Currencies & timezones

Session adapts to where your venue operates. Prices charge in your local currency, sessions display in your timezone, and tax appears with the right label on receipts. You set this up once during sign-up and can change it any time from settings.

What you can do with it

  • Charge in your local currency. Stripe takes payment in your venue's currency. Customers see prices in the same currency they're charged.

  • Show sessions in your local timezone. A 6pm session displays as 6pm to anyone viewing your booking page from anywhere in the world.

  • Label tax correctly on receipts and reports. Use "VAT", "GST", "Sales tax", "MwSt" - whatever your jurisdiction calls it, at the rate you charge.

Managing your country settings

Changing your country suggests new defaults for currency and timezone. If you've already set those manually, they stay - only the country changes.

Changing your timezone re-labels all existing sessions in the new zone. A 6pm London session becomes a 1pm New York session - same moment in time, new label.

Changing your currency after connecting Stripe shows an inline warning if it disagrees with the currency your Stripe account is set up in. Stripe still charges in its own currency, so a mismatch means customers see one currency but get charged in another. Reconcile in your Stripe dashboard or set the currency back to match.

Tax settings are reporting-only. Your prices remain tax-inclusive; the tax label and rate appear on receipts and CSV exports so your accountant can break out the figures.

What's coming

We're rolling international support out in stages. Live today:

  • Country, currency, timezone and address.

  • Stripe charges in your venue's currency.

  • Customer-facing pages, emails, reports and CSV exports all render in the correct currency.

  • The FX hint on customer pages shows international visitors the converted price in their own currency.

In progress:

  • Automated tax collection. Today you set a rate and label for reporting only. Stripe Tax integration to actually collect, report and remit tax is on the roadmap, especially for multi-state US sales tax and EU VAT.

  • Language & translation: Session is currently English-only, but multi-language support is firmly on the roadmap as our international friends join.

Troubleshooting

My customers see GBP but I'm in another country. Check Settings → Regional settings. If currency is set to "GBP", change it to your local currency. If the change happens after a Stripe connection, you'll see a drift warning - that means your Stripe account is set up for a different country and needs reconciling in Stripe first.

Session times look wrong to my customer. Customers see session times in your venue's timezone, even if their device is in a different one. If a customer reports the wrong time, check your venue timezone in Settings → Regional settings.

Tax line on receipts says VAT but I want "Sales tax". Change the Tax label field in Settings → Regional settings. The change applies to new bookings and new exports. Existing PDF receipts aren't regenerated.

I run a multi-state US venue. Today Session captures a single tax rate per venue, which works if all your sales happen in one state. For multi-state sales you'll need to handle tax externally until Stripe Tax integration lands.