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African payment integration requires 11 weeks of multi-provider engineering

E-commerce startups expanding across Africa must integrate separately with multiple regional payment providers, consuming 11+ weeks of engineering time before processing a single transaction. Each provider has distinct APIs, dashboards, and settlement flows with no unified abstraction layer available.

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