RE: View in Any Currency, Checkout in Default

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Hi Paul - 

Actually, it's more for the store owner (me) than the customer. Yes, when the customer purchases something, it's billed in the billing currency of the place they buy. So if you're in India it would be billed in Rupees and converted to your home currency by the card company. But only if you're the customer.

However, as a shop-owner, I can only bill someone in the currency of my merchant account. I can't bill someone in US $ on a C$ merchant account, nor can I bill someone in Yen or Euro or any other currency. So the conversion must happen somewhere before I can use my credit card gateway.

I have to convert the viewing currency back into my home currency in order to put the bill through my merchant account. At present OSC passes the [b]viewing [/b]currency number through. What I want is it to show and pass the [b]billing [/b]currency.

As for Worldpay, I'll have a look. But I want to use my own merchant account so I'll have to see if it does that.

Thanks for the input!  :D 

-al