Currency, tax and language

Open Shop settings, then Region and taxes.

Currency

Pick your Currency from the list. A shop sells in one currency, and every price, the checkout and the receipts use it. Pick the one your Stripe account takes payments in.

Your prices keep the same numbers: changing from Singapore dollars to Hong Kong dollars does not turn 20.00 into something else, so check your prices afterwards. A note on the page tells you how many prices this affects. Currencies with no cents, such as the Japanese yen and the Korean won, take whole numbers: a price of 500 is 500 yen.

After your first real order the currency is locked, because past orders would no longer add up. A pay-at-pickup or bank-transfer order counts as real, even from a test buyer, because nothing is paid on Stripe's page. Test card payments do not lock it, and neither does an order you cancelled before it was paid. To sell in another currency after that, start a second shop on another site.

Stripe has a smallest card payment for each currency (for example S$0.50 or HK$4.00). A basket below it cannot be paid by card, and the buyer is told to add something.

Tax

Switch tax on, then set:

• the Tax name shown on receipts: GST, VAT, SST, Sales tax or your own word (up to 20 characters),
• the Rate (%),
• your Tax registration number, if you have one. A shop that calls its tax GST must give it, or switch GST off,
• Prices include the tax, or leave that switch off to add the tax on top.

If your prices include tax, the buyer pays the price they see and the receipt shows how much of the total was tax.

If tax is added on top, the buyer sees it as its own line before paying, for example "VAT (20%)", and the card payment is for the full amount, tax included.

The receipt uses your own label, for example VAT, and your registration number if you gave one. Tax is shown once: as its own line when it is added on top, or as a note saying how much of the total it is when it is included.

Language

Shop language sets the words buyers see on the buttons, at checkout and on the order page: English, Traditional Chinese, or follow the language of your site. Receipts and emails are in English for now.

Time zone

Time zone decides what "today" is when working out the earliest day a buyer can choose. It starts at Singapore and Hong Kong time.

Amounts in your orders are always whole numbers of the smallest unit (cents, or whole yen and won), so totals stay exact.