When a user’s subscription within your app expires, how do the systems you have built know to notify them? If you're building a fintech that is involved in lending, how do you send repayment reminders to users a few days to their repayment and on the repayment day? You may…

The responses below represent my answers to the Techpoint Africa team during my interview with them. The published article on Techpoint is available here. First off, do you think an African card scheme would solve the problems African fintechs face with virtual cards? For the most part, yes, an African…

You must have installed the Stream Firestore to Big Query Extension and maybe even read some of the docs but you still can’t quite figure out how to get everything to work. This guide will help you with that. Have data in Firebase Firestore and need to bring them into…

If you’re running a Business in Africa, you know that every cent counts. While I love Twilio, and I’m always impressed by their delivery rates, the truth is that at $0.1982 per SMS, it’s expensive to use for early-stage startups whose revenues aren’t based in USD. I’m a big fan…

Firebase is a powerful backend service provided by Google that speeds up Web Development by providing a BaaS (Backend-as-a-service) infrastructure. Firebase allows Engineering teams to quickly build out and prototype applications without the need to worry about common backend services like authentication, authorization, database provision, task schedulers (thank you cloud…

You have created a Google Form for your Organisation. This form requires users to upload a file or image. The rest of your team is collaborating with you and viewing the form submissions in the Spreadsheet generated from the Google Form. Then, you get a shock. …

What is Mobile Money? For the uninitiated, Agency Banking/Mobile Money has blown up across Africa and Asia in the last decade. Pioneered by telecom service providers like Vodafone and Safaricom with mPesa in Kenya in 2007, the global mobile money market now processes over $490bn in transactions yearly. Mobile Money or Agency Banking is…

From driving over 70km on a Saturday morning to Shapati, a town in the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria where the nearest bank might be 10–20km away from you, to creating a WhatsApp group and sending out Google Forms to our first 10 Mobile Money Agents residing in Shapati, we’ve grown…

Starting a company is hard. Figuring out how to set up and configure E-mails for your organisation shouldn’t make your life any harder. In this tutorial, I’ll explain how I walked through solving two issues we recently had at Moni — redirecting E-mails sent to old staff to new staff…