International Currency Payment Options: Seeking a Developer to Assist

Topic summary

Nigerian e-commerce retailer of UK fast fashion for women aims to expand from Nigeria into Ghana and Kenya. Goal: accept local payments and show prices in each country’s currency to reduce conversion friction.

Shopify Payments is unavailable for their region and does not support the needed markets. They want to use African payment processors—Paystack and Flutterwave (supporting cards and mobile money)—and have prices in local currencies visible on product pages and at checkout.

Request: a developer/technical partner to (1) integrate Paystack and Flutterwave with their Shopify store and (2) implement multi-currency pricing across the storefront and checkout. They prefer hands-on implementation over DIY guidance, though explanations are welcome.

Key terms: Shopify Payments = Shopify’s native payment gateway; Paystack/Flutterwave = African processors; mobile money = phone-based payment method common in Ghana/Kenya.

Status: Open request; no solution yet. Category: Store Design. Tags: Setting-Up, apps, liquid.

Summarized with AI on December 16. AI used: gpt-5.

Hello, hopefully this is the right platform to post this.

We are a Nigerian based African e-commerce business selling UK fast fashion brands to women in Africa. Currently we’re operational in Nigeria but we want to expand to Ghana and Kenya as soon as possible. Therefore we’re looking for a way to accept payments and serve customers in these countries.

I contacted someone from Shopify Support and they mentioned that Shopify payments does not support this (plus Shopify payments aren’t enabled for our region), so we want to be able to use our African payment processors (Paystack and Flutterwave) to display prices in local African currencies for product listings and also at the checkout as it’s really complex for customers to convert the price from one African currency to another especially if they’re not familiar with Nigerian Naira. Online payments in these countries are primarily done through mobile money, which Paystack and Flutterwave will help us process.

We’re looking for a developer who can help us integrate our third party processor (Paystack, Flutterwave) and also display our prices in different currencies on our website for the product prices and at checkout. I am not a technical person, so I would rather have someone come in and do this for us rather than explain. I mean all explanations are welcomed, but we’d love to find a technical partner that can help us with this.

Thank you so much

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