Interswitch Offers Product Developers Access to Application Programmable Interfaces
Interswitch, Africa’s integrated payments and digital commerce company, is providing technology developers in Nigeria with the appropriate tools to create new digital products and solutions with ease.
At the Interswitch Developers’ Summit which held in Abuja recently, developers from all over the city gathered to learn more about the remarkable possibilities that Interswitch Application Programmable Interfaces (APIs) offer.
Tochukwu Achebe, products and developers relations executive at Interswitch, while addressing the group of developers at the summit, said the API plugin would enable businesses to generate their Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), Quick Response (QR) code and wallet.
Achebe said the API would enable developers across Africa to innovate and automate their businesses seamlessly, irrespective of the kind of services they offer, while hinting that the API marketplace will be unveiled in the first quarter of 2022.
“With our developer community, we are building an ecosystem where we can receive feedback, go to markets quickly with our solutions and create an opportunity for everyone to integrate and build their solutions seamlessly around the APIs. We have also created a sandbox to allow developers to test API end points and confirm their effectiveness,”Achebe said.
Jeffrey Williams-Edem, group head, Business, Merchant Acquiring at Interswitch, said the organisation created a platform and an ecosystem that allows developers to build Point of Sale (POS) applications.
Williams-Edemlisted some of the recent improvements made on the Quickteller payment platform and the POS terminals.
According to Williams-Edem, users of the Quickteller Business app would be able to view real-time data on settlement and refunds and also initiate dispute settlement.
He pointed out that the storefront; payment link; electronic invoicing; transaction status; customer data and insights coupled with payment on the web and POS are some of the functions that have been integrated into the platform.
