Join us for an exciting Billing Hackathon focused on transforming the digital payment landscape using Africa's Talking APIs. This event brings together developers, designers, and entrepreneurs to tackle real-world challenges in billing and payments. From creating seamless mobile billing systems to designing innovative customer invoicing platforms, this is your opportunity to shape the future of financial technology in Africa.

We’re calling on developers and innovators to explore how technology can simplify, enhance, and democratize billing solutions for businesses and users alike. Whether you're building for SMEs, large enterprises, or last-mile consumers, this hackathon offers the platform, mentorship, and tools to bring your ideas to life.

Prizes will be awarded to the most innovative, impactful, and technically proficient projects. Beyond the competition, this hackathon is a chance to connect with the Africa's Talking Developer community, gain valuable experience, and potentially kickstart your project with support from Africa's Talking and our partners.

Challenge Ideas:

• SME Invoicing Tool: Design an easy-to-use invoicing and payment tool for small businesses that integrates SMS/USSD notifications and real-time payment updates.
• Multi-Channel Payment Gateway: Develop a mobile-first payment solution that enables customers to receive bills and pay using any preferred method—Mobile Money, Card, or Airtime.
• Utility Billing Integration: Design a billing notification and reminder system for utilities (e.g., water, electricity), complete with payment tracking and customer feedback.
• Subscription Management Solution: Build a comprehensive subscription billing system with automated recurring payments, usage-based billing, and customer self-service portals, incorporating USSD menus for easy subscription management without internet access.

What should you expect as an Attendee:

• Access to Cutting-Edge Tools: Leverage Africa's Talking powerful APIs and SDKs, designed to make implementation seamless and hassle-free.
• Apprenticeship & Support: Work closely with seasoned experts from Africa's Talking who will guide and support you throughout the hackathon as we build with you.
• Networking Opportunities: Join as a member and connect with like-minded individuals, potential collaborators, and industry professionals.
• Cash Prizes, Recognition and Qualify to Join our Marketplace Program: Stand a chance to win exciting prizes, gain recognition for your innovative solutions and
• Impact Africa: Contribute to the economic growth and development of Africa by providing solutions that simplify and enhance payment processes

Target Attendees:

• Fintech Enthusiasts
• UI/UX Designers
• Startup Founders
• Digital Payment Experts
• Data Engineers
• Software Engineers

The winning solution will receive cash prizes as follows:

1. Winner - $100 (Join Marketplace Program)
2. 1st Runners Up - $50
3. 2nd Runners Up - $25

Africa's Talking powers communications solutions across Africa with simplified access to telco infrastructure, developers use our powerful SMS, USSD, Voice, Chat, Airtime and Mobile Data, to bring their ideas to life, as they build and sustain scalable businesses.

Agenda:

1. Warm-Up

• Introductions
• Form teams where need be.
• Feedback
• Feature requests

2. Building/hacking: Code in GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket and deploy in Docker/Automated CI/Travis CI/Bamboo

Note: This section needs additional setup.

Upon commit, the repository is built and deployed to an accessible web server or an S3 bucket.

3. Demonstration and Wrap-up

Teams or individuals will demo what they have hacked for feedback or adoption.

Note: Carry a laptop

Opportunities:

• Network
• Innovate
• Access to our Talent bench (You can get a job or a gig on the spot)

New to Africa's Talking? Get started here:

Publish on Africa's Talking Marketplace

Marketplace : Get Call Back as a Service and Publish your plugin/app for our customer.

Developer Documentation (We welcome feedback)

New to Africa's Talking? Get started here.

Submit your Idea:

• Hackathon idea submission form

Gigs:

We would love to reach out to you so that you can build for our customers, please fill out this form with details to ensure we have your details:

GIG/HACK DEVELOPER PORTFOLIO FORM

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Slack:

Join Africa's Talking slack community here

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@AfricasTalking

@ElarianHQ

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Africa's Talking community allows developers to learn skills for the modern-day African Developer. We are language and framework agnostic. All developers are welcome. This is where Africa's Talking developers community meets to build, learn and exchange knowledge.

We are helping software developers and businesses to bring their ideas to life through easy-to-use APIs easily.

Would you like to partner with us? Kindly contact the Developer Experience Team.