Puerto Rico uses the US dollar outright, which removes one problem and plants another: it is easy to assume the next island over does the same. An hour away, it does not.
Not decoration. Every one of them is a field in something we have shipped.
Puerto Rico, build parameters
Territory code
PR (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2)
Currency
USD, used directly
Time zone
America/Puerto_Rico. No daylight saving.
Dialling code
+1 787. E.164 digits, no plus and no spaces, for any WhatsApp link
Main town
San Juan
Working language
Spanish and English
Regional bloc
Wider Caribbean basin
Coordinates
18.4655, -66.1057
Money in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico uses the US dollar outright, which removes the conversion problem and creates a different one: it is easy to assume the rest of the region does too. It does not — a neighbouring island an hour away may be on a pegged EC dollar or a floating rate.
Even here every amount carries its currency code. A field that is "obviously dollars" is the field that breaks the day the product crosses a border.
What the lab ships in Puerto Rico
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
Custom software for Puerto Rico
Product engineering for businesses and institutions in Puerto Rico: 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.
The FetePASS ecosystem covers Puerto Rico as one of twenty-nine island editions: tickets, food, bookings and a local feed on one pass. Currently in private preview.
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 Puerto Rico.
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.