.1 I have CAD set as my default currency in all 3 places on my website plus I tried adding the CAD to the controller/payments/paypal express php file as well & dumped the cookies.

The problem I have if customer selects USD on checkout opencart is sending the order to paypal as USD. I want everything to be in CAD. How do I fix this? I only have a CAD paypal business account as well paypal did not automatically switch the customers payment it opened a USD balance account which I had to convert & lost some money on.

I really need some help on this. I switched from zen to this I hope I am not going to regret that decision.

Since paypal technically supports USD, it will allow the order to go through as USD. This isn't something you control in the admin.

If you want to force a certain currency, you'll have to force the currency in the code. And it looks like there is a massive bug in the paypal code that forces ALL payments to be USD and then reformats the currency code.

So it is taking 10 CAD
converting it to USD (lets say 9)
Then formatting it as 9 CAD

What a mess.

For now, edit
catalog/controller/payment/pp_express.php

and find all places USD exists and change to CAD
That should at least fix your issue
Q

Yep tried that & now that I have a order on the site I cannot remove USD now that a order is attached to it. until it's fixed what about standard paypal does it have the bug too? I would switch to that until it's fixed.
Thanks for the reply BTW!

You can try this.

allenshea wrote:You can try this.

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	<file name="catalog/controller/checkout/confirm.php">
	<operation>
	<search position="after">
	<![CDATA[
	$this->load->model('extension/extension');
	]]></search>
	<add>
	<![CDATA[
			if (isset($this->session->data['shipping_method']['code']) && strpos($this->session->data['payment_method']['code'], 'pp_express') !== false) {
			$this->currency->set('CAD');
			}
	]]></add>
	</operation>
	</file>

Thank you but this is not going to work as the current file does not contain any of this code to replace & you have not said if it goes before or after something. If you tell me where it goes I will be happy to try it.

hfxracing wrote:

allenshea wrote:You can try this.

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	<file name="catalog/controller/checkout/confirm.php">
	<operation>
	<search position="after">
	<![CDATA[
	$this->load->model('extension/extension');
	]]></search>
	<add>
	<![CDATA[
			if (isset($this->session->data['shipping_method']['code']) && strpos($this->session->data['payment_method']['code'], 'pp_express') !== false) {
			$this->currency->set('CAD');
			}
	]]></add>
	</operation>
	</file>

Thank you but this is not going to work as the current file does not contain any of this code to replace & you have not said if it goes before or after something. If you tell me where it goes I will be happy to try it.

File name:

catalog/controller/checkout/confirm.php

Find:

$this->load->model('extension/extension');

After add:

if (isset($this->session->data['shipping_method']['code']) && strpos($this->session->data['payment_method']['code'], 'pp_express') !== false) {
$this->currency->set('CAD');
}

I wanted to let you know this worked perfectly thank you for the help!

do you know how to force PayPal Express checkout in EUR . OC version 1.5.6.4.

Thank you in advance

Search the catalog/controller/payment/pp_express.php file for
'USD'

change it to:
'EUR'

But it really should be fixed in the core. There is no reason that should be hardcoded to USD in the first place.