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Helping African merchants get paid by anyone, anywhere in the world. Need support? Hit us up at @PaystackSupport!
Joined October 2015
Paystack engineers are building powerful tools that connect African businesses with customers worldwide. See what it’s like to be a developer at Paystack 💙. Then, explore our engineering page for more details 👇🏿.
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⚡️ We're thrilled to announce Paystack Commerce, a toolkit that helps African creators bring ideas to market, beautifully. (THREAD 👇🏿)
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For several months, several members of our team suffered experiences which can only be described as horrific. Here is one example of far too many. #EndPoliceBrutality (1/n).
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Paystack will continue to operate independently and there will be no disruption of service. With Stripe's support and expertise, we will provide deeper integrations with global platforms and accelerate our geographic expansion.
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2024 has been a year of inspiring growth for thousands of Paystack merchants, and we’re thrilled to share our latest milestone!. For the first time ever, businesses in Nigeria sent and received over ✨1 trillion naira✨ with Paystack, in a single month (July 2024) 🍾🎊🎉. We’re
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These are very important conversations that affect the lives of people all over Nigeria and are focused on ending police brutality. When the time is right, we'll share more about our journey.
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⚡️ Hi team, we're thrilled to announce Paystack Terminal! . Terminal is a point-of-sale solution that helps modern businesses in Africa create custom, delightful in-person payment experiences that keep customers coming back. (THREAD 👇🏾)
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⚡️ Hi team, we're thrilled to announce Paystack Storefront - our most powerful Commerce tool yet - to help African creators sell more online, beautifully.
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Hi team 👋🏾. We’re excited to announce that we’ve partnered with NIBSS to develop Paystack Direct Debit - a fully digital solution for processing direct debits from customers’ bank accounts in Nigeria. Paystack Direct Debit is currently in private beta.
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🚀 We're excited to announce that Brass has been acquired by an investment group led by Paystack, with participation from PiggyVest, Ventures Platform, and P1 Ventures 🤝.
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🚀 We're excited to announce the Paystack CLI, which helps software developers set up, run, and manage Paystack integrations right from the terminal!. THREAD 👇🏾.
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Hello Mzansi 👋🏾. Paystack is live in South Africa! 🇿🇦. (Thread 👇🏾)
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🚀 We're excited to announce Pay with Transfer — a new payment channel through which your Nigeria-based customers can pay you.
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Hi friends! 👋🏾. Come join us at the next edition of #ArtworkLive where @MohiniUfeli will answer questions on how you can convert leads to happy customers with clear communication. 📆 Wednesday, February 2.⏰ 8 pm WAT. Set a reminder 👇🏾.
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⚡️[NEW] We recently put up our very first billboards in Lagos, and in this post, we share everything we learned about billboard advertising in Nigeria. ✅ detailed pricing guide for 9 billboard agencies.✅ contract template.✅ guide to regulatory approval.
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⚡️We're thrilled to announce that we've partnered with @LambdaSchool to provide a full stack developer education to candidates from Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa ✨at no upfront tuition cost!✨ 🇨🇮🇬🇭🇰🇪🇳🇬🇿🇦
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⚡️ Hi team, we're excited to announce a new transaction milestone: customers are now using Paystack to pay over 10 billion naira (~$27.5 million) to businesses, every month!
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Are you a writer wishing to get your bylines on international publications? .Join us for season 1’s final #ArtworkLive chat, where Ayodeji Rotinwa will answer your questions about crafting winning pitches. 📆 Wed, Feb 16.⏰ 6 pm WAT. Set a reminder 👇🏾 .
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Wow, 6 years? That’s like 60 in startup years! 👴🏾. Congratulations, Yinka! Grateful that you’re part of our story 💙🌟.
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We loved meeting with @github CEO @natfriedman and the rest of the GitHub team at a fireside chat at the Paystack office yesterday! Stoked for the future of developer relations in Africa!
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This week marked our largest intake of new team members ever. 11 people joined Paystack! This brings our team to 50 amazing individuals 🎆 🎉🎊 Welcome!
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🚀 Hi team, come listen to Paystack CEO @shollsman share critical insights on what he has learnt from building a startup in the 2nd edition of @TechCabal's Building From Ground Up. 📆 Date: Fri, Nov 6.⏰ Time: 11 am (WAT). Register to join here 👇🏾.
