Flutterwave
The future of online payments.
Flutterwave is an online payments solution company which offer services that help bridge gap in web/mobile transaction solutions across African countries. The services allow businesses and individuals make and receive payment from Verve, MasterCard, Visa, Mobile Money, e-wallets etc, in different African countries by integrating one API.
According to Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, CEO of Fluttetwave, in an interview with Techcrunch, “What we’re trying to do is remove the barriers between payment instruments and channels. If what you have is mPesa, you should be able to pay into someone’s bank account. You charge people’s cards. You can accept payments via a link on Instagram.”
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Flutterwave currently offers two services, Moneywave and Ravepay.
Moneywave is a solution that allows individuals and merchants make and receive payments in whatever African currency they desire. Moneywave is an API layer that can be integrated into business platforms, allowing payments to be made in any form by the recipient.
Ravepay provides a safe method for business owners and individual receive payments from cards, bank accounts and Unstructured Supplementary Service Data(USSD — powered by mCASH). With Rave merchants can now receive payments globally. Rave also allows merchants to charge cards and bank accounts directly and supports multiple currencies, so business owners can receive payments in other currencies. It allow supports currency conversions. Get started using rave here.
Flutterwave has processed $1.2B in over 10M transactions, with clients ranging from uber to hotels.ng and a whole lot of others. They’ve provided solutions that have really helped in covering the lapses that were present in the world of online transactions, we have seen a lot of happy users, satisfied with how they can now make transactions. It’s safe to say that Flutterwave is here to stay and we are here to welcome more products and services that they might have to offer in the near future.
