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 …
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250 Million Potential Customers In Europe 🇪🇺 and the UK 🇬🇧 Can Now Pay Your African Business
Picture this: Your customer is browsing your business page, eagerly searching for that perfect item. Finally, they find it. Excitement fills their veins as they head to the checkout page, ready to complete their purchase. And there it is, a …
Understanding Payments: The Card Payment Process
We all make card payments and most times they’re quite smooth but what actually happens behind the scenes? What leads to those other times when they’re not quite smooth? Those times when they pull errors, cause double debits, late debits, …
One Year Later: How good is Flutterwave’s ‘Pay with Bank Transfer?’
9 weeks after we launched “Pay With Bank Transfer” we published this post asking how good it was.
The first question we knew you had was whether there were people using it, so we answered: 20,000+ in the first 9 …
20 Unique Father’s Day Gift Ideas from Flutterwave Stores
With Father’s Day just a couple of days away, we can bet that you’re ready to “win Father’s Day” this year. The secret to winning and showing appreciation for dad, is gifting very unique items you know he will appreciate. …
Edible Loaf: A Polymath’s journey from Dressmaking to Baking
A global pandemic-induced lockdown can hold down a lot of entrepreneurs but not our polymath in focus today – Bunmi Njugo.
Bunmi Njugo who works remotely from Lagos, Nigeria, learned to bake years ago but never really made any commercial …
How to Make Money Online Selling Products
The internet has given us the opportunity to make new friends, get hired for jobs, etc but how about making money? Are there ways to make money online? Sure, there are. You only have to decide what exactly you want …
15 Businesses You Can Start with Flutterwave Store Right Now
We’re still in the middle of the global covid-19 pandemic and yes we’re still on a mission to #KeepTheLightsOn for our businesses.
Today, we want make a list of businesses you can set up right now using Flutterwave Store. …
Get the best out of your Flutterwave Store: Connect your Flutterwave account to Zapier
Zapier, known as “the easiest way to automate your work,” allows you to connect the business tools you use already to your Flutterwave account to make you even more effective and efficient.
So, you’re a Flutterwave business and you …
Adenike Adeyemi’s Top 3 Lessons that will help businesses #KeepTheLightsOn
Adenike Adeyemi is a development sector professional with 18 years of experience in non-profit management, enterprise development, education and youth enablement strategies, and she’s currently the Chief Executive Officer of FATE Foundation.
Adenike was one of our guests at …