Currency not exported to Kashflow

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.6.1
-- Joomla version -- : 3.4.8
-- PHP version -- : 5.6.17

As the instigator of this integration I've taken rather a long time to start using it - sorry about that. But now that I've actually got it working, I'm seeing some shortcomings:

1) The invoice created in Kashflow is in the default Kashflow currency instead of the actual transaction currency as performed in Hikashop. We use USD, EUR and GBP so it would be much nicer if the currency was correctly set.

2) No payment is recorded in Kashflow. This is a pain because I have to go back and add payments manually even though the order confirmation process has already checked the existence of a payment. We use PayPal and Stripe as our primary payment options so it would be really nice to have the corresponding payment added to Kashflow so the whole thing updates automatically.

Those are the two main gripes.

Also interesting is the whole way this thing came to light. I was mostly updating my books through Kashflow's PayPal import and doing the Stripe transaction by hand. However once we became VAT-registered early this year I saw that PayPal wasn't getting the VAT info and although Hikashop was handling everything properly from the VAT point of view, Kashflow was making invoices without VAT even though VAT had been charged.

Personally I'm not really interested in giving PayPal all my data, I just want them to process payments - hence the move to the Kashflow integration which promises better handling of Stripe payments too. It just needs a bit more work to do the job completely i.e. properly collect all VAT and currency info and log the payments. Do you think this can be added to the development plan, or can you give me pointers to add this in myself?

Best regards

Conrad

Thanks Nicolas,

I'll give those a try and get back to you. Give me a day or two.

Conrad

Hi Nicolas,

I tried both those and they broke the site - blank page on front end, Hikashop blank at back-end. So trying step-by-step I can report that mod 1 does not cause the currency to be set correctly. Invoice still stubbornly in GPB when I sell in Euros.

Onwards to step 2 now. But for me even getting the currency right would be a step forward.

Conrad

Looking at the KashFlow SOAP API docs it looks like they are expecting a 3-letter currency code like USD, GBP, EUR etc. so casting the output to an int won't help. However removing that didn't change anything. Anyway the integration is part of Hikashop now so maybe we should get it working. If I can help in any way please let me know.

C

Hi Nicolas,

Using J!Dump I confirmed that once the (int) cast is removed the currency code is a 3-letter code as KashFlow docs suggest. However, KashFlow does not apply the information to the invoice. So I've taken up the mystery with them and I'll let you know what they reply.

Conrad

Hi Nicolas,

I'm still trying to get this working right and the Kashflow support guy isn't making sense - you are! If we have to specify the exchange rate then as you rightly say it has to be the rate between the currency selected by the customer in Hikashop and the currency used in Kashflow accounts. Hikashop doesn't know what that currency is, so it would have to be a preference setting in the HS KF plugin. Could you do this and send the current exchange rate? Just to get it working.

I'd fully agree that Kashflow should really retrieve and apply the exchange rate but their guy doesn't seem to get it.

Thanks

Conrad

Thank you Nicolas,

I was not impressed by the quality of support from them and I've flagged that to their customer service. They could do better.
I'll let you know how it goes.

Conrad