CARICOM · BB · BBD
Barbados runs on the BBD at a fixed 2.00 to the US dollar. A peg that stable tempts a team into treating two currencies as one thing, which is where the money bugs live.
Not decoration. Every one of them is a field in something we have shipped.
| Territory code | BB (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) |
|---|---|
| Currency | BBD, pegged at 2.00 to US$1.00 |
| Time zone | America/Barbados. No daylight saving. |
| Dialling code | +1 246. E.164 digits, no plus and no spaces, for any WhatsApp link |
| Main town | Bridgetown |
| Working language | English |
| Regional bloc | CARICOM (full member) |
| Coordinates | 13.1132, -59.5988 |
Money in Barbados. Barbados is on the Barbados dollar (BBD), pegged at 2.00 to US$1.00. A stable peg is a gift and a trap: because the rate does not move, teams start treating the two currencies as interchangeable.
They are not. An amount is a number and a currency, and two amounts in different currencies added together are a number in no currency. We store integer minor units with a currency code, convert only at an explicit boundary, and never compare across currencies without converting first.
Four lines, one studio. The same stack builds all of them, which is why the hardware and the app talk to each other.
Tier 1 · Fete Labs
Product engineering for businesses and institutions in Barbados: web applications, back offices, booking and ordering systems, payments integration and the data layer underneath them. Scalable architecture, type-safe low-latency code, infrastructure built to stay up.
Brief the labTier 1 · Seed
The FetePASS ecosystem covers Barbados as one of twenty-nine island editions: tickets, food, bookings and a local feed on one pass. Currently in private preview.
See FetePASSTier 2 · Hardware
Outdoor hotspot hardware for venues, events and public spaces. Lab Release 01, and the proof that this studio ships things you can touch as well as things you can log into. Agents wanted in Barbados.
Become an agentTier 3 · Starter Lab
For new and young businesses: a managed domain-and-site lease where we handle everything, or a custom launch on a domain you already own, built and handed over with the keys.
Starter LabGreat-circle distances from Bridgetown, computed rather than guessed. A business in Barbados usually sells into these before it sells anywhere else.