9 Dwolla tools for small business

Here at Dwolla, we’ve always been a strong supporter of small business. Here are 9 free tools that we’ve built to improve the lives of small business owners:

1. Guest Checkout & Off-site Gateway

Guest checkout allows your customers to pay with Dwolla even if they don’t have a Dwolla account. Off-site gateway allows users to easily navigate between both your site and Dwolla’s secure site for payment, then directs users back to your site.

2. MassPay

MassPay allows companies to send up to 2,000 transactions at once by manually, or programmatically, uploading a CSV file with payout amounts and destinations (email addresses or phone numbers). Once the payout is initiated, end-users get either an email or SMS notification explaining that they’ve received money.

3. HUB Page

Create your own personal landing page to accept payments. Customers can make one-time payments here, or easily set up a recurring payment.

4. Referral Program

Send referrals to your clients. Each successful Dwolla referral will earn you $10 in free transactions, or 40 free transactions over $10.

5. Dwolla Buttons

Create your customizable Dwolla button to display on your site. You can also use our pre-made buttons to promote that others pay or donate with Dwolla on your site.

6. Auto-withdrawal

Set up auto-withdrawal so that you don’t have to manually log in to make withdraws to your financial institution. Simply log in to your account, go to Account Settings, and switch Auto Withdrawal to “Enabled.”

7. Recurring Payments

Have customers set up a recurring payment to your business so that they don’t have to log in each time to send you a repeating payment. They can choose to pay you on a weekly, bimonthly or monthly schedule.

8. Real-time Incoming Transactions

Monitor incoming Dwolla transactions in real-time by logging into dwolla.com/kiosk, downloading the Dwolla Merchant app, or using Allowd. Allowd is a platform that enables you to make sub-accounts for employees to have individual logins and monitor incoming payments on behalf of your business.

9. Dwolla Map

Have your business show up on the Dwolla Spots map or in the AroundMe tab on the mobile app.

*Bonus: Developer Portal

Whether you are a developer or a business developer, our developer portal gives you a lot of great information for you to use when building Dwolla into your business.

If you’re not already, start using Dwolla at your small business today!

Soul Dancer

would be thrilled to see an automated way to create a button that allows recurring payments . . .

would be nice to see affiliate program embedded into my hub page (such that when folks register from my hub page, I receive a referral from it.)
- CaityJones
  
  I agree, it would be nice if you could create a recurring payment option through the customizable buttons (http://blog.dwolla.com/pay-now-button/). I’ll be sure to pass that on to our dev team.
  
  Have you thought about linking your HUB page to a pre-made Dwolla button (http://help.dwolla.com/customer/portal/articles/217452-dwolla-buttons-for-your-website)? Your customers will be able to set up recurring payments through the HUB. You can check out my page here: https://www.dwolla.com/hub/caitlin. Would this work for what you had in mind?
  
  Also – great idea about the referral program on the HUB page.
Joe Bechtold

Ditto Soul Dancer’s comment – How about a button for my website directing site visitors to a page to set up a recurring payment program? I am initiating a monthly payment plan and would love to get folks using Dwolla for their automated monthly payments.
- CaityJones
  
  Hi Joe – have you seen the HUB pages? Here’s mine for an example: https://www.dwolla.com/hub/caitlin. Your customers can easily set up a recurring payment from there. On top of that, the HUB page comes with a customizable URL that you can link to a Dwolla button or whatever you prefer.
Brian

Is anyone using Recurring Payments? How long and what is there a max volume?

I sell B2B and invoice monthly. About 200 clients, service price $165 to $800. All my clients are retail or service businesses.

Thanks

Brian
- CaityJones
  
  Hi Brian –
  
  Schedule can be monthly, bimonthy, and weekly. Max transaction amount for businesses is $10,000 in one transaction, no limit on number of transactions. (However, we have made it possible to increase this $10,000 limit: https://www.dwolla.com/limits ). Personal account max transaction is $5,000 in one transaction.
  
  Hope this helps!
guamblogger

so…i keep looking and cannot find how to make a button for easy donations (like paypal) that i can use on my blog. your button maker page insists on a ‘supplied amount’ and does not let the person choose and amount to donate….and i am assuming that in order to create my own button and link it to a hub page would then mean that anyone wanting to donate that way would have to first sign up for a dwolla account….is this an accurate assessment?
- CaityJones
  
  Have you had a chance to look at these buttons that have already been made? http://help.dwolla.com/customer/portal/articles/217452-dwolla-buttons-for-your-website You can drop in the ‘Donate with Dwolla’ button image and easily link it to a HUB page. Anyone wanting to donate with Dwolla will have to have a Dwolla account, unless you integrate the Guest Checkout option: http://blog.dwolla.com/guest-checkout/. However, this does require technical work.

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