FAQs and How-tos
How to bill customers in different currencies
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for companies serving a global customer base, the ability to bill in local currencies is essential amberflo supports this by allowing you to create custom currencies and define exchange rates for any global currency assigning a currency to customers each customer in amberflo has an assigned currency the default system currency is usd, so all backend calculations are performed in usd charges in usd can be converted into the customer's local currency based on their assignment how it works set customer currency navigate to the customer view in the amberflo ui edit the customer's profile to assign a billing currency billing and conversion amberflo generates the invoice amount in usd the invoice is sent to stripe , which converts the amount to the customer’s assigned currency charges the customer's payment method accordingly defining a custom currency and conversion table access the custom currency page go to the ‘custom currency’ view under the pricing section in the amberflo console create a custom currency provide a name and abbreviation for your custom currency define an exchange rate between your custom currency and usd (amberflo’s base currency) activate the custom currency use the toggle to activate your new custom currency once active, amberflo will calculate rates and invoices in terms of your custom currency set up a conversion table click on ‘setup conversion table’ after creating your custom currency add rows for each local currency you want to support define the conversion rate between your custom currency and each local currency currency visibility in invoices once everything is activated, amberflo will calculate invoices in your custom currency display the converted invoice amount in the customer’s assigned currency based on your conversion table 📘 faqs and how tos docid\ bq14rede1rrwst00mbikx see related from invoicing and payments how to resolve when a customer is issued an invoice but has not yet provided payment information docid\ ramjygdjkdlzdnmpfw1kj how to set up your stripe integration in amberflo docid\ p6cy2livo gyeqjrukwo2 how to streamline/automate usage based billing for serverless functions running across multiple cloud envioronments docid\ fejhok8idw46htjkpj3kw
