Flutterwave Payment Gateway: Easy And Safe Payment

Theresa Ogaosun
4 min readSep 28, 2019

Having trouble with making seamless payments? Don’t know how to send money across the world? Don’t worry, you’re at the right place! Here is everything you need to know about the Flutterwave payment gateway and a solution to your payment issues.

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A month ago, I found myself in a ditch when I tried to send money to my younger brother schooling in another country. A friend had suggested that I use a proxy to send the money to him. It was a very long and unsafe process but out of desperation and no choice, I had to send the money through this stranger.

Fast forward to four days later, countless calling and stalking on social media to ensure that my brother gets the money, the money landed in my brother’s pocket… I could finally breathe. Honestly, it was the most horrible four days of my life with many sleepless nights and no peace of mind.

And I told myself, never again will I put myself through this torture. The next day, I put my Investigative Journalism skills to good use to search for a reliable payment gateway. I found Flutterwave payment gateway, or it found me, I guess.

Not to bore you with unnecessary details, I have put together a lot of information about Flutterwave payment gateway and how it can help all your payment challenges.

FLUTTERWWAVE PAYMENT GATEWAY: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

Flutterwave is a Fintech startup that aims to provide payment solutions platforms for businesses and individuals in Africa and anywhere around the world. The company was founded in 2016, by a team of former bankers, entrepreneurs, and engineers whose sole aim was to provide the best technology core needed to provide business all around the world a powerful, reliable and intelligent payment gateway. Their HQ is in San Francisco with offices in Lagos, Nairobi, Accra, and Johannesburg.

They have partnered with Visa to launch a consumer payment product called GetBarter. Thye have also partnered with Alipay, a digital wallet and payments platform by Alibaba. Flutterwave has put itself as a global B2B that allows clients to draw on their APIs and also work with their developers to customize payment applications. With customers like Uber, Facebook, Booking.com and Africa’s leading e-commerce Jumia.com, Flutterwave is dedicated to staying ahead of the industry by challenging its products and improving on every feature they offer. Here are their products below:

PRODUCTS:

Rave by Flutterwave

rave by flutterwave

Rave is a service that enables businesses to accept global payments from bank accounts, USSD or card payments. Rave is the easiest and swift way to receive and make payments from customers locally and globally with no setup fees. To make payments easy and secure for everyone, rave is dedicated to making daily payments very safe. They have built over 200 fraud rules, including a proprietary fraud system that checks every transaction to ensure that you are well-protected.

Plus you get great insight and a better understanding of who your customers are and their transaction habits when using your product. Awesome, right?

It also supports multiple currencies enabling you to send money to different countries. Superb!

GetBarter

The app comes with cool features that help you manage your finances, send and borrow money from friends. This app aims to ease small businesses and personal payments within Africa and beyond. With your Visa card, you can send and receive funds anywhere in the world on the app. Flutterwave payment gateway has made the Getbarter app to allow those with accounts or mobile wallets on other platforms to create a virtual Visa card to link to the app. Cool, right?

Flutterwave payment gateway has connected more consumers and traders by easing transactions across the world.

FLUTTERWAVE PAYMENT GATEWAY: PROS AND CONS

Pros:

  • Everything is made very easy from the Get barter app dashboard for easy understanding.
  • It also supports multiple currencies enabling you to send money to different countries.
  • It enables businesses to accept global payments from bank accounts, USSD or card payments.
  • It is a cheaper means of performing transactions.
  • Make various transactions and payments like mobile data payment, TV bills payment, internet subscription payment, and utility bills payment.
  • Secure and transparent transaction.
  • It allows non-cardholders to create a virtual Visa card to link to the app.

Cons:

  • SLow site loading time.
  • Slow Customer Service.
  • Longer verification process.

While there were some not so good reviews about flutterwave payment gateway, the number of good reviews were very encouraging. With every work of creation, there is always room for improvement. Nothing is ever too perfect, so upgrades and improvements are always encouraged.

In Conclusion

With reliable products like Rave and Getbarter to ease payment, the flutterwave payment gateway is the sure route to take for all your business transactions. So, go and create an account with flutterwave to provide your customers with the best possible payment experience.

I hope this helps you solve your payment issues as much as it helped me solve mine. Ciao!

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Theresa Ogaosun

I am that creative writer that likes to try new things, I am not afraid of change and I do enjoy a challenge... a little excitement too!