[Finance] Fw: Paypal non-USD recurring donations to evolt (was: Re: PayPal reminders suggestion)

[David Kaufman]

The thot plickens...

Evolt Treasurer <treasurer at evolt.orgrote:
> Hi Mark (see below),
>
> "Mark Groen" <mark at mgwebservices.carote:
>
>> "David Kaufman, Evolt Treasurer" <treasurer at evolt.orgrote:
>>> ...I just changed: "Block payments sent to me in a currency I
>>> do not hold" from "Ask Me" to "No, accept them and convert
>>> them to U.S. Dollars" [and] enabled our Paypal account to
>>> "maintain a balance" in other currencies besides USD, ...
>>> we're now accepting US, Austrailian and Canadian Dollars,
>>> as well as Euros, Pounds Sterling and Yen.
>>>
>>> [...] please try it again, now that I've tweaked these settings,
>>> and let us know if it works better for you that way.  Just to
>>> be thorough, you don't have a balance in your Paypal account,
>>> right?
>>
>> [MG:]
>> That's what was so weird about it, I do have a paypal account with
>> [plenty] in it all the time. I just tried it again, clicked on
>> Donate, got a log in and used my account name that was recognized no
>> problem, but the confirm payment page that resulted said:
>>
>> eCheck:   $12.67 CAD from HSBC XXXXXX7150
>>    PayPal"s Exchange Rate as of Apr. 22, 2005:
>>   1 Canadian Dollar = 0.789409 U.S. Dollars
>>
>> I want it taken out of my Paypal account instead, there has never
>> been a need to take money from my bank account into Paypal, it's
>> always the other way around ;-)
>
> Ahh, I think I've got it, now.  The subscribe link on the support page
> has a hidden input named "currency_code" hard-coded to a value of
> "USD". I bet we can change that (now that I've added the other
> currencies) to a drop-down allowing you to choose your own local
> currency, and it will let you subscribe using instant transfers
> instead of requiring you to use the more expensive "eCheck" funding
> source.
> Let me see about fixing this now on that page of the test site
> http://test.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ and I'll get back to you
> about testing that out as soon as it's updated, ok?
>
> Thanks again, Mark!
>
> -dave
>
> David Kaufman, Evolt Treasurer <treasurer at evolt.org