Flutterwave Engineering

We’ve seen the conversations and feedback about our developer docs, and you’re right. They weren’t great back then. Over the past year, we’ve made huge improvements: clearer guides, better examples, updated SDKs, and more detailed API references. And we’re not done yet. We’re constantly refining and expanding the docs to make your integration experience smoother. Check them out again and give them a spin 👉 developer.flutterwave.com We’d love your feedback, positive or negative. Every comment helps us build something better for developers. 💪

Eid Mubarak to our community 🌙 Grateful for you. Wishing you joy, peace, and meaningful moments with those who matter most.

From the late-night prayers to the disciplined days of Ramadan, we have been inspired by your resilience. As you celebrate with family and friends this Eid, we’re proud to keep your business moving quietly in the background, so you don't have to miss a single moment of joy. Wishing our incredible community of entrepreneurs and enterprises a blessed Eid el-Fitr. Thank you for choosing us to power your dreams. Here’s to a season of happiness and success, Eid Mubarak! 🦋💙

The best part of Eid? The food, the family, or the Eid? 😉 Whatever your favorite part is, make sure your loved ones aren't left out of the celebration. Send money back home instantly and securely so they can celebrate to the fullest. 🌙🍲 Send Eid today with Send App! Link in bio. 👇🏽

Devs switching between AI coding tools because they can: ChatGPT → Claude → Copilot → Kimi → “one more try” → ChatGPT

Today is a special day at Flutterwave as we celebrate the birthday of our Founder and CEO, Olugbenga “GB” Agboola (@TechProd_Arch), whose vision set this journey in motion. Over the years, the world has watched Flutterwave grow into a force powering payments for businesses across Africa, building products that simplify how money moves, and connecting African businesses to a global stage. But the truth is, these wins did not happen by chance. Every milestone was shaped by resilience, and the unwavering belief of a leader who knew, long before it was obvious, that Africa deserves world-class financial infrastructure. Today, we celebrate the man behind the mission, the progress of the last decade, and the even greater milestones that lie ahead. Happy Birthday, GB. With love and gratitude from all of us at Flutterwave 💙

A Quick Guide to Developer Onboarding in v4 dev.to/flutterwaveeng…

If you've integrated with Flutterwave before, the v4 onboarding experience will feel noticeably different from the moment you sign up. The biggest change is that the sandbox is now completely separate from the live environment. You no longer need to complete business verification to start testing. Sign up, get your credentials, and build. The compliance process comes later, when it actually makes sense. Authentication has also moved from static API keys to OAuth 2.0, which issues access tokens with expiration dates. And error responses have been reworked to actually describe what went wrong and how to resolve it, something that was a real pain point in v3. @FlutterwaveEng's team published a practical guide walking through all of this, including a full Transfer Orchestrator example that shows the v4 API in action. Link to the full article is in the comments.

In this post we break down: • what payment rails actually are
• why success ≠ settled funds
• push vs pull rails
• how rails show up in APIs, webhooks, and transaction states If you build payment systems, this will save you a lot of confusion. Read here 👇 dev.to/flutterwaveeng…

One of the most confusing things in payments: Your API returns 200 OK
Your webhook fires
Everything looks successful …but the money hasn’t actually moved yet. That’s because payments run on different rails, each with its own timelines and rules. We wrote a guide for developers 🧵

@praise_olu49105 @alll_well @CodeEdison @aojjustaoj @FemiiSamuel @richsongocrazy @Python_Dv @panteronexus @AdewaleYusuf_ @Andela Keep going 🚀 We all started this way!

Day 3 of learning front-end (HTML). All thanks to God 🙏 I was able to create a sign in page , All done with my phone 📱 I am ready to learn you can share anything with me, about on this. Please let us engage in this post. Thank you 🙏 all.

To every mother and mother figure who shows up each day with love, wisdom, and resilience, we celebrate you. Your care, sacrifices, and vision help shape families, communities, and the future. Happy Mother’s Day from all of us at Flutterwave 💙

Every card payment travels a surprisingly long journey: Merchant → Acquirer → Card Network → Issuing Bank → Back again. We broke the entire process down in “A–Z of Card Payments with Flutterwave v4.” Learn how card payments work and how to integrate them using our new v4 APIs. New blog 👇🏽 dev.to/flutterwaveeng…

@umavictor_ We’ve all been there 🫂

@FlutterwaveEng wrong API key sadly 🥲

Honest question for developers: What’s the longest time you’ve spent debugging a bug that turned out to be something very small? We’re talking: • missing env variable
• wrong API key
• one typo
• wrong webhook URL