Account to Account Payment Service Provider Educational Resources

EBOOK

Comparing Payment Methods

Explaining the differences between a Real-Time Payment, ACH Payment, Push-to-Debit Payment and Wire transfer using Dwolla’s payment technology.

PODCAST — 20 min listen

Fintech Growth Talk: Moving Money From Account to Account

Dwolla President and COO Dave Glaser explains the three key pillars of Open Banking and how they work together to quickly and reliably move money between bank accounts.

PODCAST — 23 min listen

GrowthCap: Finding Affordable Payment Options

Dwolla CEO Brady Harris discusses the pricing differences between credit card transactions and bank transfers, along with the future of the fintech industry.

PODCAST

Payments on Fire Podcast: Programming Payments Using a Few Lines of Code

Listen in to a discussion on the growth of B2B payments and enterprise interest in faster payments.

REPORT

Executive Insights: The State of Real-Time Payments

New research shows businesses are ready and willing to adopt RTP–so, what’s holding adoption back?

GUIDE — 6 min read

Going Live With Dwolla

Prepare your business to integrate modern payments technology and complete the application approval process.

GLOSSARY

A Glossary of RTP Keywords

The key terms used to describe how real-time payments work.

WHITE PAPER

Innovating on the ACH Network: How Businesses Program Their Payments

The COVID-19 pandemic reminded businesses that offering a digital payment option is more important than ever before. Customers expect a seamless payment experience that Dwolla is delivering through the ACH Network.

PODCAST — 30 min listen

Code Story: Golf Course Software Offering ACH Payments

foreUp is a software that’s streamlining golf course schedule and management. foreUp CTO Brendon Beebe joins the Code Story podcast to discuss the development of the product.

GUIDE

Best Practices for Customer Verification

Create, embed and manage an effective Know Your Customer (KYC) framework to understand the types of users and their transaction activity on your platform.

GUIDE — 10 min read

Digital Payment Transfer Times

Knowing when a bank transfer was initiated allows you to reliably predict its processing time.

GUIDE — 5 min read

Managing Team Member Permissions in the Dwolla Dashboard

Each team member needs their own login and password to access your dashboard.

GUIDE — 11 min read

FAQs for Utilizing Dwolla’s API

Answers to the questions businesses ask most after integrating Dwolla’s payment platform.

PODCAST — 37 min listen

Code Story: Powering Digital Trust & Safety

Sift offers fraud prevention tools to businesses and its CEO Jason Tan joins the Code Story Podcast to discuss playing defense against potential fraudsters.

GUIDE — 2 min read

Sending Funds Using the Dwolla Dashboard

For Pay-As-You-Go customers, this is a step-by-step guide to sending funds from the Dwolla Dashboard.

GLOSSARY

ACH Return Code Glossary

With nearly 70 ACH return codes, this is a resource explaining the variety of reasons an ACH transaction could be returned.

VIDEO — 14 min watch

Understanding the Risks and Returns of ACH Payments

ACH payments provide a lot of conveniences for businesses. Understanding the potential risks of these payments and some best practices for ACH risk management can help prevent potential problems from occurring. This webinar explains ACH risk management.

PODCAST — 27 min listen

Code Story: Lending Between Friends & Family

This Code Story episode features Dennis Cail, CEO & Co-Founder of Zirtue, a mobile lending app for borrowing money between friends and family.

GUIDE

Two-Factor Authentication: A Standard in Security

Understand the importance and the benefits of two-factor authentication for your business.

PLAYBOOK — 12 min read

Building an Online Marketplace with Automated Payments

Building an online marketplace requires having an online payment solution that can efficiently move money to and from bank accounts. Learn how top marketplaces do it.

TOOL — 8 min read

Interactive Demo: Build Your App on the Dwolla API

Interact with this demo to learn about how integrating with Dwolla’s platform could benefit your business.

