Using foreign CC to pay foreign vendor from US account... is there an exchange?

[Aaron_A]

I have a US Paypal account. However, I would like to make a purchase from a Canadian business using a Canadian credit card. Will the money remain in CAD?How can I be sure that PayPal will not exchange it to US and then charge USD to a CAD card thereby exchanging the money twice?

Thanks!

[sharpiemarker · Accepted solution]

@Aaron_A 

If the merchant lets you pay by credit card through PayPal guest checkout (no PayPal account login), do it that way, instead of adding the CAN card to your US PayPal account which you might not be able to do because PayPal accounts are country specific.