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We went through a similar discussion, we're based in England so the easiest for us would be to charge £ but we went with $ because we figured that: * £ would l
by rlivsey 15y ago
We went through a similar discussion, we're based in England so the easiest for us would be to charge £ but we went with $ because we figured that:
* £ would likely put off Europeans & Americans
* € would likely put off Americans but UK would be more used to it
* $ doesn't put off UK or Europeans as while they may prefer their own currency, they are used to paying in $ for subscription based web services.
Ideally we'd let the user pick their own currency, but having to handle fluctuations & keep constant pricing wasn't something we fancied figuring out for launch. Also more currencies cost more to support.
- thibaut_barrere 15y agoThanks - I think it pretty sums it up, together with the result of the poll. Sidenote but: how did you handle the VAT? I found this documentation: http://docs.recurly.com/advanced/value-added-tax/ http://docs.recurly.com/advanced/value-added-tax/
- rlivsey 15y agoWe haven't sorted out the VAT situation yet, we've not launched the payment process & that's one of the things on my list to sort out before we do! Thanks for the recurly link, we're using Spreedly but I don't think they handle that yet so will probably have to sort that ourselves by having VAT and non-VAT plans & set the customer up with the right one. I've seen some places just absorbing the difference to keep it simpler, so that's an option too.
- thibaut_barrere 15y agoI have a Spreedly starter kit too :) I'm still hesitating a bit on this.