Title: Currency problem
Last modified: May 31, 2018

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# Currency problem

 *  Resolved [dingdang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dingdang/)
 * (@dingdang)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/currency-problem-5/)
 * What is the best way to handle the situation for a multilingual/multicurrency
   site where at the shopping cart (for example using WPML) the total can change
   it’s currency?
 * Currently the plugin sends just the amount in whatever currency it is at the 
   site to Braintree where the currency is different.
 * Same works fine with the default PayPal plugin.

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 *  [Thomas Shellberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbeezy/)
 * (@shellbeezy)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/currency-problem-5/#post-10349394)
 * You can add additional currencies from within the Braintree(Credit Card) settings
   page. Under the **Merchant Account IDs** section you can add additional Merchant
   Account IDs which are linked to specific currencies.
 *  Thread Starter [dingdang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dingdang/)
 * (@dingdang)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/currency-problem-5/#post-10350528)
 * Thanks. The plugin however need some way to handle the situations where the currency
   is not supported (like paypal plugin does) as by default it sends the request
   to the default one with just the number value of the other currency.
    Is there
   any hook that could be used to recalculate the amount*currency to the default
   currency in such cases? To give an example – if the amount is 100GBP and let 
   say GBP is not supported by braintree but the default there is EUR, the payment
   will go trough but for 100EUR (not 100GBP). What we need is transparently recalculate
   100GBP to EUR and send the correct amount in EUR in the braintree request.
 *  [Thomas Shellberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbeezy/)
 * (@shellbeezy)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/currency-problem-5/#post-10359479)
 * [@dingdang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dingdang/) – Personally, I would
   recommend not offering your customers the ability to switch the transacted currency
   if you cannot actually receive transactions in that currency.
 * If you just need to display costs in different currencies(but not change the 
   currency that is actually used), you could use a currency converter widget/plugin:
 * [https://woocommerce.com/products/currency-converter-widget/](https://woocommerce.com/products/currency-converter-widget/)
 * Otherwise, this would require a customization to the plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [dingdang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dingdang/)
 * (@dingdang)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/currency-problem-5/#post-10360772)
 * We have managed to hide it as an option when the currency is not supported trough
   hooks at woocommerce and wpml/woo/multilingual plugins.
    It will be a good option
   however, to have automatically and transparently not to hide it but to convert
   unsupported currencies to some predefined default one and only after that to 
   send the request to braintree.
 *  [Thomas Shellberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbeezy/)
 * (@shellbeezy)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/currency-problem-5/#post-10361879)
 * Hello again,
 * Good to hear that you found a solution. I haven’t seen anyone else request this
   before so it might be too much of an edge-case scenario for the plugin to adopt.
 * You could post in the GitHub repository if you think it would make a nice enhancement
   or submit a pull request with your changes.
 * [https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-gateway-paypal-express-checkout](https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-gateway-paypal-express-checkout)

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 * [multicurrency](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multicurrency/)

 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Thomas Shellberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbeezy/)
 * Last activity: [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/currency-problem-5/#post-10361879)
 * Status: resolved