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Thanks pc, cannot reply to your comment yet.

In the docs https://stripe.com/docs/api#create_charge there is no reffrence to exchange rates. Do you return a response that shows what the exchange rate was and so how much we will be paid in GBP after charging in USD? (paypal (yuck) do this)

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Hey, charge responses now return a reference to a balance transaction (which represents what you'll actually be paid in).

You can auto expand the balance transaction upon charge creation by passing expand[]=balance_transaction, or you can retrieve the balance transaction directly: https://stripe.com/docs/api#retrieve_balance_transaction.

Would that not bundle all the USD payments for the day into one conversion?

I would be very keen to have an individual conversion on each card payment as that is how our internal database sees the world.

Right -- those are per-charge, not per-day.

Ah, yes. I was distracted by cake in the office and missed that this is a new endpoint on the API. I thought you were talking about the transfers endpoint.

This is exactly what we wanted. Thanks!

Cake in the office is a great thing to be distracted by. (:

Do you disclose anywhere the basis for calculating the FX transaction rate? I'd be interested to know how you do this before actually having a clients transaction convert.

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