Hi everybody!

Just back from a last minute break in sunny Spain hence my absence from this thread. My has this thread been busy! I'll try to get round to responding as best I can to the unresolved issues over the next few days.

I'll answer Ryk first because its easy.

WorldPay will only accept transacions in currencies that your account is set up to accept. When your account is originally set up by WorldPay this will be in the currency that you have nominated - in your case Sterling. If you require to make transactions in any other currency you will need to ask WorldPay to set these currencies up for you in your account. There is a set up fee charged for each additional currency you request. I think this is around £50 per currency but best check this with WorldPay.

You need to be sure that offering a particular currency will generate sufficient extra business to justify the initial outlay. Another thing to bear in mind is that if you allow transactions in, for example, US dollars the proceeds of any sale in Dollars will be deposited into your account in your home bank accounts currency ie Sterling. You, the merchant, pay the currency conversion fees from US Dollars to Sterling. If you only offer transactions in Sterling then the customer's credit card issuer charges the customer the currency conversion fees when charging the Sterling transaction to his account in Dollars.

Tricky one to evaluate.

Hope this helps,

Alan