Global Billing

To realize the full potential of doing business online, merchants must be ready and able to accept new users regardless of their location, language, or currency. Reaching a global audience brings up the challenges of billing in local currency, sending communications in local languages, and accepting payment types popular in that particular region. Vindicia currently helps merchants bill for their products and services in over 200 countries and territories around the globe.

Payment Methods

Payment types vary enormously as you move from country to country. There are a myriad of payment methods available to merchants and consumers - from credit and debit cards, to Solo and Maestro, ACH, PayPal, mobile phone payments and country specific payment methods such as Boleto Bancário in Brazil - not to mention new ones that seem to appear daily.

When venturing into a new region, it is important to fully understand which payment methods are the most popular - and the most profitable - in that market. Vindicia combines industry-leading knowledge of the payment types available with the experience of billing worldwide on behalf of our global network of merchants to create a quick and easy way to expand into new markets.

Currencies and Sales Tax

Customers want to see prices in their local currency, so it is important to bill customers in the currency used in their region. Asking them to work out a conversion is an unnecessary barrier that a robust billing system eliminates. Calculating and collecting applicable sales tax is another challenge of global business. With Vindicia's billing system, our merchants have the ability to bill in local currency, correctly calculate and apply any required sales tax, and settle in your preferred currency (in partnership with your payment processor).

Communicating in the Right Language

Messages around billing must be very specific and clear to understand. Because of this, Vindicia recommends that our merchants send communications out in the preferred languages of their customers. Vindicia's configurable communication templates currently support over 20 languages for our merchants today, and can include customer-specific information including pertinent up-sell and cross-sell invitations.

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