TOOL

Payments Calculator Presented by Nacha

Presented by Nacha, the governing body of the ACH Network, use our cost calculator to estimate how much you’re overpaying for payments.

PODCAST — 27 min listen

Code Story: Enabling Smarter Living

This episode of the Code Story podcast is a conversation with Blake Miller, Founder of Homebase, a property management platform enabling the “future of living.”

GUIDE — 5 min read

What to Consider When Choosing a Payment Platform

Payment platforms help businesses use technology to move money more efficiently. Here's what to consider before integrating with one.

PODCAST — 32 min listen

Code Story: Bringing Automation to Oil & Gas

Aalok Shah, Chief Technology Officer for EnergyFunders, describes the intricacies of merging technology and automation to support innovation in a traditionally manual industry.

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PODCAST — 37 min listen

Code Story: Routable Infiltrates Finance Departments

Omri Mor is the CEO and Co-Founder of Routable, an invoicing platform streamlining business-to-business payments for customers like Slack and Ticketmaster.

WEBINAR — 10 min watch

Pairing Bank Account Verification with an ACH API

This short webinar explains how businesses are integrating both Plaid and Dwolla into their applications to provide a seamless payment experience for their end users.

PODCAST — 29 min listen

Code Story: Simplifying Money Movement

Ben Milne, CEO and Co-Founder of Dwolla, discusses building a company and how Dwolla is solving a complex and fundamental business problem.

PODCAST — 38 min listen

Code Story: Creating Generational Wealth Opportunities

Hear lessons learned as a first-time entrepreneur, directly from a startup co-founder.

EBOOK — 6 min read

Influencing Faster Payments & Regulations with the Federal Register

Payments professionals understand the importance of faster payments. As consumer expectations grow, we as an industry can influence the process to make payments more beneficial with this guide.

GUIDE — 2 min read

2021 Banking Holiday Calendar

View this PDF to see a calendar view of the 2021 bank holidays and how those dates will impact your ACH payments.

WHITE PAPER — 30 min read

Building and Maturing an Information Security Program

Dwolla takes information security seriously—so should your business. This white paper goes into detail on the latest InfoSec practices to protect you, your business and your customers.

GUIDE — 8 min read

Comparing a Payments Provider vs. Handling Payments In-House

Breaking down the benefits of building your own solution vs. integrating with a third-party provider.

VIDEO — 17 min watch

Dwolla API Platform Demo Showcase

Watch this platform demo to learn more about the Dwolla API, the developer-friendly resources to integrate and the steps to integrate with Dwolla by use case and funds flow.

GLOSSARY — 6 min read

A Glossary of ACH Keywords

Understand the terms used to describe the incredibly powerful ACH Network.

VIDEO — 57 min watch

Serverless Webhooks

Dwolla’s engineering team launched an updated webhook notifications architecture, cutting delivery times during peak load from minutes to seconds. Watch the presentation to learn more about how this change impacted the Dwolla Platform.

WEBINAR — 6 min watch

A Dwolla Balance Provides Wallet Functionality to Your End Users

Watch this webinar to learn more about Dwolla’s wallet functionality, customer requirements for holding a balance and real world use cases where wallets are utilized.

EBOOK — 24 min read

ACH 101: Connecting your Business to the ACH Network

Learn the basics of the ACH Network and how ACH benefits businesses of all sizes.

WEBINAR — 15 min watch

5 Steps to a Successful Payments Integration

A successful payments integration can take a company, its service and functionality to the next level. Watch to learn more about the 5 steps to successfully integrating a payments platform.

WHITE PAPER — 13 min read

Dwolla’s InfoSec Philosophy

With this white paper we want to share how Dwolla does security and the thoughtful approach Dwolla takes with InfoSec.

Case Studies: How Businesses Are Using Dwolla

We’re saving businesses in all industries time and money by helping them offer online payments to their customers. These case studies explain the Dwolla integration process and their return on investment.

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Interact with Dwolla’s API and test how your application interacts with the Dwolla Platform.

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