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Building the financial backend for WhatsApp commerce in Nigeria.

[Evanson @iamevanson]

I'm building the backend for how Nigerian businesses actually sell.

Millions of businesses run on WhatsApp.

Orders. Prices. Payments. Delivery.

All happening inside chat threads.

The chat works.

What's missing is the system of record underneath it.

That's what I'm building.

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Fake bank-transfer alert apps are a real business in Nigeria.

So "send me the screenshot" isn't payment verification. It's payment theatre.

Read the screenshot if it arrives. But confirm against the bank data.

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The chat interface for African commerce is solved. It's WhatsApp, and has been for a decade.

What's missing is the ledger underneath. No system knows an order was agreed, the transfer landed, or where the goods went.

An interface with no backend.

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The safety net that lets us stop worrying about detection accuracy:

It never creates an order itself. It proposes one privately to the merchant, who taps YES or corrects the price.

A wrong guess costs one reply. Imperfect extraction stops being existential.

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Built a mode in which the system negotiated with customers using the merchant's number. Reversed it after production testing.

It replied mid-negotiation, talking over merchants as they closed deals.

Merchants don't want a salesperson. They want a bookkeeper that never speaks.

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Every WhatsApp commerce tool assumes a fixed-price catalogue.

A real order:
"How much for 10 bags?"
"₦45,000"
"Abeg do ₦40k na"
"₦42,000 final"
"Okay deal"

The binding price is ₦42,000. Nothing in that thread was ever labelled "final price."

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