Understand customer currency exchange rates for purchases
Use this article to learn more about currency exhange rates for your Azure Marketplace purchases.
Marketplace purchasing and Azure alignment
Purchases through the marketplace align to Azure billing for customers with either a Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) or an Enterprise Agreement (EA). You can also buy directly with your credit card or activate your Azure subscription for the solution you're buying for through a Microsoft Online Services Program. For credit card purchasing through Microsoft AppSource, see this article.
Marketplace-supported currencies
The marketplace supports 16 currencies for the partner solutions available in the catalog. We use London closing spot rates that are captured in the two business days before the last business day of the previous month end.
Your billing currency refers to the currency specified in your organization's customer agreement (for customers with either an EA or MCA). The legal address that your organization provided at the time of signing up for your account determines your billing geography and currency.
Marketplace offers are displayed in local market currency. If the local market currency doesn't match your billing currency, the offer is converted to the billing currency at the time of invoicing. The exchange rate for each payment is the rate in effect during the month in which the charge was incurred.
See the table below to understand what currency is supported for your billing address. Separate agreements such as Microsoft Azure consumption commitments (MACCs) can result in differences between market currency and billing currency. Regions not listed aren't supported by the marketplace.
| Currency | Marketplace Supported Regions |
|---|---|
| USD | Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Macau, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Oman, Pakistan, Palestinian Authority, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| EUR | Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Vatican City |
| AUD | Australia, Fiji |
| BRL | Brazil* |
| CAD | Canada |
| DKK | Denmark, Faroe Islands |
| INR | India |
| JPY | Japan |
| KRW | South Korea** |
| NZD | New Zealand |
| NOK | Norway |
| RUB | Russia*** |
| SEK | Sweden |
| CHF | Switzerland |
| TWD | Taiwan |
| GBP | United Kingdom |
China: Free and Bring-your-own-license Virtual Machines only. Paid transactions and other offer types are supported by Azure but not by the marketplace.
* USD for customers using Cloud Solution Providers
** Free, Bring-your-own-license, and credit card transactions only
*** Only existing partners and customers can use paid transactions
Monthly foreign exchange rates
Microsoft uses a monthly foreign exchange rate. For the current month, the rate is the WM/Refinitiv London spot closing rate as of 4:00 pm, two business days before the last business day of the previous month's end from Refinitiv. For example, 8/29 is the September P&L rate.
Find the same rates Microsoft uses on the Financial Times site
Microsoft uses the WM/Refinitiv rates that publish daily in the Financial Times. To view the rates, use these steps:
- Register for free at Markets data.
- Scroll to Daily reports from the Financial Times print edition, select a date, and download the PDF for World Markets at a Glance.
Note
The date you select is the day the newspaper published. The rates you then download are from one day earlier. So, for example, Friday's edition of the Financial Times contains Thursday's rates.
What are WM/Refinitiv rates?
WM/Refinitiv rates are the rates reported by WM/Refinitiv as of the London close of 4:00 pm each day. For more information, see Refinitiv financial data. The MS treasury team sources this site at Corporate Finance.