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Developer experience is the sum of all interactions a developer has with a product, including APIs, SDKs, documentation, content, and community. A good developer experience empowers software engineers, making them feel productive and satisfied throughout their journey with your product.

Paystack is committed to helping businesses across Africa get paid easily. Whether it's through mobile money in Ghana or EFT in South Africa, we're constantly expanding our payment channels and fine-tuning our existing services.

The Developer Contributor Spotlight program highlights software engineers who use Paystack’s APIs to create tools and resources that benefit others. One such developer is Ekene Ashinze, a Software Engineer at Microsoft and the creator of the Angular Paystack Library, a module that enables developers to accept payments in their Angular apps using Paystack.

Last year, we took a deep dive into African fintech in 2022, analyzing the key developments, recurring themes, and emerging trends that we anticipated would play a key role in the new year.

In 2023, we introduced Virtual Terminal in Nigeria, enabling businesses to accept in-person payments swiftly and at scale, with ZERO hardware costs. Today, we’re excited to announce that Virtual Terminal is now available to Paystack merchants in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa.

Every day, thousands of businesses use Paystack's payments tool to accept payments from customers from anywhere in the world. Payments, however, are only one part of a business' financial stack.