Currency and formatting
- Currency
- Brazilian Real (BRL)
- Symbol
- R$ — placed before the amount
- Decimal places
- 2
- Formatted example
- R$ 123.456,78
- Thousands separator
- .
- Decimal separator
- ,
- Digit grouping
- threes (3)
- Live rate
- 1 USD = 5.085724252201 BRL (ecb, 2026-07-16)
Tax
Brazil has no single national consumption tax that applies at a checkout. We report this as a null rather than inventing a rate.
Payment methods in Brazil
Roughly ordered by real-world use — not by what a card processor would prefer you offer.
- 01 pix
- 02 card
- 03 boleto
- 04 mercado pago
- 05 apple pay
- 06 google pay
- 07 paypal
Card schemes that work domestically: visa, mastercard, elo, hipercard, amex. 3-D Secure is not standard; strong customer authentication is not legally mandated.
Locale
- Primary
- pt-BR
- Official languages
- Portuguese
- Regional
- Venetian
- Direction
- left-to-right
- Date format
- DD/MM/YYYY
- Measurement
- metric
- GDPR applies
- no
Phone numbers
- Calling code
- +55
- Mobile format
- +55 (XX) XXXXX-XXXX
- Digits
- 10-11
Brazil: common questions
What currency does Brazil use?
Brazil uses the Brazilian Real (BRL), symbol R$. It uses 2 decimal places, formatted as R$ 123.456,78.
How many decimal places does BRL have?
BRL has 2 decimal places. Charging with the wrong number of minor units is a 100× error, so this is worth getting right.
Is there sales tax in Brazil?
Brazil has no single national consumption-tax rate that applies to a checkout.
What payment methods are used in Brazil?
The methods that matter in Brazil, in rough order of use: pix, card, boleto, mercado pago, apple pay, google pay, paypal.
What is the dialling code for Brazil?
Brazil's country calling code is +55. Mobile numbers are formatted +55 (XX) XXXXX-XXXX (10-11 digits after the country code).
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