Paystack course for developers

The course page lists these modules. Here is what each one covers, in order.

1. Foundations. What Paystack is, how it works technically, account setup, the API architecture and your first API call.
2. Accepting payments. Initialising transactions and the redirect flow, the inline JS popup, verifying transactions, payment channels, metadata and custom fields, and a complete payment form.
3. Webhooks in depth. Webhook architecture and setup, verifying signatures, processing charge.success events, idempotency and retries, logging and debugging.
4. Recurring payments. Tokenisation, charging returning customers, plans and subscriptions, and the subscription lifecycle.
5. Transfers and payouts. When to use transfers, creating recipients, single and bulk transfers, transfer webhooks and verification.
6. Subaccounts and splits. Marketplace architecture, creating and managing subaccounts, split payments and multi-split.
7. Refunds, disputes and advanced topics. Processing refunds, handling disputes, dedicated virtual accounts and multi-currency transactions.
8. Testing and going live. Test mode, simulating scenarios, a going-live checklist, production monitoring and error handling.
9. Capstone: Storepay. A project built across ten lessons: architecture, backend routes, checkout, a webhook handler, subscription billing, vendor payouts, refunds, a React frontend, an admin dashboard and deployment.

The first module is a free preview, so you can look before you pay.

Developers who build for the African market. The course page does not state a prerequisite level, so open the free preview module first and see if the pace fits you.

Not ready to enrol? Our free engineering guides cover the parts that break most often:

• Paystack webhooks: the complete engineering guide
• Verify transaction: the Paystack call you must never skip
• Testing Paystack integrations: the complete guide

If you would rather have Paystack live in your product than learn to wire it yourself, our studio builds payments integrations. We also teach the course, which is why the studio and the lessons match.