The OurPass Blog

Passengers Talk About Their Most Memorable Childhood Presents

In honour of the Children's Day celebrations, Passengers delved into their childhood memories to share the most memorable gifts they received as children.

Spotlight

Guarantee Sales for Your Business: A Conversation with Jay Kaduru, Joseph Don, and Mosun Olukoga.

Making sales can be challenging. As a result, OurPass invited three sales professionals to talk about how small businesses can ensure sales success in these uncertain times.

Product

How QR Pay Can Help Grow Your Small Business

QR Pay is an exciting new way to accept payment. Whether you need to speed up cash flow or want to persuade customers to buy cashless, this payment method could be exactly what your business needs to grow.

Marketing

Avoid stories that touch: How to verify an online vendor

Have you ever bought something online and found out it was fake? Many of us have. It's such a common issue, but what most people don't know is that there are ways to protect yourself and make sure the business you're buying from is legit. Here are simple ways to verify a vendor:

Marketing

Six Ways to Increase your Customer Retention Rate

As a business owner, making a lot of sales is your utmost goal. But have you stopped to think about customer retention, and how it's an important strategy to help you reach that goal? Find out what customer retention really means and how you can use it to grow your business.

Product

How you can increase sales with payment links

A payment link is a secure, easy-to-use way to accept payments from your customers.

“Between me and you, before my role at OurPass, I had no idea what Y Combinator was,” Toluwanimi Onakoya, Content Manager at OurPass

In this piece, Content Manager at OurPass, Toluwanimi Onakoya, shares her most memorable experience working at the fast-paced startup, the challenges she’s faced and her proudest accomplishments to date. Introduce yourself. What do you do at OurPass? I am Toluwanimi Onakoya, the Content Manager at OurPass. I am in

How to survive the rest of the month on less than N5,000

So, there’s no food left at home, your account balance is screaming red, and the end of the month is nowhere close. Here’s how to survive the rest of the month on less than N5000. Garri to the rescue!: Despite the current economy and inflation rate, Garri has

Spotlight

Content Marketing For Small Businesses: A Conversation With Alma Asinobi, May-May Ogoigbe, And Folashade Daini

What are some tips for small business owners who want to work on their content marketing efforts? This is what three industry experts, Alma Asinobi of Chess In Slums, May-May Ogoigbe of The Fifth Alley, and Technical Content Marketer, Folashade Daini have to say.

Company

OurPass releases mobile app update, delivers greater features and better interface

OurPass, Africa's fastest one-click checkout, has released a major update to its mobile app.

Product

5 Things You Probably Didn't Know You Could Do With The OurPass App.

Did you know that OurPass is the fastest one-click checkout solution in Africa? If you did, cheers to you for being a real one. Did you also know that there are many other cool things you can do with OurPass, aside from one-click checkout? Well if you didn’t, you are in luck.

Product

5 Amazing Benefits of OurPass’ Headless Checkout

What is headless checkout? In very simple terms, headless checkout is a payment system that allows you to instantly buy a product at the point of finding it, be it on a promotional email, a sponsored article, an instagram post...

Merchant Stories

“Headless Checkout would really make business easier for me. ” - Tunde of TeeTech

In this interview, we speak to Tunde Damilare, a loyal OurPass merchant, about the struggles of being a small business owner and the ways in which OurPass has made a positive impact on his business.

Product

5 customers say what they love most about the OurPass App

The OurPass App has been downloaded more than 5,000 times, and we thought we'd let the most recent customers explain why they're so in love with it. From the ease of use to the great features, read on and see what they had to say!

Culture

6 Ways to treat yourself this Easter

It's almost Easter, so if you're looking for a few ways to treat yourself and celebrate this holiday, here are some ideas:

Product

How does headless checkout work?

Headless checkout is the future of e-commerce! Is it possible you've never heard of this technology? If that's the case, read on to get acquainted with this exciting innovation, designed to make shopping seamless.

Company

OurPass, Launches Headless Checkout Solution, Guarantees A Seamless Shopping Experience For Businesses and Shoppers.

OurPass, Africa’s fastest one-click checkout solution for e-commerce, announced today the launch of its headless checkout product, an innovative technology that enables consumers to buy from their favourite stores, anywhere.

Culture

Life At Ourpass: Introducing Kartikey Bhatia

Customer service is an integral part of the success of any business, OurPass included. Kartikey Bhatia, the Customer Success Manager at OurPass, walks us through his experience at the blooming startup.

Product

How does OurPass work?

So you've heard about OurPass but aren't sure what it's all about. Great, you are in the right place.

Culture

Passengers Reveal The Worst April Fools' Jokes They’ve Experienced

To celebrate April Fools' Day, we posed a question to our OurPass community, asking tribe members to share the worst April Fools’ pranks they’ve experienced.

Merchant Stories

“Yes, you're going to be afraid, but you have to do it afraid!” — Aisha Ife

In this interview, OurPass talks to passionate photographer and loyal OurPass merchant, Aisha Ife. We cover much of her background and career accomplishments, as well as her inspirations in life.

Spotlight

“I’ve been in a situation where a male counterpart, in the same role, was earning more than me.” — Peace Obinani

In this interview, OurPass speaks to Peace Obinani, a prolific product marketing manager, about working in a male-dominated industry and her experience as a tech expert.

Merchant Stories

‘People would say get married, live in your husband's house’- Zainab, Mint Eyewear’s Founder, talks on navigating life as a career woman

Zainab Sarumi is the inspiration behind Mint Eyewear and a loyal OurPass merchant. The brand has been built on a unique vision of providing great products at a very attractive price...

Product

Shoppers, You're Doing It Wrong. Here's How To Shop The Fast, Safe and Easy Way

Imagine you could have a faster and safer way to buy. One that is secure and flexible. You can go mobile, or desktop, or do it on your TV. It would be like going through the checkout line at the mall– except this line moves quickly, you can do it while frying plantain...

Spotlight

#Breakthebias: A Conversation with Blessing Abeng, Mobola Akingbala, and Olurémi Martins-Areola

In celebration of IWD, OurPass sat down with three exceptional women – Blessing Abeng, Co-founder and Director of Communications at Ingressive for Good; Mobola Akingbala, CMO Hirefoster; and Olurémi Martins-Areola, Founder & Chief Experience Officer, NaturalGirlWigs.