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✨ Hi friends! Are you a brand designer eager to build a world-class design studio from Africa? At the next #ArtworkLive chat, @ogbeniseyi will answer your questions. 📅 Wednesday, December 15. ⏰ 6 pm WAT. Set a reminder 👉🏾.
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✨️ Hi team, we’re hiring a Graphic Designer who understands fundamental design principles and can contribute to communicating and evolving the Paystack brand. ⏰ Application deadline: September 13. Kindly share with your network!
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No-one should live in fear of the people they looked to to be their protectors. Every day that this continues adds a human cost whose tally runs deeper than naira or dollars. It's too much. It must stop. We support calls to #EndPoliceBrutality in Nigeria. (2/n).
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⚡️ Paystack went to Ghana! 🇬🇭 As in, the entire team (including spouses and kids) went on an incredible 5 day trip to Accra to better understand the needs of Ghanaian businesses and their customers 😅 Here's what happened.
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⚡️ Hi team, we're hiring for EIGHT (8) roles within our Growth team!.See the full list of roles here: .Follow the thread for each role’s description 👇🏾.
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Offsites are one of the tools we use to build culture at Paystack. Last month, we brought together 200+ Stacks from seven countries for our annual offsite in Nigeria 🇳🇬. It was 5 amazing days of learning, bonding, and celebrating our growth together. Here’s what it looked like
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Congratulations, @chowdeck! 🎉👏🏽🚀 What an incredible journey you’ve had in just 22 months!. We’re excited for what you’ll accomplish in the next 22 💙💙💙.
After 22 months of operations, @chowdeck has finally delivered items worth over a billion Naira in a single month!. To think that earlier in March this year, we were celebrating delivering items worth a billion Naira since inception. In recent times, I have had to think a lot.
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⚡️Engineers at Paystack are helping solve Africa's biggest payments challenges, one commit at a time. See what it's like to be a developer at Paystack, and then check out our engineering page for more!
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⚡️ We're excited to announce the brand new Paystack Developer Documentation, which makes it easier to build custom payment experiences in record time! . Let's dive into what's new. [THREAD 👇🏾].
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⚡️ Hi team, we're thrilled to announce Paystack Virtual Terminal — accept blazing fast in-person payments at scale, and with ZERO hardware costs. Thread 🧵
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✨ For over 5 years, @PiggyBankNG has helped Nigerians plan their finances. Co-founder & CMO, @joshchibueze shares how they help over 2 million users reach their financial goals with Paystack’s support. Check out the video here 👇🏾.
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✨ Hi team! We’re excited to announce that @paystack has received a Payment Services Provider (PSP) Enhanced License from @thebankofghana 🇬🇭. (Thread 🧵).
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🚀 Have you ever received a Paystack debit alert for a transaction you don't recognise?. Say hello to Transaction Lookup, a new tool that helps you quickly look up which business debited you.
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⚡️ Hi team, we're super excited to announce Pay with Apple Pay — a new payment channel that lets you accept fast, secure international payments from millions of Apple Pay users!. [Thread 🧵].
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Hi team, we wanted to reassure you that the recent NIBSS circular does not impact Paystack-Titan or any other Paystack services. We developed Paystack-Titan in partnership with Titan Trust Bank in a way that allows the service to operate compliantly, and it passed review from.
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Confirmed, 9 zeroes and counting! Cheers to your first billion Naira on Paystack! 🥂 Congratulations 🎊🎉❤️.
Hi team @paystack we joined the list of merchants that have processed over N1,000,000,000 on Paystack at10:30pm last night. Can you please confirm? We know competition is fierce but we shooting for that trillion. We don't have a company without Paystack. Thank you all so much.
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✨ This past weekend, the entire Paystack team went to Abeokuta on our quarterly offsite, where as a team we planned for the coming months 📝. Check out the highlights from our recent trip! 👇🏾
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🔥 A lot (a LOT) happened in 2023 - so many improvements on Paystack, you might have missed some!⚡️. As we continue building in 2024, here are the 10 stories that shaped our past year 🧵👇🏾
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✨ We're looking for kind, smart problem solvers to help ambitious African companies grow and scale. Does this sound like you? Join Paystack as a Product Specialist!. ⏳ Deadline: Sunday, February 7th
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✨ We're excited to announce the Paystack Merchant App — a native mobile experience that puts your business in the palm of your hand. [Thread 👇🏾].
