Help needed dealing with currencies, can you please help?

[hostingstudio]

Hello everyone.

 

I am having a problem with currencies, I have tried to search but I haven't quite found a solution yet.

 

I am a UK based company, but being Italian mother tongue myself, 95% of my customers are Italian companies, so nearly all invoices are raised in EUR.

 

My ONLY two payment gateways are bank transfer and Google Checkout.

 

As for bank transfer, no problem at all... customer sends a payment in EUR, my bank converts to GBP upon receiving the funds.

 

However, not all my customers are happy to pay to a UK bank account, so some of them choose to pay by Google Checkout.

 

As Google Checkout only accepts either USD or GBP, I have forced the gateway to first convert EUR to GBP, then proceed with payment, and this works well.

 

Now, though, I have a problem with PRODUCT prices being converted all the time, and that's something I want to definitely avoid.

 

How can I keep the PRODUCT price fixed (regardless of what currency the price is displayed in) and use conversion ONLY for Google Checkout gateway payment option?

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Fabio

Edited April 29, 2011 by hostingstudio

[onager]

HI Fabio,

The easy way is to try an account with PayPal. Keep your prices in euros and PayPal will convert these to pounds or dollars or whatever your local currency is. This conversion is not expensive.

The hardest way is to try to get your government step into the euro-zone. That solves all these problems; will take a bit longer, I suppose .

[hostingstudio]

Hi.... funny joke indeed, unfortunately Paypal is a NO NO.... we have had a terrible experience with them, that's why we switched to Google.

 

Matt replied to a ticket that what I want is unfortunately not possible... :-(((

 

Hopefully in the future, but for now, it's not an option.