Localized Pricing, Adaptive Currency, and PPP

This skill covers three distinct mechanisms for pricing in multiple countries and currencies. Developers often confuse them. This skill disambiguates them, shows how to implement each, and explains their interactions with plan changes, proration, and tax.

When to use this skill

• You need to set fixed prices for specific countries or currencies.
• You want to offer live foreign-exchange conversion at checkout.
• You're considering purchasing power parity discounts for emerging markets.
• You're unsure whether to use localized pricing or adaptive currency.
• You need to handle billing-country and currency resolution, fallback behavior, or plan changes with localized prices.

Core concepts

Three mechanisms, three purposes