Title: Currency Conversion Required
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Currency Conversion Required

 *  Resolved [mnschwarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mnschwarz/)
 * (@mnschwarz)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/currency-conversion-required/)
 * I’m getting ‘Error: there was a problem connecting to payment gateway’ while 
   using test mode on my live site – [http://www.libertadtravel.com](http://www.libertadtravel.com).
   I checked the Stripe logs and found the following:
 * error:
    type: “invalid_request_error” message: “Invalid currency: usd. You can
   change your account to process transactions in usd by adding a bank account for
   this currency at [https://dashboard.stripe.com/account](https://dashboard.stripe.com/account).
   Your account currently supports these currencies: mxn.” param: “currency”
 * Sounds pretty obvious…. My problem is that I can’t create a USD (or any other
   currency) account with Stripe yet. I use Woocommerce Currency Switcher to allow
   multiple currencies. But is there a way to force a conversion to MXN on checkout?
   Thanks.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/stripe-for-woocommerce/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/stripe-for-woocommerce/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Stephen Zuniga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephenzuniga001/)
 * (@stephenzuniga001)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/currency-conversion-required/#post-6386331)
 * I made a quick change on this plugin github that might fix it. Check it out here(
   [https://github.com/stezu/stripe-for-woocommerce/](https://github.com/stezu/stripe-for-woocommerce/)).
   There’s a link to a zip on the right side, delete the existing plugin, then upload
   the zip and let me know if it works better. I was grabbing an unfiltered order
   currency and it looks like that currency switcher needs the filtered version.
   If it works I can push it out with the next release.
 *  Thread Starter [mnschwarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mnschwarz/)
 * (@mnschwarz)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/currency-conversion-required/#post-6386347)
 * Stephen,
    Thanks. Did as you suggested but the currency is still being charged
   in USD. Even when I change the base currency to be MXN it still somehow goes 
   through to stripe as USD and I receive the same error.
 *  Plugin Author [Stephen Zuniga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephenzuniga001/)
 * (@stephenzuniga001)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/currency-conversion-required/#post-6386355)
 * Try disabling the currency switcher and leaving your base currency as mxn to 
   see if it goes through as mxn.
 *  Thread Starter [mnschwarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mnschwarz/)
 * (@mnschwarz)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/currency-conversion-required/#post-6386356)
 * Yeah that works fine without the currency switcher. I guess I should have a chat
   to them about this issue?
 *  Thread Starter [mnschwarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mnschwarz/)
 * (@mnschwarz)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/currency-conversion-required/#post-6386357)
 * Actually currency switcher is just passing the currency on to the payment gateway(
   stripe) so it’d need to be made possible in this plugin correct?
 *  Plugin Author [Stephen Zuniga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephenzuniga001/)
 * (@stephenzuniga001)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/currency-conversion-required/#post-6386360)
 * I’m not going to dissect the currency switcher plugin to determine how it works.
   I saw that they listen to a filter I was not using so I updated that code. If
   it doesn’t work then I don’t know why that is but it’s something that they should
   know. You should post this on their support forums to see what they say.

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 * Last reply from: [Stephen Zuniga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephenzuniga001/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/currency-conversion-required/#post-6386360)
 * Status: resolved