How we display currencies differs all around the globe – design with this in mind to give all our travellers the same great experience.
Prices in the product
The Bpk Price Component — often found on inventory cards — is available in big and small. This allows for currencies with low and high monetary unit sizes to be displayed clearly, particularly by preventing truncation for lengthy prices.
Prices are often pulled dynamically from a data set. When designing, it’s important to consider the length of a price, or whether the currency symbol leads or trails behind the sum.
How to display prices
The following section of these guidelines focuses on displaying pricing for British Pounds. When prices are localised, slightly different rules apply. There's information about global currencies as you read on, but there's also more guidance for the Bpk Price Component.
Use colons directly between a field title and monetary value:
- Total: £50
Add 2 decimal places if it isn’t a round number (there's no need to add any when it is):
- £5
- £5.09
- £5,550.99
Don't use a colon if the price is spaced out from the field title (e.g. if the title is left-aligned and the price is right-aligned.
Don't abrievate amounts in letter designations as this may not be understood in different markets.
- £1.5k
- $1MMM
How to write global currencies
Talking about currencies generally
When talking about currencies in longer-form content, write the currency in full using its proper noun followed by the currency symbol in brackets:
- British Pound (£)
- Brunei Dollar ($)
If the currency doesn’t have a symbol, write the recognised abbreviation in brackets:
- UAE dirham (AED)
Displaying specific monetary values
When referencing a specific amount, always use the recognised native symbol next to the number next to the number with no spaces. The symbol's position depends on where it’s placed in the native language:
- £200
- $200
- 200€
If it’s a less common currency to customers in our key markets, use the recognised symbol followed by the currency name. If the currency doesn’t have a symbol, use the name.
The position of the symbol depends on where it’s placed in the native language:
- 200 UAE dirham
- $200 Colombian Peso
Talking about currencies generally
When talking about currencies generally and there’s not enough space to write it out in full, use the recognised abbreviation (capitalised) and the native currency symbol with no spaces.
The symbol position depends on where it’s placed in the native language:
- GBP - £
- USD - $
- EUR - €
If the currency doesn’t have a symbol, just use the recognised abbreviation:
- AED
Showing specific monetary values
When referencing a specific monetary value, always use the recognised native symbol next to the number with no spaces. The symbol position depends on where it’s placed in the native language:
- £200
- $200
- 200€
If the currency doesn’t have a symbol, use the recognised abbreviation with a space between:
- 200 AED
Only use decimal places if pence or the equivalent are included:
- £80.25
- 80.25 AED
If the value is less than £1 or the equivalent, use the recognised symbol (lower case) or abbreviation (upper case):
- 1p
- 0.01 AED