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Multi-currency

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

adjectiveCommon term

In e-commerce, multi-currency means: Describes a store or system that shows prices and accepts payments in several currencies, so customers can shop in their own money.

In Turkish: çoklu para birimi, çok dövizli

How it is used

Used in cross-border selling: multi-currency pricing, checkout or support. Teams decide whether to convert prices automatically or set fixed local prices, and how to round them, such as 49.90 euros.

Example sentences

  1. Multi-currency checkout increased our orders from Switzerland and Sweden.

  2. Our multi-currency prices update once a week, not every day.

Common collocations

  • multi-currency pricing
  • multi-currency checkout
  • local currency
  • currency conversion
  • localizationAdapting a store for a particular country, including language, currency, sizes, units, payment methods, legal texts and cultural details, not only translating the words.
  • cross-border e-commerceSelling products online to customers in other countries, which brings extra work such as customs, international shipping, currencies and local languages.
  • payment gatewayA service that securely sends a customer's card or other payment details from the online store to the banks and returns whether the payment is approved.
  • landed costThe full cost of getting a product to its destination: the product price plus shipping, insurance, customs duty, taxes and other fees.

More terms: Cross-Border Sales

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