Pre-authorization charge (or pre-auth for short) is a transaction involving a temporary hold on a customer’s card. The hold helps to verify that the customer’s card is valid and has sufficient funds to cover the pending transaction without charging the …
Category Archives: Design & Engineering
From Code to Canvases and Dishes: See the Multifaceted World of Anjola, Our Picasso Engineer
Welcome to another episode of Inside Engineering, in this series, we delve into the lives of Flutterwave Engineers and discover fascinating aspects of their personalities beyond their work and laptop screens. For this episode, we have the pleasure of …
Webhooks and Why They Matter In Your Product
Today, apps leverage communications with multiple servers (or systems) to deliver engaging features for users e.g. when a user subscribes to a newsletter, they receive a notification (usually an email) acknowledging this action. Here, there is a considerable amount of …
What To Expect At The Flutterwave Dev Jam #FDJ22
In the past few decades, we’ve seen and experienced a lot of advancements in our daily lives. We went from Web 0.0 to Web 3.0, from having to always visit the bank to make the simplest of transactions to now …
Getting Started With APIs
Introduction
You probably have heard about ‘APIs’ a million times by now, But what are they? Why should they matter? and more importantly, how can they help you?
In this article, we will cover the following:
- What an API is.
Understanding Bill Payments With Flutterwave
Flutterwave’s Bill Payments APIs make it possible for businesses to re-sell bill payment services such as airtime, data bundles, power and cable tv, allowing them to make some profit via commissions.
To help software developers and businesses further understand how …
Design Handoffs: How Flutterwave Engineers & Designers Collaborate
We all understand the value of collaboration, especially when it comes to building anything; digital products, a house, roads and I dare say, a family! We’ve seen how construction engineers work with architects, stonemasons, plumbers, electricians and so on, to …
Issuing Virtual Cards – Backend API Implementation
This article will help you understand how to issue virtual cards using Flutterwave. After reading the article, you should be able to create, fund and make payments with virtual cards. To get the most out of this tutorial, you should …
How To Ensure Your Settlement Is Processed
Settlement is a process whereby money collected on your behalf is delivered to your Primary Bank Account or Flutterwave Wallet. Once you receive payments into your Flutterwave account and it appears in your Ledger Balance, your funds are automatically settled …
Troubleshooting Wrong Webhooks Implementation
In this article, we’ll discuss how to troubleshoot and debug webhook issues. For more details on what a webhook is and how to set up a webhook for Flutterwave transactions, kindly visit here.
After reading this article, you should …