Approximating Alternate Currency Equivalents In Digital Receipts

At a mobile device for a customer, the mobile device including one or more processors and system memory, the mobile device containing a receipt management application, the receipt management application configured to store and manage digital receipts for the customer, the mobile device able to communicate with a receipt data server, a method for converting item prices in a digital receipt between currencies, the method comprising:

• sending a request for digital receipts to the receipt data server, the request including an application id for the receipt management application.
• receiving a digital receipt from the receipt data server for a sales transaction conducted at a Point-Of-Sale (POS) system, the digital receipt containing a receipt item for each of one or more items purchased by a customer in the sales transaction, item prices for purchased items indicated in a currency;
• receiving a request to convert item prices into a specified second currency;
• in response to the received request, converting item prices in the received digital receipt from the currency to the specified second currency.

A system for converting item prices in a digital receipt from a first currency to a second different currency, the system comprising:

• a mobile device and a receipt data server,
• the mobile device comprising:
• one or more processors;
• system memory;
• a network adapter;
• one or more computer storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the mobile device to:
• send a request for digital receipts to the receipt data server, the request including an application id for the receipt management application, the request indicating that item prices in returned digital receipts are to be indicated in the second different currency;
• receive a digital receipt from the receipt data server for a sales transaction conducted at a Point-Of-Sale (POS) system, the digital receipt containing a receipt item for each of one or more items purchased by a customer in the sales transaction, item prices for purchased items indicated in the second different currency;
• display the item prices in the second different currency by displaying the digital receipt at a display device;
• and
• the data receipt server comprising:
• one or more processors;
• system memory;
• a network adapter;
• one or more computer storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the data receipt server to:
• store the digital receipts for subsequent access by a mobile device, item prices in the digital receipts indicated in the first currency;
• receive the request from the mobile device;
• in response to the received request, locate any digital receipts corresponding to the mobile device base on the application id;
• convert item prices in located digital receipts from the first currency to the second different currency;
• and
• send the converted digital receipts to the mobile device.