More currencies

[Changaco]

This issue is about the following paragraph from https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/liberapay-now-supports-us-dollars-f9484e3008f8:

Our payment partner currently supports 9 other currencies which could be added to Liberapay: the British pound (GBP), the Canadian dollar (CAD), the Swedish krona (SEK), the Norwegian krone (NOK), the Danish krone (DKK), the Swiss franc (CHF), the South African rand (ZAR), the Polish złoty (PLN), and the Australian dollar (AUD). Please reach out to us if you’re interested in receiving donations in one of these currencies.

[Changaco]

We have a first +1 for CAD from https://mastodon.zombocloud.com/@staticsafe/99134531153221958.

[Changaco]

https://mastodon.art/@awyruu/99134759598579659

I signed up before I'd finished my morning coffee haha!! I prefer having things in USD (AUD to USD is... kinda bad), & I do know from that USD to AUD does work - or at least it does for me.

I can't program, but I thought I should let you folks know about this. Also, I obviously have interest in AUD support being a thing.

[Changaco]

+1 for GBP from https://mastodon.at/@JubalBarca/99135829048118644

[ghost]

+1 for CAD here too! :)

[artsyhonker]

I would definitely like GBP!

[artsyhonker]

(I mean, the pound is all over the place at the moment, and in some ways it's better for me if my income is in a more stable currency like EUR, but I think my patrons are more likely to get involved if they see £, so.)

[LiamDawe]

GBP please! This would incredibly simplify the system for taxes for those of us in the UK. In fact, it would make you my favourite platform and one of very few that would do it.

[iangilfillan]

If your payment partner offers this, what is the downside of adding a new currency? Excited to see the South African rand on there, this will ease things for people from here receiving donations.

[Changaco]

The downside is additional complexity. For example we currently have a binary choice for currencies: you can either accept all of them or only one; since we only have two currencies all possibilities are actually covered, but as soon as we add more currencies two options won't be enough anymore. (Update: we should probably replace the accept_all_currencies column with a new accepted_currencies column. Update 2: this is done.)

There's also a bit of work to do under the hood because some of our code can only handle two currencies at the moment, we need to make it generic before adding more.

[Changaco]

Cryptocurrencies are a separate matter, see #364 and #567.

[ghost]

This one is not in the list, but I just want to say that it would be great to eventually have the Mexican peso (MXN) 😄

[yaxu]

+1 for GBP, well really it doesn't really make sense for me to take donations without wide cross-currency support, as some might take offence if their donation isn't accepted based on where they live.

[Changaco]

if their donation isn't accepted based on where they live.

That is unavoidable (#729). It's also mostly unrelated to the number of currencies supported inside Liberapay.

[yaxu]

Righto, I don't fully understand how this works but just a +1 on supporting as many currencies as is easily possible. Thanks for your work on this

[Changaco]

+1 for INR from https://mastodon.social/@prashere/99883593355335663

[fullofcaffeine]

+1 for MXN

[fullofcaffeine]

I'm new to liberpay, just found it out. Happy I did! I don't know much about it yet: how complicated is it to support new currencies? Do you work with any payment gateways in particular? I'm particularly interested in adding supprot for Mexican Peso.

[Changaco]

Now that we're using Stripe and PayPal instead of Mangopay the currency that the donor sends and the one that the creator receives no longer have to be the same, so we can "easily" add support for 31 other currencies in addition to EUR and USD.

[Changaco]

Here is the list of the 31 currencies I'm working on adding:

• Australian Dollar (AUD)
• Bulgarian Lev (BGN)
• Brazilian Real (BRL)
• Canadian Dollar (CAD)
• Swiss Franc (CHF)
• Chinese Yuan (CNY)
• Czech Koruna (CZK)
• Danish Krone (DKK)
• British Pound (GBP)
• Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
• Croatian Kuna (HRK)
• Hungarian Forint (HUF)
• Indonesian Rupiah (IDR)
• Israeli New Shekel (ILS)
• Indian Rupee (INR)
• Icelandic Króna (ISK)
• Japanese Yen (JPY)
• South Korean Won (KRW)
• Mexican Peso (MXN)
• Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)
• Norwegian Krone (NOK)
• New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
• Philippine Piso (PHP)
• Polish Zloty (PLN)
• Romanian Leu (RON)
• Russian Ruble (RUB)
• Swedish Krona (SEK)
• Singapore Dollar (SGD)
• Thai Baht (THB)
• Turkish Lira (TRY)
• South African Rand (ZAR)

[Changaco]

The 31 new currencies are now live. The form to modify the list of currencies you accept is in https://liberapay.com/about/me/edit/currencies

[Changaco]

(The new issue for additional currencies is #1288.)

[Changaco]

The first payment in one of the 31 new currencies (PLN) has just been successfully processed via PayPal.