Member news: Elavon offers currency solutions for your customers

With Scotland hosting the Commonwealth Games, it’s gearing up to be a bumper year for overseas visitors.

Those visitors expect to be able to pay their way, and for many that includes paying in their own currency.

With currency solutions available for both face-to-face payments and online and telephone bookings, your customers can have the convenience of paying in their home currency.

Solutions tailored for tourism

It’s not just your customers who benefit. You’ll be able to take secure payments in a wide range of currencies, in an instant.

International customers know the exact cost when paying in their home currencies, so the purchase is easy to recognise on their card statement. This means fewer fiddly – and expensive – chargebacks for you.

Pick the service that’s best for your business:

Dynamic Currency Conversion

DCC makes instant exchange-rate calculations at the point of sale, so international customers can see prices and pay in their home currency – in person or online. Plus you earn a rebate from every transaction completed in their home currency. A DCC-enabled POS device

recognises where a card was issued, and gives the customer the option

of which currency to pay in.

Multi-Currency Conversion

With MCC enabled on your website, the IP address of a potential guest or customer would tell your website what currency to display, meaning there are no nasty surprises at the point of payment, leading to a lower rate of cart abandonment.

How does currency conversion work?

1. Select the service for you

Are you in the hospitality business or is your bricks-and-mortar shop in a tourist hotspot? Then DCC is for you. If your online business sells to customers across the globe, opt for MCC.

2. Convert at POS or display online

With DCC, in-person customers can pay in their home currencies when they’re at the checkout. With MCC, online shoppers browsing your site see prices displayed in their own currencies.

3. Swift, simple sales

DCC lets customers pay at the till in their own currencies. With MCC, your online shoppers pay in their local currencies.

And you can be funded in one of several currencies so if you have overseas suppliers to pay in their currency, you could save yourself exchange rates and fees

If you want talk to Elavon to find out how you can switch payment providers and activate DCC, click here

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