Payment options available on Nature.com
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- Customers from Canada, North and Latin America will be billed in US Dollars (USD).
- Customers from Great Britain are billed in Pounds Sterling (GBP).
- Customers from Europe, Africa, Asia/Pacific will be billed in Euros (EUR).
- Customers from Japan will be billed in Japanese Yen (JPY).
If you pay with a credit card or PayPal and your local currency is not one of those listed above the amount will be converted by your bank or credit card issuer automatically. This may incur foreign transaction fees from your banking provider.
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Other payment options
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US: Prepayment is required for all Springer Nature journal orders. You can pay using check or money order drawn on a US Bank. Customers from Canada paying by cheque for an order under $500 USD must have the cheque drawn from a US Bank.
ROW: Prepayment is required for all Springer Nature journal orders except for customers based in Germany, Austria and Switzerland where we allow invoicing via direct debit on request.
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Auto payments for annual subscription renewals
The Automatic Payment option allows a subscriber to register their payment card at the time of purchasing from the web shop, allowing future renewals to be charged to the same card. These can only be applied at the time a subscription is purchased on Nature.com or Springerlink.com.
During the payment process of placing an order as you enter your card details, you will see an option box and you can select to opt into the auto payment option. Once the opt in box is selected, the card will be registered for any subsequent renewals to that Journal only. If you are purchasing multiple titles, each journal would need to be registered for automatic payments individually.
Please do not send your card details directly to customer service as we are unable to store them or add them to a subscription later. All card details submitted through the form are held on an encrypted Worldpay system.
2 weeks prior to the end of the current subscription we will notify you that the contract is due to expire soon and remind you that the auto renewal option was selected at the time of purchase. Then, 1 week prior to the expiry date we will attempt to take the payment.
If we are unable to initiate a payment attempt for any reason i.e. the card has expired, we will notify you via email with a new payment link where you can amend the card details. If the 1st attempt to collect payment is not successful, we will try 2 more times then if the subsequent requests fail, we will then send you a new payment link (active for 7 days) and request the card details are updated.
After the 3rd attempt, if we have been unable to charge the registered card and no new card information has been provided then we will suspend the subscription.
You can cancel the auto payment for renewals at any time by contacting our Customer Service team.