Foreign cardholder payment

Link de Pagamento and Checkout Cielo accept payments made by cardholders with cards issued abroad.

The option to accept international cards is already enabled by default, so no additional configuration is required.

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Important

Payments with foreign cardholders are only available when Checkout or Link de Pagamento is configured as no shipping.

The no shipping configuration varies according to the payment generation method:

Website

When creating a Payment Link, select one of the options under Finalidade do link (Purpose of the link):

• Cobrar um valor* (Charge an amount);
• Venda recorrente* (Recurring sale).

These purposes do not include shipping and allow payments from foreign cardholders.

API

To create a Payment Link or a Checkout page without shipping via API, use the following settings:

• For the type parameter, use one of the following values: Digital, Service, Payment, or Recurrent;
• For checkout, the Cart.Items.Type parameter must be set to: Digital, Service, or Payment;
• In both Payment Link and Checkout, the shipping.type parameter must be set to: WithoutShipping.

These values ensure that the transaction is treated as no shipping, allowing payments made by foreign cardholders.