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I see that your simple sales there are choices of currency but the sales altimately occur in Kenya shillings, do you have a shortcodes we could use to change US$ to Ksh, we are offering PesaPal as an alternative to PayPal but the base currency is US$, when clients switch to PesaPal from the default PayPal, it switches the currency sign but retains the numerical value! Say $100 becomes Ksh100, not good!
We could use an external currency exchange plugin but would prefer to use a PesaPal short-code, that way the exchange matches the prevailing PesaPal rates.
A currency US$ conversion to Ksh. Or an exchange rate callcode that reads the days exchange rate from PesaPal will do just fine

No one replied to this.Anyway most shopping carts have a plugin in built for this. You can do the same thing too.Just add an iframe that does conversions after totals if the currency is different than yours before you charge. I am sure that there are lots of sites that do this but i can help too.

And it is USD to KSH

Edwin_php wrote:


Thanks @Edwin_php we used a java script to get the exchange rates from a web service, slow but steadily! We interchange PayPal and PesaPal as gateways on our crowdfunding portal so we needed USD to KES

Hi afrwood,

PesaPal has provided a way in which you can specify the currency. See below:

$post_xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>
<PesapalDirectOrderInfo
xmlns:xsi=\"www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"
xmlns:xsd=\"www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\"
Currency=\"".$currency."\"
Amount=\"".$amount."\"
Description=\"".$desc."\"
Type=\"".$type."\"
Reference=\"".$reference."\"
FirstName=\"".$first_name."\"
LastName=\"".$last_name."\"
Email=\"".$email."\"
PhoneNumber=\"".$phonenumber."\"
xmlns=\"www.pesapal.com\" />";

The curreny code you use should be the standard ISO code. Check the codes here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217