Why I’m writing this?
Cause I’m a magento developer since 2007 (lunched the first production site based on 0.9.8 beta) and today I was asked to enable PayPal on a Bulgarian online store.
The result - a whole day searching the net for solution.
The Issue - The store use BGN (Bulgarian Lev) as base currency and the default view currency is also BGN. BGN is not supported by PayPal and this restricts all Bulgarian stores using Magento to enable PayPal as a payment method.
The only way to get something working is to set the base currency to EUR, default currency BGN and to configure currency rates. Then you’ll be able to send orders trough PayPal but you need to enter all your prices in EUR (no one need this).
For example shopping carts like osCommerce and ZendCart (not so powerful as Magento) have “PayPal Transaction Currency” so everyone with NONE supported currency can operate with PayPal.
When you install a default Magento the first thing you’ll see is “Accepting PayPal” on the front page .... I’m asking: HOW ???
IMHO PayPal integration is not the greatest proud of Magento Team. PayPal integration just SUCKS!!!
