A provider of ecommerce solutions and third party online payments 2Checkout.com announced the addition of five new purchase currencies and one remittance currency to its lists of payment options for international customers.

Starting October 12 2009 the Argentina Peso (ARS), Brazilian Real (BRL), Indian Rupee (INR), Mexican Peso (MXN), and the South African Rand (ZAR), are available for online shoppers to choose from and for existing 2Checkout vendors to set as default currencies in 2CO’s hosted purchase routine. Thus, the total number of currencies offered by 2CO makes up 17 units.

Apart from this 2CO added the Rand (ZAR) to its remittance currency list, making it possible for the company’s South African-based merchants to be paid in ZAR by wire transfer. Thereby. The number of 2CO’s overall payout currencies increased to 25.