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Bob Mwenda is a software engineer at Statum with over ten years of experience building business applications and integrating enterprise systems. His work spans Java, Spring Boot, PHP, Laravel and Vue.js, including API integrations, payment and messaging systems, and application deployment. On the Statum blog, Bob writes about software development, business automation and the practical decisions behind building and maintaining software. His articles help business owners and developers understand implementation options, technical trade-offs and common pitfalls.
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See how Kenya's 2026 PAYE bands, Year 4 NSSF, SHIF and Housing Levy shape take-home pay, with checked examples from KSh 30,000 to KSh 200,000.
See Statum's published starting prices for software projects in Kenya, what changes the cost, and how to plan for hosting, support and future improvements.
A worked first-release brief for a hypothetical distributor, including peak usage, hosting ownership, migration and measurable acceptance checks.
Use this checklist to decide whether an M-Pesa integration is ready for production. Each critical check has evidence, an owner, and a clear pass rule.
Compare candidate workflows by frequency, cost, failure impact, rules, measurement and readiness using a weighted example.
Compare process improvement, configured software, integration and custom development against your real workflow, costs, constraints and support capacity.
A planning guide to the WhatsApp bot and M-Pesa journey, inbound and delivery-status webhooks, secure event handling, payment confirmation and human handoff.
A product-aware guide to M-Pesa callback states, idempotent processing and reconciliation for duplicate, late, unmatched, mismatched and reversed payments.
An updated Laravel 12 deployment guide with a workflow outline, repeatable release directories, shared storage setup, health checks and rollback steps.