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🚀 We're excited to invite you to a webinar where @ycombinator CEO, @mwseibel and Paystack CEO, @shollsman will speak with African founders on how you can get into YC. 🗓 Date: Tuesday, September 8th.⏰ Time: 5 PM - 6 PM (WAT). Sign up for free here 👇🏾.
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The Vice President, @ProfOsinbajo is live at Paystack on a tour of top tech companies in Nigeria. Follow this thread for updates and @paystackHQ for live IG updated.#VPTourOfTech
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👋🏿 What do you want to see from Paystack this year?. (We have a lot planned and we want to make sure we're focused on what matters most to you. Let us know what product or overall improvements you'd like to see. We're all ears ❤️).
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✨ Hi team! We’re hiring!. Paystack is looking for empathetic and creative problem-solvers to join our product team and help build reliable and scalable payments infrastructure. Is this you or someone you know?. [Details in the thread 🧵].
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🎉New post: We wrote about our latest milestone, and also about why we share our transaction numbers publicly
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In the newest episode of the @ycombinator podcast, Paystack CEO @shollsman shares details about our tech stack, which applications he'd love to see built on top of Paystack, and more!
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Hi team 🚀.We're hiring a Product Manager to help drive product innovation for our merchants in Ghana as we continue to build for the continent’s most ambitious businesses. Application deadline: Friday, March 12. Apply here👇🏾 or kindly share with someone.
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✨ Join us on the next edition of #ArtworkLive with @New_Comma Co-founder @Nataliiee_N as she answers your questions on how to land collaborations with global brands. 📆 Wednesday, January 19.⏰ 6 pm WAT. Set a reminder 👇🏾.
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Chowdeck makes food, grocery, and essential goods delivery simple and efficient by connecting vendors of all kinds with customers 🍛. @LordBinary_, @Ken_3dy, and @ymlanre share how Paystack’s secure payment infrastructure gives @Chowdeck a competitive edge and powers their
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Paystack Virtual Terminal helps you accept blazing fast in-person payments at scale, and with ZERO hardware costs. With instant bank transfer alerts sent via WhatsApp, your customers no longer have to wait to confirm successful transactions. ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Hi team! One of the most popular feature requests we get is for merchants to be able to use Paystack without needing a corporate bank account or company registration document. well, we have some good news 😁🎉.
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Hi team ✨. Join us this Thursday on Tabs vs Spaces where software engineers - @omguhh (Senior Frontend Engineer, Paystack), and @AdoraNwodo (Software Engineer, Microsoft) - debate Monorepos vs Polyrepos. Set a reminder here 👇🏾.
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Paystack is hiring 2 interns to join its Product Operations team! We’re looking for young, smart, eager individuals who are about to begin their NYSC service year. Apply here
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Chicken suya & fries + pizza + ice cream + Deadpool 2 = Movie Night at Paystack 🍿🍿🍿
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👋🏾 Hi team, we’re excited to announce that you can now sell Digital Products — like ebooks, and digital art — with Paystack Storefronts and Product Links. 🧵 There’s more (thread👇🏾).
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⚡️ We're looking for 6 articulate recent graduates who're curious, empathetic, and kind, and who're looking to launch their career by joining Paystack. Please share with keen talent who's looking for an incredible entry level opportunity.
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✨ Hi friends! In the next edition of #ArtworkLive, @joseph_nti will answer your questions about how to build a passionate fan community around your content. 📆 Wednesday, December 1.⏰ 8 pm WAT.Set a reminder 👇🏾.
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We're gearing up for something special tomorrow and we can't wait to share it with you! . As an African creator, how do you find commercial success while doing great creative work? Don't want to miss out? Subscribe to 👉🏾 . 24 hours to go ✈️
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✨ We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our private beta in Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, and Rwanda! 🚀
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⚡️Hi team, here's your #DettyDecember agenda for the season 👏🏿. Introducing the Paystack Detty December Calendar — the best parties and events happening in Nigeria and Ghana this holiday! Here's why we made this (THREAD 👇🏿).
