Manual currency prices
Present local currencies to customers with manual currency prices.
Stripe supports manually defining prices in different currencies when creating products. However, Stripe recommends leveraging Adaptive Pricing instead of manual currency prices to reduce currency exchange rate fluctuation risk and to automatically enable support for 50+ local currencies.
Use manual currency prices over Adaptive Pricing when:
- Adaptive Pricing isn’t yet supported for your business or Checkout configuration (reach out to adaptive-pricing-beta@stripe.com for beta inquiries).
- You’re supporting a region where you’re comfortable taking on fluctuations in the currency’s exchange rate.
Manually defined multi-currency prices override Adaptive Pricing for those currencies, even if it’s enabled.
Add multiple currencies to a price
You can manually add multiple currencies to a Price using the Dashboard or the API.
Dashboard
- Navigate to a product in the Dashboard.
- Click +Add another price to create a new price.
- Fill in the price and select a currency. This first currency is the price’s default currency. Make sure all of your prices have the same default currency.
- Click +Add a price by currency to search and select from supported currencies, adding them to your price.
- Use the multi-currency price you created by passing its ID into line items when you create a Checkout Session.
Prices API
Add multiple currencies to a Price by specifying currency_
when using the Prices API.
In this example, the Price is created in USD, with additional currency options in EUR and JPY.
Local payment methods
Checkout and Payment Links present customers with popular payment methods compatible with their local currencies.
For example, for customers located in the Netherlands, Checkout and Payment Links convert prices to EUR and also present popular Dutch payment methods like iDEAL.
You can configure which payment methods you accept in your payment methods settings.
Pricing tables
Manual currency prices also work with pricing tables. To render local currencies to customers viewing your pricing table, all of the pricing table’s Prices must include the customer’s local currency in their currency_
. They must also include a tax_
for the given currency if you’re using Stripe Tax.
Supported integrations
Checkout automatically presents the local currency to customers if all of the following are true:
- The Checkout Session’s prices, shipping rates, and discounts have the relevant currency in their
currency_
.options - If a price on the Checkout Session has an upsell, the upsell’s price has the relevant currency in its
currency_
.options - For a Checkout Session using Stripe Tax, the
tax_
on the Checkout Session is specified for the relevant currency for all of the Checkout Session’s prices, shipping rates, and discounts.behavior - You didn’t specify a currency during Checkout Session creation.
If Checkout can’t localize the currency because the relevant currency option or tax_
is missing, the Session presents to the customer in the default currency. The default currency must be the same across all prices, shipping rates, and discounts.
Restrictions
Price localization isn’t available for Checkout Sessions that:
- Use manual tax rates.
- Use
payment_
orintent_ data. application_ fee_ amount payment_
.intent_ data. transfer_ data. amount
Fees
Stripe’s standard transaction fees apply to automatically converted transactions:
- Cards or payment methods fee
- International cards or payment methods fee (if applicable)
- Currency conversion fee
See the pricing page for more details about these fees.
Specify a currency
When you use multi-currency Prices in a Session, Checkout automatically handles currency localization for your customers. However, you can override this behavior by specifying a currency when you create the Checkout Session.
In this example, the Checkout Session’s currency is always EUR (eur
) regardless of the customer’s location.
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 such as 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.