Case Study: Florida Education Association achieves scalable union dues collection with Dwolla

Florida Education Association scales dues payments to 180,000 monthly transactions with Dwolla

The Florida Education Association (FEA), representing over 120,000 educators, faced a crisis when new state legislation prohibited payroll deduction for union dues. They needed a new, cost-effective, secure, and scalable payment mechanism to collect dues from their members. They partnered with Dwolla to implement an account-to-account (A2A) payments solution.

Dwolla's flexible and secure API allowed the FEA to quickly build a customized payment system that mimicked payroll deduction. Within six months, FEA scaled to processing over 180,000 transactions monthly for more than 100,000 members. Dwolla's solution provided the security, affordability, and scalability that turned a potential crisis into an opportunity, enabling FEA to outperform other states facing similar challenges.

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