Thread:Support/Payflowpro gateway-select-dollar-amount/reply (2)

The amounts shown in the selectable list after this message should already indicate the currency for each item. If this is a combo, allowing users to enter their own amount, really the currency should be displayed in a separate resource.

This Payflow Pro extension is currencly used for the Wikimedia donation, but we have seen that even this form allows donating in Euros for example (and a few other currencies), notably because the Foundation has a bank account in the European Union (Citibank in Paris, with an account maintained in Euros for bank transfers or checks, by also accepting British pounds and a few other European currencies with a reduced fee for the change).

This extension may also be used by other sites than those of the WMF, each site deciding its prefered currency : if users select amount in USD, they will have to support additional costs for the currecny conversion from their bank. So other sites than the WMF may accept multiple currencies (probably not all of them, but the USD, EUR, GBP, AUD are very common on most sites are are easily processed internationaly, with low bank costs for the change).

When the amount requested is eelectable, it does not matter much which currency will be finally collected, because this is not a fixed price. All what matters is the minimum amount accepted for each currency (below this level, the bank fees may be too high compared to the effective amount collected, if these amounts can't be collected and stored in separate accounts for too long before being finally changed into the prefered currecny for the project).