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title: "The bug was not PayPal, it was us throwing away the buyer's currency"
canonical: https://dxdev.com/blog/2026-05-14_currency-not-paypal/
datePublished: 2026-05-14
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A CAD customer paid a sum. Staff saw a sum no label. PayPal had not lost anything. Our capture handler stored the USD settlement and discarded the buyer-currency breakdown. If you only keep settlement, support debugs a ghost of the transaction.