Integrate Paypal with the FCFA on its Woocommerce store

What is Paypal and its problems with the FCFA?

PayPal is a payment method that has become very common on e-commerce sites . It allows customers to pay easily, quickly and securely on their favorite sites and on sites that give them less confidence.

PayPal is therefore an essential payment gateway in our time to reassure customers who will buy on your site, offer them an alternative payment to the classic bank card and thus increase your turnover.

When you develop your e-commerce website with Woocommerce in WordPress, you have the advantage of already having a number of payment solutions already integrated, among which, guess what? Paypal Standard 😀.

Paypal Standard allows you to redirect customers from your store to their Paypal account so that they can proceed to payment on your Merchant account.

The small problem is that Paypal Standard does not support certain currencies, including the CFA Franc (XAF). So if you have configured the FCFA As the main currency of your site, Paypal Standard cannot be activated😥. You can see the list of currencies supported by Paypal here

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So how do you activate Paypal on a Woocommerce store in FCFA (XAF)?

There are actually several possible ways to do this, but I imagine you are interested in the simplest one. The Simple Solution to integrate Paypal on its Woocommerce store in FCFA (XAF) is to use an Extension (plugin) which will have the task of converting the FCFA to the currency of your Paypal account

Steps to follow:

1. Download and Activate the WooCommerce PayPal Currency Changer Plugin
2. Go to the Woocommerce Sub Menu and click on Woocommerce Currency
3. Define the target currency , the one that corresponds to your Paypal Account, then define the appropriate conversion rate and save the settings
4. Configure Paypal Standard in Woocommerce Settings with your paypal email, username, password and Live API signature (To be obtained in your Paypal account settings), then save the settings
5. Cash in 😉💸! That’s all you need, your woocommerce store in FCFA is already ready to collect your payments by Paypal.

In conclusion

You have discovered one of the tricks that allows you to accept payments by Paypal on your Woocommerce store in FCFA in the CEMAC zone. Of course there are other means, including the use of online payment aggregators in Cameroon which we have summarized. Happy reading and don’t hesitate to make your contributions in Comment.

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