Magento Paypal Multi-Currency allows customers to make payments in multiple currencies in Magento stores.
An international store welcomes customers from all countries and sells products and services in all corners of the world. A Magento PayPal store has visitors from all over the globe and uses PayPal Multicurrency as a payment mode which was earlier known as PayPal Express, should provide payment transaction facilities in their preferred currency as a method of payment.
Normal PayPal does not allow for the conversion of currency to pay. For instance, if a customer from the USA wants to make payment in his currency i.e. USD as a transaction currency on Magento then they must be allowed to complete the purchase and only make USD payment. But while using Magento’s PayPal Checkout for payments, the currency on the PayPal website is changed to the base currency. This could annoy the customer and he could cancel the purchase.
Paypal Checkout by default does not require purchases to be processed in currency other than the base currency of the shop. Because of such a drawback, the selected currency for the order will be replaced with the store’s base currency when a customer proceeds for payment. This creates confusion and non-satisfaction among customers and tends to leave without making the purchase. To make it easier for customers to make payments in their preferred currency for their order Elsner has created Magento 2 Paypal multi-currency extension. Except on the Paypal platform, the currency of consumer preference remains intact.
Elsner has created the Magento PayPal Multi-Currency module to help multiple currencies when making payments via PayPal Checkout. It ensures that the currency that the customer has selected remains intact throughout the payment process.
If the Magento store uses Paypal Checkout as a payment method, the PayPal multi-currency Magento extension is required. The customer would not get confused while the payment was being smoothly completed.
Paypal Multicurrency smoothly accepts payments from global customers and reinforces Magento 2 store user experience.
Let us see how the extension works?
The admin must integrate and enable the PayPal Express payment method in the store, enable the extension, and set up the base currency of the store. And it’s done, the extension starts working immediately after activated.
Once configured, the customers select their preferred currency from the currency drop-down in the frontend and proceed to pay. Then, the customers get redirected to the Paypal Express payment page and the currency remains intact just as selected during checkout, allowing customers to pay in their hometown currency.
What are the extension features?
Our extension does not work with the customers’ card data or any personal information. Whenever the customers add products to the cart and proceed to checkout using the PayPal Express payment method, they get redirected to the PayPal payment page with preferred currency to complete the payment. Other key features are –
- Allows all currencies to use with PayPal standard & PayPal express payment method
- Allows accepting payment in a currency other than the base currency
- Allows customer to place an order in their currency available in store
- Easy one-click installation
- Supported with Magento 2.0.x, 2.1.x
What are the Benefits?
- Multiple currencies are supported – This enables the use of multiple currencies with PayPal Checkout payment program
- Currency other than the store base is accepted – Easily accept currency other than the Magento store base currency.
- Customer can pay in preferred currency – Enables customers to make their preferred currency payments by keeping the chosen currency listed on the website of PayPal
- Improve customer experience – By allowing the customer to pay in their preferred currency, hence improving customer satisfaction.
The multi-currency Magento PayPal module supports the PayPal Checkout method of payment and supports multiple currencies globally.
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- Multi-Store Supported
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You can also visit our site for Live Demo –
- Back-end| Just select “PayPal Multi-Currency” from the Username drop-down to log in
- Front-end| Configure the extension from back-end first as per your requirements to see it in action
Account & Pricing
To start using the extension, you must have a FREE account with PayPal Checkout. It supports various pricing plans for local and international payments.