Stripe Currency - Are all amounts in cents / 100ths, or does it depend on currency?

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jcampbell1 picture jcampbell1 · Feb 10, 2016 · Viewed 11.2k times · Source

I am currently writing the code to migrate to Stripe from a different payment processor.

I know that when the currency is USD, stripe uses cents. So stripe(1000 USD) == $10.00. Same for Euros I assume stripe(1000 EUR) == € 10.00.

But what about JPY? 100 JPY is roughly $1. So do I send Stripe 10000 JPY to get 100 Yen ~= $1. Do I send Stripe 100 JPY to get 100 Yen ~= $1?

Is there a special divisor? Is everything denominated in 100/ths for any currency? I can't find an answer in the documentation, and I don't want to charge Japanese people $0.1 or $1000 for a $10 USD service.

How is AED denominated. They use 1/10ths as the smallest unit / coinage. Should I multiply by 10?

Answer

Matthew Arkin picture Matthew Arkin · Feb 10, 2016

All amounts are in the "smallest common currency unit". While in most places this would be cents, in Japan there is no decimal for their currency so amount=1 (1 JPY), since ¥1 is the smallest currency unit.

Additional info can be found at this doc.

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