How to sell in various currencies?

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Tue, 11/29/2011 - 09:56

michael

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What's my best option to sell products in US$, EUR and Chinese Yuan?

I launched an English website with MS-Suite and Filedownload suite a week ago. After 200+ paid downloads with not a single issue, it's clear for me that MS is working like charm and that it is a tremendous bang for the buck.

Now I would like to replicate the website for China and Germany.

What are my best options to do that?

I'd love to use i18n and Drupals multilanguage features, present 3 languages under 3 domains from one single drupal instance. Is there a way to have Moneyscripts offering different products using different currencies from a single drupal instance?

Run 3 distinct Instances of Drupal by using Drupals Multisite setup. This way I would loose the benefit of easily sharing content between the websites. That would be a pitty.

a)? b)? Or something inbetween?

Wed, 11/30/2011 - 16:51

Leighton Whiting

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Michael, If I remember

Michael,

If I remember correctly, the Multi-site module allows you to specify different configuration settings for different 'domains', so you should theoretically be able to change the currency used in the MS Core settings page depending on the site. Setting separate amounts though might not work... It's work giving a try though.

Let me know if you run across any issues.

Sincerely,

Leighton Whiting

Wed, 02/08/2012 - 15:03

michael

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Are all the strings

Are all the strings translatable via the regular translation interface? What do I have to do to add CNY as a new currency?

Wed, 02/08/2012 - 15:39

Leighton Whiting

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It depends also on what

It depends also on what gateway you are using. All gateways that I can think of don't accept CNY (RMB) because it cannot be readily converted to USD.

Not really sure what the best way to handle that would be... Using PayPal, you can convert the amount to USD and then accept payments in USD via PayPal with the settings I built in to convert currency. Not sure if it will be very accurate for CNY though. You can try it and see.

You can add the currency to the ms_core_get_currencies() function as well as the ms_core_format_money() function.

-Leighton

Fri, 02/10/2012 - 01:26

michael

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I think I have to face it:

I think I have to face it: selling online in China means that I have to go via Alipay. It is the only established gateway in China.

Do you accidentally know anyone who might have integrated Moneyscripts with Alipay successfully or unsuccessfully? I'd love to ask them regarding their experience with it.

Fri, 02/10/2012 - 17:28

Leighton Whiting

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Unfortunately no, I don't

Unfortunately no, I don't know of anyone who has used Alipay with it. If there is an Ubercart module for it, it would be a great start to integrating. Ubercart modules generally don't support Recurring Payments though.

-Leighton

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 11:58

michael

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There is an ubercart module

There is an ubercart module for it and it's well maintained: http://drupal.org/project/uc_alipay

However, we can't use it straight out of the box, can we?

Do you probably know any Drupal developer who might be able to implement an integration between Alipay and MS for reasonable money? Solid enough so that you would happily take it onto your codebase?

Mon, 02/13/2012 - 16:18

Leighton Whiting

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I took a look at the module

I took a look at the module and it looks like it would only support non-recurring payments.

I tried to find documentation but their site is in Chinese and I can't read it well enough to understand what's going on.

From what I read, AliPay doesn't support recurring payments, but correct me if I am wrong.

I sometimes build payment gateways and I've found the rates are usually $200-$300 for non-recurring and $500-$600 for recurring support.

I also will of course maintain any modules that people want to submit so that they receive updates when there are API changes, etc.

-Leighton

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