Notes on cross-border payments
Practical guides and engineering deep-dives on moving money across African corridors — FX, webhooks, mobile money, and building payment flows you can trust.
A developer's guide to reliable payment webhooks
Webhooks are how a payments platform tells your system that money moved. Getting them right — signatures, idempotency, retries — is the difference between a payment flow you can trust and one that quietly loses events.
The Payve Team
July 14, 2026
Send, collect, convert: the three building blocks of cross-border payments
Almost every cross-border payment problem is a combination of three primitives. Understanding them makes it far easier to design a flow that fits your business.
The Payve Team
June 30, 2026
How mobile money is reshaping payments across Africa
For a large share of people and businesses across the continent, the primary account is a phone number, not a bank. Any serious cross-border strategy has to treat mobile money as a first-class rail.
The Payve Team
June 16, 2026
Idempotency keys: why safe retries matter when you move money
The single most important property of a money-moving API is that retrying a request never moves the money twice. Idempotency keys are how you get there.
The Payve Team
June 2, 2026
What to look for in a cross-border payments API
Choosing a payments partner is a long-term decision. Beyond the pricing page, a few practical questions tell you whether an API will hold up as you grow.
The Payve Team
May 19, 2026
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