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👋🏽 This year, we launched Paystack Catalyst - a collection of tools and resources to help startups scale 🚀 . If you’re curious about how Paystack Catalyst works, check out this video where @NubiKay, our Startup Programs Lead, joins founders from @brassHQ, @withlotus_, and
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We're hiring! 😀. ⚡️ Snr Software Engineer, Backend.⚡️ Jnr Software Engineer, Backend.⚡️ Product Manager. Learn more:
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✨Last week was Customer Service Appreciation Week, and this is the video we shared internally to celebrate everyone who goes the extra mile to make magic happen at Paystack. Special shout out to customer-facing teams everywhere for all that you do! 💙💙💙
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✨Hi team! We've received a few requests from parents asking if it'd be possible to help introduce their young ones to tech and startups, so we're doing something a little special this week. 👇🏾.
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Hi team 👋🏽. We experienced a technical issue with a processing partner, which delayed the delivery of bank transfers in Nigeria. The issue has now been resolved, and we’re clearing the backlog right this minute. [Continues below 👇🏽].
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🎉 Hi team, we’re excited to announce Pay with Pocket on Paystack Checkout in Nigeria — accept fast, secure payments from over 2 million @getpocketapp users! ⚡️
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We're honored to have received a Nigeria Innovation Index 2018 Award, in the category of Strategy, Innovation, Ideation and Absorption. Thank you @Accenture 💙
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⚡️ Hi team, we're still hiring a Graphic Designer who can contribute to communicating and evolving the Paystack brand. ⏰ Application deadline: September 13. Kindly share with your network! .
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⚡️ Hi team, we're hiring for Product Design and Frontend Engineering roles! . 🔥 Frontend Engineer - Web Experiences ✨ Frontend Engineer - Product ❤️ Product Designer ⏰ Application Deadline: Nov 4.
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🎉 Hi team, we're excited to announce Paystack Go! — a mobile experience that brings your most important business metrics into the palm of your hand! ✅ Works offline.✅ Track business performance.✅ Look up transaction details.✅ Send invoices, and more!
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✨Food businesses in Nigeria🇳🇬 & Ghana🇬🇭 such as restaurants & bars have been some of the hardest-hit during COVID-19. That's why we've published a 6,000-word playbook sharing 15 tactics food businesses in 8 countries are using to grow sales. [THREAD 👇🏿].
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✨ We're live at #DevFest2018 where our Senior Engineer @nanyaks will be speaking on Building for Scale! If you're part of this 2000+ crowd be sure to say hi! 👋🏾.#DevFestLagos
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Hi team ✨. Almost exactly one year after Paystack officially launched in South Africa, the Paystack SA team has grown from a handful of people to over 30 Stacks! Meet some of the people working to help merchants in South Africa accept payments online and grow their businesses ❤️
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We're thrilled to share that @LambdaSchool Africa Pilot has been extended w/ our friends at @buycoins_africa @walletsafrica @PiggyBankNG @thriveagric @CredPal @VertoFX & @cowrywise! . 30 more students will have the chance to be hired by these companies!.
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⚡️ Hi Team! .We’re thrilled to announce Tabs vs Spaces, a bi-weekly Twitter Spaces show where developers from startups in Africa have chill debates about hot topics in software development ✨. Thread 🧵
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⚡️ Hi team, we’re hiring a Senior Product Manager who’s curious about our users’ pain points, and can help conceptualise, build and maintain products they’ll love ❤️. ⏰ Application deadline: December 22. Kindly share with your network!.
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Paystack is pumped for our upcoming Ghana launch! 🇬🇭 We recently spent 5 days on an amazing trip to Accra, where we met with brilliant business owners. Subscribe here for updates
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⚡️ Hi team — we’re thrilled to announce Paystack-Titan, a blazing fast improvement to Virtual Accounts that enables businesses to accept bank transfers instantly, reliably, and at scale.
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⚡️Hi team, yesterday we announced that we've raised an $8m Series A round from @stripe, @Visa and others. In this community update, CEO @shollsman shares what that means for you, our merchants, and our company.
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Microsoft Engineer @ashinzekene built the Angular Paystack Library, an open source library for Angular developers. He shares his journey into open source, the challenges of building for Angular, and how his contributions opened doors in his career.
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