BRL Currency Code / Express Checkout w/ PayPal

[jaswrks]

Referencing: https://websharks.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/4610

This is the response of PayPal:

"Regarding your question, I noticed that you didn't specify any currency in your SetExpressCheckout. > When you don't specify any currency, it will be defaulted to USD. That explains why when you try to pay using Brazilian Account you will received those error because Brazilian Account can only pay Brazilian Merchant in Brazilian Real."

It would seem this is a change in the PayPal API, where even with a $0 amount in a billing agreement request, there now needs to be a currency code associated with the $0 amount? I'm going to submit a test file for customer experimentation.

[jaswrks]

Awaiting customer feedback on this.

[jaswrks]

Customer reports this change corrected the issue.

[jaswrks]

Next Release Changelog:

• (s2Member Pro) Bug Fix: PayPal Pro Forms using Express Checkout for Billing Agreements under a non-native currency (i.e. under a different currency than their own PayPal account) were failing under some scenarios (notably with the BRL currency code). Fixed in this release. See also: this GitHub issue if you'd like technical details.

[jaswrks]

Work from this issue went out with the release of s2Member v150102.
http://www.s2member.com/changelog/#s2-changes-v150102

[mitchgrainger]

Hi Jason,

Sorry to find you here, but after a week of searching I have not been able to find an answer to this anywhere, and it seems this bug from 2014 has resurfaced. I have exactly the above problem with the latest version of S2Member and currency code AUD.

Mg > https://mitchgrainger.com

Please see my response from Paypal earlier today:

Hi Mitch

The zero dollar authorization request was made without passing the currencycode parameter. Hence we will use the default value which is AUD.

When processing billing agreement transaction, the transaction was made with USD. Since it is not matching with the first authorization transaction, we have to declined the request.

In your case, you need to pass currencycode=USD in the authorization request.

Since your are using s2member plugin, please refer their support to make necessary changes from your end.

Sincerely,
Anis
Merchant Technical Support
PayPal