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by timrosenblatt 4441 days ago
rush-tea: have you seen https://www.dwolla.com ?

If you've seen it before, why did you choose to not use it?

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Hi Tim,

I heard of dwolla before, but I have not really reading into it until now.

It appears dwolla is connecting payment to user bank account, hence ability to avoid ~3% cc payment.

Does dwolla support international currency (or integration with many countries local bank)? I am looking for this option for international users that do not have credit card and want to use their local non USD bank account to pay in USD.

As I understand, Paypal integrates their system deeply with many local banks around the world, hence high rate of user adoption as it allows them to use their bank fund to pay anyone anywhere using almost any currencies + to avoid credit card foreign transaction fee.

I would advise you to first speak with the Dwolla team to find out if they support your country yet.

Their transparency is 10 times better than anything else I've ever come across, they are cheap too.

I just clicked their FAQ and found this

http://help.dwolla.com/customer/portal/articles/1181769-inte...

Dwolla does not support other countries local banks, so only US banks.