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- Developers We cut our MCP server's token bill by 95%. The tool count had nothing to do with it Finding one payment cost an AI agent 51,561 tokens. Now it costs 832. How we measured our MCP server, and the four changes that cut its token use by 95%. Read the post · 7 min read
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- Developers Introducing the official Bachs SDKs for Node.js and Python @bachs/sdk 2.0.0 and bachs 2.0.0 are here: typed clients for Node.js and Python with safe retries, webhook verification and lists that page themselves. Read the post · 4 min read
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- Guides How to accept mobile money payments in Kenya and Ghana How M-PESA and MTN MoMo payments work, why they matter for selling in Kenya and Ghana, and how to accept them without a local business. Read the post · 4 min read Abubakar YinusaBachs
- Guides How to charge USD subscriptions from Nigeria How Nigerian SaaS companies can bill international customers in USD: recurring card payments, failed-payment recovery, trials and getting the dollars out. Read the post · 4 min read Abubakar YinusaBachs
- Guides How long does a bank transfer take in Nigeria? Most transfers in Nigeria arrive in seconds. Here is why some take longer, what to do when you are debited but the money has not arrived, and how reversals work. Read the post · 4 min read Bachs TeamThe team building Bachs
- Guides NGN bank transfers: a complete guide for businesses How NGN bank transfers work, what they cost in 2026, why they fail, and how businesses can accept and reconcile them at scale. Read the post · 6 min read Bachs TeamThe team building Bachs
- Community How FLOSSAfrica funds African open-source maintainers Kelvin Omereshone's FLOSSAfrica helps African open-source maintainers get discovered and funded by sponsors, with Bachs Connect handling payments. Read the post · 3 min read Bachs TeamThe team building Bachs
- Product Virtual accounts in Nigeria: a permanent number for bank transfers A permanent NGN account number your customers can save and pay any time. Every deposit reaches your balance straight away, with the sender's details. Read the post · 5 min read Abubakar YinusaBachs
- Developers How to test webhooks locally without ngrok or a tunnel Forward real, signed webhook events to localhost, trigger test events without a payment and replay failures, all from the Bachs CLI. Read the post · 5 min read Abubakar YinusaBachs
- Product Global Payouts: Move money across banks, mobile money and stablecoins Send your Bachs balance to bank accounts in nine currencies, mobile money in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania, and USDT or USDC wallets. Read the post · 4 min read Bachs TeamThe team building Bachs
- Guides How to accept payments across Africa and settle in USD or NGN Your customers pay in their own currency, with the method they already use. You settle in USD or NGN. Here is how money moves from checkout to your bank account. Read the post · 6 min read Abubakar YinusaBachs
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