Author Topic: Global network of organizations: multiple PayPal payees, multiple currencies (Read 1595 times)

a1tsal · October 01, 2010, 12:33:27 pm

Hi,

I support a global network of non-profits that share a web site and member database. Currently membership management is done with aMember, but in many ways CiviCRM is a better fit.

Membership fees are paid via PayPal to any one of several national organizations. (The user chooses which, although presumably they would always pay to their local.)

So, there is a requirement that the CRM can direct payment to different PayPal accounts. Is this possible in CiviCRM?

Also, payments are made in the corresponding national currency. I gather that CiviCRM does not currently support multiple currencies. According to http://civicrm.org/blogs/mlutfy/third-day-localisation-sprinthackathon , that was to be supported in 3.3, but it does not show in the current roadmap (http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/CiviCRM+v3.3). Was this postponed?

Thanks much,

David (for arobuddhism.org)

Dave Greenberg · October 01, 2010, 02:45:18 pm

You can setup multiple PayPal accounts in a CiviCRM site. However, you can only associate 1 PayPal account with a given online contribution / self-service membership signup page (at least "out of the box"). So you could direct folks to a specific membership signup page for "their" organization. Or there's likely a way to modify the membership signup page behavior using a hook so that the corresponding paypal account is used based on the membership "type" they select.

RE: multiple currencies - you can enable multiple currencies for the site and that allows you to select a currency when staff records a membership payment or contribution. For self-service membership signups, you'll also need to use some hooks to code for this. There's an example of retrieving a query string parameter (i.e. added value in a link) to set currency here:

http://civicrm.org/node/547

a1tsal · October 01, 2010, 05:38:29 pm

Thanks, this is very helpful. Having separate membership signup pages for each national organization is not a problem.

Out of the box, can each of those pages have its own national currency as well as PayPal account? Or does that require the /node/547 customization?

Thanks,

David

Donald Lobo · October 01, 2010, 11:27:50 pm

the national pages will need the customization described in that blog post (since civicrm has only one default currency)

lobo

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