Payment Webhooks and Status Visibility | Dwolla

Real-Time Notifications

On the Dwolla Platform, webhooks provide clients real-time data and notifications about activity happening on their platform or application.

The Benefits of Webhooks

Webhooks form a great foundation for building a reactive and scalable application. You can use them to update components in the front end of your application and notify your users of status changes. Being able to reliably consume these events and use them to identify and react to problems can give peace of mind for automated, day-to-day activities.

Scalable Messengers

Each Dwolla client can receive webhooks by creating a webhook subscription. The Dwolla Platform can tailor webhooks to customer needs, scaling from single-threaded delivery for small workloads to thousands of parallel requests that notify customers the moment an event happens.

Stay Up-to-Date

As events happen within your application, webhooks are delivered in near real-time.

Consistent Across Banking Partners

Dwolla provides standardized, consistent webhooks across all our banking partners - no need to configure and process multiple webhook setups.

“Our return on investment was almost immediate. We were able to get up and running in no time with Dwolla’s straightforward API. Dwolla’s flexible options such as same day ACH gave us the flexibility our customers demanded.”
Real Estate Company Chief Product Officer

Automate your payments in as little as ten days.

Dwolla's full-service approach replaces legacy payments technology with a single solution, improving security, data visibility and the customer experience.

Know what happened. Know why. Know instantly.

Dwolla's webhook system delivers real-time payment status updates to your systems. Every state change, every exception, every rail, reported consistently.

Key Benefits

Real-Time Status Updates

Receive webhook events for every payment state change: created, pending, completed, failed, returned. No polling required.

Consistent Across Rails

ACH and real-time payments emit the same event types with the same data structure. One webhook handler covers all your payment rails.

Retry and Reliability

Missed a webhook? Dwolla retries with exponential backoff. Subscription management and event replay help keep your systems in sync.

Detailed Event Payloads

Every webhook includes the payment ID, status, rail, amount, timestamp, and any error details. Everything your reconciliation system needs.

How It Works

From integration to production

A clear path from first API call to live payment operations.

  1. Subscribe to events
    Register your webhook endpoint with Dwolla and select which event types you want to receive. Filter by payment type, status, or customer.

  2. Handle events in your system
    Process incoming webhooks to update your internal records, trigger notifications, or kick off reconciliation workflows automatically.

  3. Monitor and troubleshoot
    View webhook delivery logs in the dashboard. See which events were delivered, which failed, and replay any missed events.

Built for Scale

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Build payment visibility into your product

See how Dwolla's webhooks give your team real-time payment tracking without polling or manual status checks.