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Payments & rent collection

Dwolla

Dwolla provides bank payment infrastructure through a single API. It runs ACH, Same Day ACH and real-time payments over the RTP Network and the FedNow Service behind one integration, with consistent status tracking, error handling, controls and reporting across every rail so a platform does not have to stitch providers together as volume grows.

Two products sit on that base. Dwolla Balance embeds a digital wallet so a platform can hold funds on-platform and initiate faster, more flexible transfers. Dwolla Connect integrates directly with a customer's existing bank relationships and maintains that single point of connection on their behalf. Open banking features add instant account verification, balance checks, tokenization and fraud controls with 24/7 monitoring, and mass pay disburses to thousands of recipients in one API request. The company supplies developer documentation, a sandbox for testing payment flows and edge cases before go-live, and a dedicated integration team.

Real estate is a named industry: the site describes automating rent, deposits, refunds and owner payouts, and replacing paper checks and manual account-to-account files for vendor and supplier payments. Other named verticals include lending, buy-now-pay-later, insurance, healthcare and B2B payments. Dwolla has been providing its API since 2008, says it now moves tens of billions of dollars a year, and cites 126M+ annual transactions.

Dwolla sells to platforms and enterprises rather than to individual landlords, and the pages crawled publish no plan prices or per-transaction fees. Expect an implementation project, and ask for pricing at your own volume.

Best for

Platforms and operators with enough payment volume to justify building on an API, such as property management software, rent collection platforms and investor distribution tools. Owners wanting an off-the-shelf rent app should look elsewhere.

What they do

  • ACH and Same Day ACH transfers
  • Real-time payments via RTP and FedNow
  • Mass pay disbursements
  • Instant bank account verification
  • Balance checks and fraud controls
  • Embedded digital wallet
  • Direct bank integration
  • Payment reporting and reconciliation
  • Developer sandbox and API documentation

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What stands out

  • Runs ACH, Same Day ACH, RTP and FedNow behind one integration with consistent status and error handling.
  • The site cites 126M+ annual transactions on the platform.
  • Has been providing its bank payments API since 2008.
  • Named real estate uses include automating rent, deposits, refunds and owner payouts.