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Flutterwave is a payment platform that enables businesses and individuals to accept and make payments. The platform supports over 30 currencies and 15 different payment methods, including debit/credit cards, bank accounts, mobile money, and USSD. Flutterwave can process up to 20 million API calls per day and an average of 500,000 payments daily, ensuring efficient and reliable transactions.
Provider
Flutterwave
Located In
United States
Open API
Unverified
Deployment
Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Content Source: Flutterwave
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Flutterwave Reviews
Pros
I personally like the fact that they integrated Paypal because most of our foreign clients prefer it.
Rave is very easy to set up and use. It also integrates many African mobile payment methods like orange money, MTN mobile money, express union, and even credit cards.
It continually develops new and amazing features for businesses.
I enjoy the ease with which receiving payments for my business is made quite easy by the ease of setup and editing of payment and product pages in Rave.
Cons
Though Rave is in Africa, it is not available across Africa and some other countries which is a disadvantage because my business covers a lot of countries in sub Saharan Africa.
A company that deals with quite a lot of international transactions like mine, Rave offers us industry standard fraud detection and prevention.
They easily go against their own terms and policies. Flutterwave has a continuous record of failed transactions due to one reason or the other.
For example, even though I integrated RAVE into my LMS with the use of Zapier, its difficult to run affiliate marketing on my platform directly because RAVE isn’t the default LMS payment gateway.
"Best Payment Gateway with PayPal "
Overall: Using flutterwave for over 3years now has been good so far.
Pros: My company uses Flutterwave to create payment links for customers so as to enable them pay however they want. I personally like the fact that they integrated Paypal because most of our foreign clients prefer it. At a point, they stopped offering the PayPal payment option to all vendors and limited it to just registered businesses. As a result, we were forced to register our business with CAC and become a legal entity. Thanks to flutterwave and their seamless payment options.
Cons: Apart from delayed response from customer service at times, I think they should also consider reducing the number of days for dollar payouts.
"Best payment gateway for Africans"
Pros: Rave is very easy to set up and use. It also integrates many African mobile payment methods like orange money, MTN mobile money, express union, and even credit cards.
Cons: There are a lot of failed transactions recorded within my period of use. They upgraded to a be dashboard that was not mobile responsive and did not really look good to me as compared to v2.
"Flutterwave payment processor"
Pros: Flutterwave has a very easy to navigate through dashboard. It takes very few steps to implement. Works well with mobile money.
Cons: They easily go against their own terms and policies. Flutterwave has a continuous record of failed transactions due to one reason or the other.
"RAVE by FLUTTERWAVE; WORTH IT OR NOT"
Overall: Now I can receive payments from my customers directly from their cards. This makes transactions on my website seamless and I’ve seen an increase in sales as a result of integrating RAVE into my platform. Prior to RAVE, integrating payment gateways into my platform used to be a challenge because the giant payment gateways like Stripe and PayPal don’t allow users from certain regions which my country is a part of.
Pros: It allows one to receive payments online from customers' cards directly on their websites even though the business is yet unregistered. Prior to RAVE, I was using PayStack, which was great until they dropped support for businesses who weren’t registered with the government at the time. I had to switch to RAVE so that by business could continue while I underwent registration. Since then, I haven’t looked back.
Cons: While I believe RAVE is a great product, I think they could improve with respect to direct integration with other common and mostly used platforms without needing integration softwares like zapier for instance. For example, even though I integrated RAVE into my LMS with the use of Zapier, its difficult to run affiliate marketing on my platform directly because RAVE isn’t the default LMS payment gateway. Much could be done on this.
"Rave by Flutterwave for payments to African e commerce shops"
Overall: I am certainly solving the problem of receiving payments for goods in Africa by using Rave/Flutterwave.
Pros: Paypal/Payoneer and some of the other big names do not allow e-commerce stores to get payments. Flutterwave does.
Cons: It did take a long time and was quite cumbersome to set up but after the initial frustration, it worked well.
