Three questions that get collapsed into one
When a company based outside Mexico wants to house a team in Monterrey, it almost always asks a single question: how do we pay you. It is really three independent questions, and answering them separately is what keeps the payment from stalling.
First, what currency the stay is quoted and charged in. Second, how the money actually moves. Third, what tax document gets issued and in whose name. These combine in several ways, and the answer to one does not determine the others.
Currency: decide who absorbs the exchange rate
A stay in Mexico is normally quoted in Mexican pesos. If your company budgets in another currency, somebody performs the conversion: your bank, your payment processor, or your own spreadsheet, at a rate from one particular day that is not necessarily the day the payment clears.
That is not a problem, but it is a line item worth making explicit in the budget rather than discovering on a statement. Ask at quote time which currency the conditions are expressed in, and which currency any document would be issued in.
Payment rail: ask which one applies before you book
The mechanisms that exist in Mexico for this kind of payment include a domestic bank transfer, an international transfer, and card payment through a platform. Each carries different timing, fees, and traceability, and not all of them are available in every case.
That is why we do not publish a list of accepted methods here: it would depend on your situation and would go stale. Ask us directly which one applies for your dates and for the type of entity that will be paying, and we will confirm it before anything is held.
The invoice is a separate question, not a by-product of paying
This is the part that most confuses finance teams outside Mexico. The Mexican tax document, the CFDI, is not generated simply because a payment went out. It requires the tax details of the recipient and is issued in the name of whoever will deduct the expense.
We issue CFDI invoices for the stay. If the payer is a foreign entity with no Mexican tax registration, the conversation changes: you need to establish with your own accounting team what document they actually require to support the expense in their jurisdiction, because it is not always a CFDI. That determination is theirs, not ours. What we can do is tell you precisely what we are able to issue.
The sequence that avoids rework
Before booking, settle three things: who the recipient of the document is, what currency the transaction runs in, and which rail the payment will use. With those three closed, the booking itself is a short conversation.
Without them, the usual outcome is that the team arrives, the stay goes fine, and the problem surfaces at close, when the payment has already gone out one way and the document is needed in a different entity name. Fixing that afterwards costs far more time than asking beforehand.
