500 Server Error in Sandbox Environment - Urgent Production Concerns

Hello Dwolla Support Team,

I’m experiencing a critical issue with the Dwolla Sandbox API that’s preventing me from completing my integration testing, and I’m concerned about production reliability.

Issue Summary: I’m receiving a 500 server error when attempting to authenticate with the Dwolla Sandbox token endpoint.

Environment Details:

Error Timeline:

  1. Initially encountered an “invalid json response body” error in my Node.js application, receiving HTML (starting with <!DOCTYPE) instead of JSON from the token endpoint

  2. Discovered this was due to a Windows SSL certificate revocation check issue (CRYPT_E_REVOCATION_OFFLINE)

  3. After resolving the SSL issue using --ssl-no-revoke flag in cURL, I’m now receiving a 500 server error when making the token request with proper Basic authentication

Test Command Used:

curl --ssl-no-revoke --request POST \
--url https://api-sandbox.dwolla.com/token \
--header 'Authorization: Basic [base64_encoded_credentials]' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
--data 'grant_type=client_credentials'

Response: HTTP 500 error code

My Concerns: Encountering a 500 server error in the Sandbox environment is deeply concerning as I’m evaluating Dwolla for production use. If the testing environment is experiencing server-side issues, I need assurance that:

  1. This is an isolated incident and not indicative of production reliability

  2. My credentials and account are properly configured

  3. Production environment has better stability and monitoring

What I Need:

  • Immediate investigation into why the token endpoint is returning a 500 error

  • Confirmation that my Sandbox account and credentials are properly configured

  • Assurance about production environment reliability

  • Any X-Request-ID or error logs from your side that can help diagnose this issue

I’m ready to move forward with Dwolla, but I need confidence that the production environment will be stable for my business-critical payment operations.

Thank you for your urgent attention to this matter. Actually am sharing more logs here at errorFrom (C:\Users\User\Documents\us_payroll\node_modules\dwolla-v2\src\dwolla\Token.js:52:15)
at C:\Users\User\Documents\us_payroll\node_modules\dwolla-v2\src\dwolla\Token.js:73:29
at tryCatcher (C:\Users\User\Documents\us_payroll\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\util.js:16:23)
at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (C:\Users\User\Documents\us_payroll\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:547:31)
at Promise._settlePromise (C:\Users\User\Documents\us_payroll\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:604:18)
at Promise._settlePromise0 (C:\Users\User\Documents\us_payroll\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:649:10)
at Promise._settlePromises (C:\Users\User\Documents\us_payroll\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:729:18)
at _drainQueueStep (C:\Users\User\Documents\us_payroll\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:93:12)
at _drainQueue (C:\Users\User\Documents\us_payroll\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:86:9)
at Async._drainQueues (C:\Users\User\Documents\us_payroll\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:102:5)
at Immediate.Async.drainQueues (C:\Users\User\Documents\us_payroll\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:15:14)
at processImmediate (node:internal/timers:485:21) {
status: 500,
headers: Headers {
[Symbol(map)]: [Object: null prototype] {
date: [Array],
‘content-type’: [Array],
‘content-length’: [Array],
connection: [Array],
‘cache-control’: [Array],
expires: [Array],
‘referrer-policy’: [Array],
‘x-frame-options’: [Array],
vary: [Array],
server: [Array],
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POST /api/payouts/plaid/link-employee-funding-source 400 2809.870 ms - 6806

Hi @iano99! Thanks for posting. The timing of your errors aligns with issues we experienced this morning with our API traffic related to the ongoing Cloudflare outage. Cloudflare has implemented a fix and we are monitoring the results.

More info can be found in our status page where you can also subscribe to incident notifications - Dwolla Status - API Errors from Upstream Provider

on its own without doing anything, am now am getting 200 ok

Thanks for the update, @iano99 ! It’s great to hear that your calls are coming through again. We are continuing to closely monitor our API traffic and are working directly with Cloudflare to confirm full stability before resolving the incident on our status page.

Please be assured that outages of this nature are extremely rare for us and caused by a Cloudflare outage, which impacted many services—including ours. In the uncommon event that an issue does arise, we treat it with the highest level of urgency to ensure minimal impact to our customers.

Nice,when I find intergration issues will contact,we building a US PAYROLL ENGINE ,any issue or integration will reach out,I saw you even support processor token for dwolla ,I hope your pricing are not expensive,since we want to live production as soon as possible.

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Sounds great, @iano99! Feel free to reach out to our Sales team here at your convenience - Transform Your Payments Experience | Dwolla!