Currency and formatting
- Currency
- Colombian Peso (COP)
- Symbol
- $ — placed before the amount
- Decimal places
- 2
- Formatted example
- $123.456,78
- Thousands separator
- .
- Decimal separator
- ,
- Digit grouping
- threes (3)
- Live rate
- No central-bank source publishes COP yet
Tax
- 5% — reduced
Payment methods in Colombia
Roughly ordered by real-world use — not by what a card processor would prefer you offer.
- 01 pse
- 02 card
- 03 nequi
- 04 efecty
- 05 cash on delivery
Card schemes that work domestically: visa, mastercard, amex. 3-D Secure is not standard; strong customer authentication is not legally mandated.
Locale
- Primary
- es-CO
- Official languages
- Spanish
- Direction
- left-to-right
- Date format
- DD/MM/YYYY
- Measurement
- metric
- GDPR applies
- no
Phone numbers
- Calling code
- +57
- Mobile format
- +57 3XX XXX XXXX
- Digits
- 10
Colombia: common questions
What currency does Colombia use?
Colombia uses the Colombian Peso (COP), symbol $. It uses 2 decimal places, formatted as $123.456,78.
How many decimal places does COP have?
COP has 2 decimal places. Charging with the wrong number of minor units is a 100× error, so this is worth getting right.
What is the IVA rate in Colombia?
The standard IVA rate in Colombia is 19.00%. Prices are displayed tax-inclusive.
What payment methods are used in Colombia?
The methods that matter in Colombia, in rough order of use: pse, card, nequi, efecty, cash on delivery.
What is the dialling code for Colombia?
Colombia's country calling code is +57. Mobile numbers are formatted +57 3XX XXX XXXX (10 digits after the country code).
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