Currency symbol in welcome email

My site accepts payment in USD, GBP or EUR. I have a PayPal Proform set up for each of these. However, although the correct amount is charged in the correct currency, the welcome email to the user always uses the dollar sign for the currency. So for example I get:

Thanks Blahdeblah! Your membership has been approved.

Join [MySite] for only £9.99

Subscr. ID: [subscr_id]
Charges today: $9.99
Recurring charges: $9.99 / yearly

Your Username/Password will arrive shortly, in a separate email. If you have any
trouble, please feel free to contact us.

Best Regards,
[MySite]

How can I fix it so that the correct currency symbol is used?

The $ symbol is set in s2Member > PayPal Options > Signup Confirmation Email:

Subscr. ID: %%subscr_id%%
Charges today: $%%initial%%
Recurring charges: $%%recurring/regular_cycle%%

I haven’t yet found a way to change it on-the-fly so the easiest option would be to remove the currency symbol all together.

I am not a programmer but two ideas to try occur to me:

Idea 1) use HTML code for Pound Sterling sign “£” or “£” in the S2Member code referenced above.
Idea 2) use GBP instead of the $ in the S2Member code referenced above.

As in ” Recurring charges: £%%recurring/regular_cycle%%”
or
” Recurring charges: GBP%%recurring/regular_cycle%%”

Maybe one of these will work.

Idea 1) use HTML code for Pound Sterling sign “£” or “£” in the S2Member code referenced above.
Idea 2) use GBP instead of the $ in the S2Member code referenced above.

Both of those will work, but Robin wants it to automatically change to USD, GBP or EUR based on the customer’s location.

I haven’t watched it but have you tried @Bruce’s video on Advanced Email Editing? That might have your answer?

Thanks, the PHP code in the advanced email editing is what I needed. I’ve done this:

<?php 
$amount = $paypal["mc_amount3"];
if ($paypal["mc_currency"] == "GBP") {
$symbol = "£";
} else if ($paypal["mc_currency"] == "USD") {
$symbol = "$";
} else if ($paypal["mc_currency"] == "EUR") {
$symbol = "€";
}

$charge = $symbol.$amount;

?>

which seems to work nicely.

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by  Robin Miller.