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This section describes the prerequisites, limitations, and acquirer-specific best practices of Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC), plus how to test your integration before going live.

Requirements

Contact your acquirer to register for this feature. Contact your account representative and customer service to have your account configured to use this feature.

You must meet the payment card company rules for DCC. This includes:

• Providing your customers with detailed receipts that show the amount in the local pricing currency, the amount in the DCC billing currency, the exchange rate used to convert the order amount, and the DCC markup.
• Requiring your customers to sign an acknowledgement that they had the choice to pay in the local pricing currency or their card's billing currency, that their choice is final, and that they understand the currency conversion service is offered by you and not by Visa.
• Fulfilling any other requirements set by your acquirer.

Limitations

When you use DCC for an order, you cannot split the order into multiple shipments.

cannot perform interchange optimization for orders that use DCC.

Do not request a combination of these services in the same DCC API request:

• Authorization
• Capture
• Credit

Testing

Before you go live with DCC, you should test your integration in our sandbox environment using our DCC simulator. See DCC Simulator Outcomes for more details.

In order to use the sandbox environment for DCC cases, you must have your account configured for DCC service. Contact your representative for more information.

Next steps

Once your account is configured and you have tested your integration, review the API reference and use cases:

• DCC Credit Card Transaction Flow — the complete DCC transaction sequence
• DCC Offer — request the offer to determine DCC eligibility and get exchange rate
• DCC Authorization — authorize a DCC payment
• DCC Capture — capture an authorized DCC transaction
• DCC Refund — refund a captured DCC transaction