Adaptive Pricing
Learn how to use Adaptive Pricing to allow customers to pay in their local currency.
Adaptive Pricing lets your customers pay in their local currency in more than 150 countries.
With Adaptive Pricing, Stripe automatically calculates the localized price and handles all currency conversion. The presentment currency is inferred from the buyer’s public IP address. Enabling Adaptive Pricing can increase conversion rates from global buyers, and businesses have had on average a 17% increase in international revenue.
Use Adaptive Pricing to:
- Display pricing in local currencies based on location
- Calculate prices in real-time using an exchange rate guaranteed for 24 hours
- Unlock payment methods that require local currency
- Facilitate your compliance when presenting supported currencies
Enable Adaptive Pricing
Enable Adaptive Pricing in your payment settings. You can enable Adaptive Pricing in test mode and live mode. Disabling Adaptive Pricing doesn’t affect Checkout Sessions that have already been converted.
Adaptive Pricing works with Checkout, Payment Links, pricing tables, and local payment methods.
Beta
If you’re interested in using Adaptive Pricing with the Payment Element, please contact elements-adaptive-pricing-beta@stripe.com.
Event destinations and reporting
Caution
Enabling Adaptive Pricing can affect some parts of your integration, such as event destinations and reporting. Review your integration to make sure any event destinations can handle PaymentIntent objects with local currencies.
- Use the currency_conversion hash on the Checkout Session object to determine what your customer would have paid in the default currency.
- Use the BalanceTransactions API to determine how much you receive after fees.
Supported currencies
Merchants in supported regions can automatically convert prices to the local currencies of their customers in the following markets:
North America
South America
Europe
Asia
Oceania
Africa
Local payment methods
You can configure which payment methods you accept in your payment methods settings.
Adaptive Pricing can increase usage of local payment methods significantly (up to 6.5x on some merchants) by ensuring customers have the option to pay in their currency and with payment methods most relevant to them. As an example, iDEAL is used by 70% of all e-commerce transactions in the Netherlands, but only works with EUR.
Adaptive Pricing enables the following payment methods:
- Alipay
- Bancontact
- BLIK
- Canadian pre-authorized debit
- EPS
- iDEAL
- PayPal
- P24
- SEPA Debit
- Sofort
- Swish
- WeChat Pay
Restrictions
Adaptive Pricing does not yet work with Connect or Elements.
Additionally, Adaptive Pricing requires the currency for your prices to be the same as your default settlement currency. Prices automatically convert during checkout. This applies to prices you create and reference with a price ID and prices you create inline with price_data when you create a Checkout Session.
Adaptive Pricing does not apply for Checkout Sessions that:
- Contain explicitly defined manual currency prices.
- Are in
subscription
mode. - Use Connect parameters like
application_
,fee_ amount on_
, andbehalf_ of transfer_
.data - Use capture_method as
manual
. - Set the currency value on creation.
- Present the customer a local currency that is also configured as a settlement currency. For example, suppose an account settles in both
EUR
andGBP
. If they price inEUR
, customers with local currencyGBP
don’t see Adaptive Pricing. Customers with a local currency other thanEUR
orGBP
, such asJPY
, see Adaptive Pricing.
In Sessions that aren’t supported by Adaptive Pricing, Checkout presents prices in the original currency that you’ve set your prices in.
Pricing
- You pay 0%
- Your buyers pay 2–4%
Details: You (the business) don’t directly pay any additional fees for Adaptive Pricing, as all such fees are paid for by your customers. Stripe applies a conversion fee of between 2–4% to the exchange rate you present to your customers, increasing their purchase price by a corresponding amount. The fee applied is determined by Stripe and varies for the purposes of increasing customer conversion. Stripe typically charges a fee of 4% for orders under 500 USD, 3% for 500–1,500 USD, and 2% for orders over 1,500 USD. For detailed information about current Stripe fees, see our pricing page.
Exchange rate
Stripe uses the mid-market exchange rate and applies a fee to guarantee the rate for the duration of the Checkout Session (up to 24 hours) through settlement. If the exchange rate changes by more than 5% in that time, Stripe might use the updated exchange rate to calculate your payout.
Learn more about how Stripe handles currency conversions and Adaptive Pricing fees.
Refunds
Stripe pays out refunds in the currency your customer pays in using the latest Stripe-provided exchange rate. This means that you might pay more or less to cover the refund depending on how the exchange rate changes.
Example refund
We ignore Stripe fees in this example for simplicity. Suppose:
- You’re a US business that uses Checkout to sell a product for 100 USD and have activated Adaptive Pricing.
- A customer in Canada views your Checkout page, sees the localized price of 137 CAD at an exchange rate of 1.37 CAD per 1 USD, and completes the purchase.
- Stripe processes the payment, converting the 137 CAD to 100 USD to pay you in your settlement currency.
- Later, when the exchange rate has changed to 1.40 CAD per 1 USD, you issue a full refund to the customer.
- Stripe deducts 97.86 USD from your account, exchanging it at 1.40 CAD per 1 USD to pay out the 137 CAD refund.
Learn more about how Stripe helps you manage refunds.
Event destinations and reporting
Depending on the user-selected currency, both the Checkout Session and the underlying PaymentIntent objects update automatically to reflect the selected currency and amount. After a user pays in local currency, the Checkout Session object’s currency and total amount is in local currency and contains a currency_
hash to reflect what the user would have paid in the default currency. Learn more about what’s deposited in your account after fees.
The checkout.session.completed event contains a currency_
hash that includes the amount_
and amount_
in the source_
. The amounts reflect what your customer would have paid in the source currency.
{ "id":
, "object": "event", "type": "checkout.session.completed", "data": { "object": { "id":'{{EVENT_ID}}', "object": "checkout.session", "currency": "cad", "amount_total": 2055, "amount_subtotal": 2055, "currency_conversion": { "amount_subtotal": 1500, "amount_total": 1500, "source_currency": "usd", "fx_rate": "1.37" } } } }'{{SESSION_ID}}'
Testing
To test local currency presentment for Checkout, Payment Links, and the pricing table, pass in a location-formatted customer email that includes a suffix in a +location_
format in the local part of the email. XX
must be a valid two-letter ISO country code.
For example, to test currency presentment for a customer in France, pass in an email like test+location_
.
When you visit the URL for a Checkout Session, Payment Link, or pricing table created with a location-formatted email, you see the same currency as a customer does in the specified country.
Testing Checkout
When you create a Checkout Session, pass the location-formatted email as customer_email to simulate Checkout from a particular country.
You can also create a Customer and specify their email that contains the +location_
suffix. Stripe test cards work as usual.
When it’s possible to present the customer’s local currency in Checkout, the Checkout Session object changes. Fields like currency
, payment_
, and amount_
reflect the local currency and price.
Testing Payment Links
For Payment Links, pass the location-formatted email as the prefilled_
URL parameter to test currency presentment for customers in different countries.
Testing Pricing table
For the pricing table, pass the location-formatted email as the customer-email attribute to test currency presentment for customers in different countries.
See our support page for more information.