Currency Formatting

Currency formatting in Limio

Limio automatically formats prices so they appear correctly for each visitor, following international standards and local conventions.

How formatting works

Limio uses the browser’s built in international number formatting capabilities, based on the Intl.NumberFormat specification. This ensures consistent and accurate display of currency symbols, decimal separators, and number grouping across regions.

Currency selection

The currency shown for a price always comes from the offer currency. This does not change based on the visitor’s location.

Locale selection

The way a price is formatted depends on the visitor’s country, which Limio stores in a browser cookie. The locale determines:

• Where the currency symbol appears

• Whether decimals use a comma or a dot

• Whether thousands use a comma, a dot, or a space

• Any spacing rules around the currency symbol

For example:

• A US visitor seeing a USD price may see $34.00

• A British visitor seeing a USD price may see US$34.00

• A British visitor seeing a GBP price may see £34.00

• A French visitor seeing a GBP price may see 34,00 £

Combined effect

When displaying a price, Limio combines:

• the offer’s currency, and

• the visitor’s locale

to output a correctly formatted amount.

This ensures:

• the price stays in the merchant’s chosen currency

• the formatting respects the visitor's regional reading conventions

Examples

Offer Currency	Visitor Locale	Displayed Example
USD	United States	$34.00
USD	Germany	34,00 $
GBP	United Kingdom	£34.00
GBP	France	34,00 £

Accuracy and standardisation

Limio does not apply custom formatting rules. All currency displays follow the behaviour of Intl.NumberFormat, which is the global JavaScript standard for internationalised number formatting.