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delicate meteorBOT Mar 9, 2023, 9:20 PM

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brittle lagoon Mar 9, 2023, 9:21 PM

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Hi 👋

I'm not sure what you mean here. Until the customer pays the invoice in a specific currency, Stripe doesn't know what to convert it to. Unfortunately this isn't something you can configure.

modest root Mar 9, 2023, 9:23 PM

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Yeah, I understand. In the past, we were using a service called octobat (integrated with Stripe) for issuing invoices. Octobat allowed to set a conversion (from USD to Euros in our case).

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The point is that we only can bill in USD, but a client asks for a USD-Euro conversion in the invoices.

brittle lagoon Mar 9, 2023, 9:25 PM

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So the prices are represented in Euros?

modest root Mar 9, 2023, 9:28 PM

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No, in USD. and they ask for somethin similar to this

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Prices in dollars and including a conversion to euros.

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My only idea is update the invoice object, including free text with the conversion in the footer or in the memo field. But it sounds horrible to me ...

brittle lagoon Mar 9, 2023, 9:34 PM

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I can understand that. And are you using Prices with multiple currencies or just USD? https://stripe.com/docs/products-prices/pricing-models#multicurrency

modest root Mar 9, 2023, 9:34 PM

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Hum, just USD.

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I asked to Stripe Support and they didn't mention anything about multicurrency ...

brittle lagoon Mar 9, 2023, 9:37 PM

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I haven't had a chance to test it but I'm not sure this would create the text rendering you are looking for, based on this section about Invoices

When you create an Invoice Item, use the currency parameter to tell the Invoice Item which of the multi-currency Price’s currencies to use.

Note, you must explicitly pass the currency parameter even if it’s the same as the Customer’s default currency. If you omit the currency parameter, multi-currency Prices won’t work.

modest root Mar 9, 2023, 9:38 PM

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At least is something to investigate ...

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I think it will work for us to use several currencies and choose the currency to issue the invoice with

brittle lagoon Mar 9, 2023, 9:39 PM

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Then that may be a valid option for your business.

modest root Mar 9, 2023, 9:41 PM

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But I guess this involve to set fixed prices in the additional currency youwant (Euros in our case). It won't be a "conversion", it will be having two static options and choosing one. And the conversion that we might apply could not be valid the day after ...

brittle lagoon Mar 9, 2023, 9:42 PM

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That is true so this might be much more work than expected.

modest root Mar 9, 2023, 9:45 PM

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Yeah, I was right, just if you were curious

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Anyway, I'll take a deeper look.

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I appreciate a lot your help. Many thanks.

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