BV

Regional Billing does not = Seeing the price in Euros.
Whether Regional Billing is activated or not you can bill in Euros.

Too be precise CCBill refers to this as "Multi Currency Form Functionality". This is OLD news, going on 2 years.


Posted January 18th, 2007 18:12:42, by CCBill Management
ANNOUNCING CCBILL MULTI-CURRENCY FORM FUNCTIONALITY

We are happy to announce the limited release of our new Multi-Currency Form Functionality. With CCBill Multi-Currency, your global customers who reach your subscription signup page will be offered the opportunity to choose their currency of choice from the following options:

United States Dollars (USD)

Australian dollars (AUD)
Canadian Dollars (CAD)
British Pounds (£)
Japanese Yen (¥)
European Union (Euros)
For today's limited release, you have the opportunity to get a jump start and offer this service on your forms prior to our full release on Monday, January 22nd. To take advantage of the today's release and to initiate the use of Multi-Currency form functionality please go to the Form Options area of System5 at:

TOOLS>Account Maintenance>Account Admin>Choose Sub-Account>Form Admin> Choose Form>Layout>Form Options>Multi-Currency

Here you can choose the way in which Currency options are displayed on your forms, including these display options:

1) Inline Select: Displays Currency and Country Flag Icons to the Consumer (DEFAULT SETTING)

2) Window Select: Consumers Click on a Select button which pops up the Currency and Country Flag Icons

3) Show All Currencies: Lists all Currency pricing options in a handy drop-down menu.

IMPORTANT: When this feature is released in full on Monday, January 22nd, Multi-Currency will automatically be set as enabled on all Forms. If you wish to "opt out" of this service, please contact Client Support directly.

Important Consumer Usage Note: Currency conversions are performed at the time of the authorization. When Customers view their recurring subscriptions in the CCBill Subscription Look up system, the "Next Billing Amount" displayed will not be completely accurate until the time of their rebill authorization, as currency exchange rates may vary at any given time.

Important Client Payout Note: When the Multi-Currency feature is utilized for the subscription payment, transactions will continue to be paid to Clients in United States Dollars (USD).

If you have any questions regarding this Multi-Currency feature, or other questions regarding CCBill services and solutions, our Client Support team is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to assist you. They can be reached toll free at 800.510.2859 or by email at [email protected].

Thank you,

CCBill Management


This gave foriegn users a choice, buyt they had to click on it.

Later CCBill made it automatic with GEOIP:

Posted October 23rd, 2007 15:17:51, by CCBill Management
ANNOUNCING: CCBILL GEO IP FORM FUNCTIONALITY

We are proud to announce that on Monday, October 29th, 2007, the CCBill Geo IP Forms are going live! With CCBill Geo IP Forms, all subscription sign-up forms are localized for the consumer, ensuring that these forms are filled out with the consumer?s correct location data as well as displaying the form in the native language of the country where the consumer is located.

CONSUMER EXPERIENCE:
When a consumer signs up on your Web site, the country in which the consumer is located will be automatically detected and the sign-up form displayed accordingly. For example, if a consumer is located in France, the language of the form will be French, pricing will be displayed in Euros and the consumer?s country will be automatically set to France. The same holds true for all other countries.

Because the type of currency is set based on consumer location, the consumer will not be charged currency conversion fees, provided they sign up using the native currency of their bank. In this case, the price they see on the form is exactly the price they are charged. If the consumer signs up using a form of currency that is not their bank?s native currency, they may be still charged a conversion fee.

Note: This system will only affect settings that are not already passed in to the sign-up form. For example, if you pass in the consumer?s country as Germany, that setting will be used instead of the automatic Geo IP detection.

As of Monday's launch, the Geo IP Forms system will be active on all Client subaccounts, so no additional setup is required. If you wish to deactivate the system for all or specific subaccounts, please contact Client Support at [email protected].

If there are any other questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Client Support.

Thank you,

CCBill Management


All of these features above are default standard automatic whatever. You don't need to opt in.

Then now comes "Regional Pricing":

Posted April 3rd, 2008 16:28:20, by CCBill Management
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING CCBILL REGIONAL PRICING

We are very excited to announce the initial release of our new CCBill Regional Pricing. This release will offer you the ability to use the CCBill Recommended Settings tool set, and sets the learning stage for the Advanced Regional Pricing tools, which will release later this month.

To find the Regional Pricing feature, go to your WebAdmin, click on Tools, then choose the Account Maintenance tab, and go to the Account Admin.

To enable the Regional Pricing feature on all your sub-accounts click ?Main Account Admin.? To enable the feature for individual sub-accounts click ?Sub-account Admin.?

On the Account/Sub-account screen, you will find the Regional Pricing ? CCBill Recommended pane. Here you can view the conversion for each price point, see what the final price will be based on the conversion, and also see the additional ?revenue realized? at each price point.

To enable CCBill?s Recommended Settings for Regional Pricing, simply check the ?opt-in? box and then select ?Accept Regional Pricing.?

If you have any questions, regarding Regional Pricing or any other CCBill feature, please feel free to contact [email protected].

In addition, we are currently accepting beta clients for the testing of the Advanced tool set for the Regional Pricing feature. If you are interested in participating on this beta test, please contact [email protected].

Many thanks for your attention to this matter.

CCBill Management


Now they don't give a very detailed description here, but it is "opt in", it's your choice

The only thing regional pricing does is raise the price for selected countries that their money is worth more than ours.

For years and years the only money that was worth more than ours was the British Pound, but now the Euro

Anyways Regional Pricing just jacks up their price. That's all it does.

Just so happens that CCBills default recommended setting for a 29.95 USD membership is 29.95 Euros (just coincidence) :-)

This feature has nothing to do with billing in Euros as I have explained above.
It's about billing Euro customers more (or less) like Japan.

On a 29.95 USD membership with Regional Pricing on, this is how much more or less you make on each of the lised countries.


U.K.
0.7000000 £20.96 $9.82
Japan
110.0000000 ¥3294 $-0.44
Europe
1.0000000 ?29.95 $15.40
Canada
1.1000000 $32.95 $1.06
Australia
1.2000000 $35.94 $3.21


I might try it, but no one Europeans in this thread said it was ok to use regional pricing on their hosting bill? Why not? Because you guys are getting a good deal at the USD price! and are lovin it!

Cheers,
BV