WooCommerce UPS COD for Europe – Automatically convert the currency into Euro

This article will cover how WooCommerce UPS Shipping plugin will automatically convert COD for Europe into Euro. We will also see why it is necessary to convert the currency into the Euro by looking at a real-life business case from one of our customers.

UPS COD for Europe

Let us first understand UPS COD (Collect On Delivery) and their Terms. When a customer chooses a COD order he must pay at the time of the delivery. You can let your customer choose the accepted payment methods, this can include checks or money order. If the customer wishes to make payment through check then the check should be made out to the online seller. Cash is accepted everywhere except the united states.

The COD amount will be shown on the shipping label and the same will be collected by UPS, then payment is sent to you by UPS. If the UPS team is not able to collect the cash within three days attempts, the package will be returned.

There are 5 terms of service for UPS COD Europe:

• Where cash is collected, the maximum amount is EUR 500 per receiver per day.
• Where a check is collected, the maximum amount is the local currency equivalent of USD 50,000 per receiver per day.
• UPS will accept a business or personal check, or another negotiable form of payment.
• At the shipper’s request, UPS will accept a cashier’s check or money order only.
• The shipper assumes all risk related to the collection of the payment, including non-payment, insufficient funds, and forgery.

Now let us look at the business case.

Business Case – UPS COD for Europe, Automatically convert the currency into Euro

To understand why we need to convert the currency to the Euro while shipping to Europe let us take a business case.

How to send COD packages using UPS in multiple currencies?  We have clients from Germany – EUR and also from Poland – PLN and
Hungary – HUF etc.

How to achive this?

Here the online seller wants to sell the product in multiple currencies for countries within Europe. The seller for above condiction uses currency swither and displays currencies based on customer location. But he can not use that currency for shipping within Europe, Because while shipping to Europe you can only generate a shipping label for currency Euro only. You can read the UPS message on this:

UPS in EUROPE allows only EUR as main currency, even in countries  like Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary etc. Where EURO is not official currency.

Therefore in these scenarios, the online seller had to manually convert the currencies, you can read the customer statement here.

Can you please find solution for this. It will be very helpful for us as many of our clients are from EU, at the moment we must  add foreign currencies (other than eur) from hand and it takes a lot time because we have to provide equivalent in EUR for foreign currencies for example. Client order 150 RON = +/- 30 EUR.

This is the problem which they are facing. Now let us see how WooCommerce UPS Shipping plugin helps in these scenarios.

Solution using WooCommerce UPS Shipping Plugin

WooCommerce UPS Shipping plugin is a very good plugin to ship the products within Europe. You can print a shipping label and customer invoice within your WoCommerce dashboard.

Coming to our plugin you do not have to convert the covert the currency manually. Our plugin will automatically convert the currencies in these scenarios. Allow me to show you how our plugin performs under this condiction.

If you can see on my store I am selling all the products on Romanian Leu:

Now when I print the shipping label the Amount of COD should be on Euros as shown in the image below:

You can see from the above image that currency is automatically converted into the Euro.

Conclusion

There you go! That’s how  WooCommerce UPS Shipping plugin will help you to automatically convert the currency for COD orders within Europe.

If you have any doubts or need help setting up UPS shipping on your WooCommerce-based website then feel free to Contact PluginHive Customer Support. Our support team should be able to help you out.

Good luck! 😊