Buying Stock in Euros: How EUR Invoicing Works for a UK Trade Buyer

Buying from a European manufacturer means the invoice is in euros, even if every other supplier you deal with invoices in pounds. That’s a small operational difference, not a complicated one — here’s exactly how it works.

Why the invoice is in euros

We’re a Polish manufacturer, and our prices and invoices are in EUR — €72 to €112 per frame ex works across the six sizes, for example. That’s the currency the transaction is priced and settled in, regardless of which currency you eventually resell in.

What the £0.88 figure on this site is, and what it isn’t

GBP shown for guidance only, converted at €1 = £0.88. Invoiced in EUR. That figure exists so you can get a quick sense of scale in a currency you’re more used to working in day-to-day — it isn’t a rate we bill at, lock in, or guarantee at the point of order. The actual invoice, and the amount that leaves your account, is in EUR.

Where the rate is fixed in a purchase — and where it isn’t

Within a single order, the euro price is fixed: your proforma invoice states an amount in EUR, and that’s what you pay. What isn’t fixed is the EUR/GBP rate at the moment you convert that payment from pounds — that’s set by whatever payment method or currency provider you use, at whatever the market rate is on the day you pay. How you manage that — a multi-currency account, a forward contract, or simply converting at the time of payment — is a decision for you and your bank or accountant, not something we specify or arrange as part of a frame order.

Building the rate into your resale price

Since the euro price is fixed but the conversion rate isn’t, the practical approach most buyers take is to build in some headroom on the exchange rate when setting a resale price, rather than pricing to the exact GBP figure shown on this site on the day they look at it. The GBP figures here are reviewed periodically, but your actual landed cost in pounds depends on the rate at the moment you pay the invoice, not the rate shown when you requested the quotation.

Reading a pallet calculation in two currencies

The pallet calculator on our ottoman bed bases page shows both figures side by side — the EUR total that matches your invoice, and an indicative GBP figure at the current guidance rate. Use the EUR total as the number that won’t move once you’ve placed the order, and the GBP figure as a planning estimate rather than a fixed price. If you’d rather work through a specific order with firm numbers, send us your sizes and postcode and the quotation that comes back will have the same EUR/GBP structure, confirmed against the current rate.