**Key Benefits:**
- **Enhanced Customer Experience:** Provide clarity and convenience for international shoppers.
- **Real-Time Rates:** Accurate currency conversion with all the data required for acquirers and their merchants to maintain compliance with card network rules.
- **Seamless Integration:** Flexible API endpoints for rate lookup, authorization, and capture.
- **Regulatory Compliance:** Provides the data required for acquirers and merchants to meet and maintain card scheme requirements for disclosure and consent.
Ideal for merchants and payment partners seeking to boost trust and conversion in cross-border commerce.
**Key Features:**
- **Rate Lookup:** Retrieves the most up-to-date exchange rate for eligible cards before authorization.
- **Currency Choice:** Enables the merchant to offer customers the option to select between the merchant''s local currency and their card''s billing currency.
- **Compliance:** Ensures merchants have the data required to adhere to card network regulations; exchange rates, markups, etc.
**Supported Scenarios:**
- Dynamic Currency Conversion when cardholder''s billing currency differs from merchant''s pricing currency.
- Merchant and acquirer must support the cardholder''s billing currency.
**Supported Processors:**
- VPC
- FDI Global
**Compliance & Disclosure:**
Merchants must:
- Adhere to card network rules for Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) transactions.
- Display the converted amount, exchange rate, and markup percentage and other required disclosures.
- Obtain explicit cardholder consent before applying DCC.
- Work with your acquirer to obtain full set of compliance requirements.
**Core API Endpoints:**
**Currency Conversion API**
Returns eligibility and exchange rate details, including:
- exchangeRate
- marginRate
- reconciliationId and Id (for subsequent payment requests)
**Payment Authorization with DCC***
POST /pts/v2/payments
Required fields include:
- orderInformation.amountDetails.currency
- orderInformation.amountDetails.originalCurrency
- orderInformation.amountDetails.originalAmount
- orderInformation.amountDetails.exchangeRate
- currencyConversion.indicator (e.g., 1 = Converted, 2 = Nonconvertible, 3 = Declined)
**Capture with DCC***
POST /pts/v2/payments/{id}/captures
Maps from original authorization and includes original and converted amounts.
**Refund with DCC***
POST /pts/v2/captures/{id}/refunds
Maps from original authorization and includes original and converted amounts.
*Note: DCC is only supported on select processors. Contact your acquirer or account manager for more information.*