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Sila Overview

What is Sila?

Sila’s banking-as-a-service platform offers payment APIs and digital wallets for financial products, fintech, Web3, and crypto projects. Sila’s platform processes ACH payments and supports KYC/KYB, banking operations, compliance, storing funds, and ledgering. We are the end-to-end payment platform that makes money programmable.

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Sila is the quickest and easiest way to integrate your applications into the financial world. Coupling regulatory compliance with pay-as-you-go pricing and ease-of-access, we will have you up and running in no time.


Seller Details
Seller
Sila Inc.
Year Founded
2018
HQ Location
Portland, US
Twitter
@SilaMoney
3,394 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
61 employees on LinkedIn®

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4.5 out of 5
"Great partner!"
They've been an incredibly helpful partner for our business.
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David W.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"The best B2B experience I've had"
Sila is incredible to work with. They are responsive, helpful, and willing to go the extra mile to make connections and brainstorm solutions to hel...
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"Canceled my service before launch, wasted 1yr of development costs."
They were able to work with me to accommodate my situation and my app development. Unfortunately they changed their mind 1 week before launching on...
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Sila Demo - Sila Sandbox
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David W.
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What do you like best about Sila?

Sila is incredible to work with. They are responsive, helpful, and willing to go the extra mile to make connections and brainstorm solutions to help their partners.

I really can't overstate how wonderful it is to work with them. Interactions feel human and genuine.

On a technical level, the APIs are easy to work with and documentation is good. If anything is missing or out of date, they reply quickly and amend the documentation right away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sila?

The only thing I'd really love to see from Sila is yield support. For us, being able to pass an APY back to our users would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sila solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sila functions as our primary BaaS and KYC partner - enablling us to open FDIC insured accounts for users and facilitate transactions to and from linked bank accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sila?

They were able to work with me to accommodate my situation and my app development. Unfortunately they changed their mind 1 week before launching on the app stores. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sila?

The long process to get my application approved. It's taken over 7 months to get my application reviewed for approval. After agreeing to their requests and modifying my app, they decided to withdraw my app and left me with an unluanchable app.

I've lost $1,000s in development and lost time. Their reason was that their stakeholders decided not to support specific banking apps. If I knew this beforehand, I wouldn't have spent development costs and 1 yr of approvals.

They also increased their monthly pricing by 100X, from $99/month to $5,000-$10,000/month.

They have other plans but they were still not even close to the original $99/month starter package. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sila solving and how is that benefiting you?

My mobile app needs a payment processing application to handle my app features. They agreed to my banking application but changed the pricing to 100X more and declined the app type.

The increased monthly costs were outrageous and unaffordable but I decided to continue because I've already spent a lot on developing the application to fit their requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sila?

The team overall has been very helpful in navigating complex use cases.

To scale a fintech today it is critical to have an FBO Account partner with KYC-as-a-service to avoid the time-consuming and expensive path to state by state money transmission licenses.

Beyond this, SILA is constantly innovating with its transmission backbone. Very excited to see what is next on their roadmap.

The services that SILA provides are mission-critical and you need a strong partner to not only solve problems today, but a partner you can trust to have the foresight to build for the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sila?

There is a backlog for new clients, which has been challenging for some. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sila solving and how is that benefiting you?

Please refer to my summary in the "What do you like best" section. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sila?

The Sila platform, API documentation and ACH infrastructure are incredibly robust and cost-effective. However, the thing that really sets Sila apart is their team. I can't say enough about how collaborative and supportive they are, and how smoothly our implementation went under their direction. We really look forward to scaling our business with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sila?

Haven't found one yet....Our pricing and service have been great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sila solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Sila primary for our ACH needs, as well as setting up FBO accounts for our users. As a result of our integration, we are getting more users on our platform, and have dramatically lowered our COGs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sila?

The compliance and product capabilities are very flexible for many different kinds of financial businesses. We've been able to get up and running very quickly with a complex set of financial requirements. The Sila team's knowledge and expertise has made it flawless. The API and platform is extremely flexible and will meet just about any money movement use-case you can think of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sila?

As with any financial solution, there are some humans-in-the-loop back-office procedures, and that is true with Sila as well. That said, they continue to make great strides in automating all the things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sila solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Sila to handle FBO clearing of securities funds for investment accounts and KYB for businesses. Their platform can satisfy any compliance need, whereas we found that many other solutions had limited capabilities, especially around the nitty-gritty of account namings, charters, and bank agency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sila?

Setting up and sandbox account was quick and simple. We didn't have to go through the time-consuming due diligence of finding a banking partner to integrate with. The community helped us answer the technical questions that were crucial for our use case and gave us the confidence to use Sila as our primary core banking technology.

The API docs and GitHub are straightforward and simple, which makes it smooth to develop a prototype and an MVP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sila?

It wasn't until we paid that they disclose the potential limitations of us been operating out of a territory. Solving this issue delayed our development efforts.

The virtual account feature has taken more time than expected to be released. It was delayed from May to the end of the year.

Information about the integration and management of the FBO was not documented. The API docs for the Card API are not available yet, even though it is available to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sila:

I evaluated more than 20 banking and fintech providers to build Hyperion. Sila was the best option for developing a fintech product from the ground up without consuming lots of time in compliance and upfront platform costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sila solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are providing all-in-one business banking for SMB. Sila helped us build the core banking functionality in which we developed our product offerings on top of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sila?

I used SilaMoney for ACH payment integration. It was a good experience working with them and using APIs. Money movement can be tied to events within the platform, with just a few lines of code. I like the way that Sila can make and receive ACH transfers, link bank accounts, and verify customer identity. From my point of view, Sila is a Totally secure and trusted platform. Also, I appreciate the Sila support team. They resolved my every query quickly via email and via Slack. I would like to mention the name of Mr. Bruke from the Sila team. He is very friendly and knowledgeable. He helped me a lot in my development with Sila. Thanks to everyone. I recommand Sila for smooth money tansactions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sila?

Sometimes Sila team were working on API's and the server was under maintenance that should be notified to users so that they will take care of it. Sila maintenance surprises will be disappointing for customers because some may live and some may in development mode. That's the only point I want to mention here. Otherwise, I am happy with the service they gave to me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sila solving and how is that benefiting you?

There are many problems I solved with Sila. I was using PHP SDK for ACH payments. But sometimes faced issues fo using SDK was not updated or documentation was not updated. So it was very confusing to resolve issues. But wherever I asked queries to the Sila team regarding this they were really taking lead and helped me. Also, they said that they will be update requirements soon.

regarding business benefits, I think it was profitable because my Manager was happy with SilaMoney support and business deals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sila?

They are constantly developing new features and their communications are fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sila?

I now that is not their fault but the ACH schedule to move the money is slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sila solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm building a fintech platform based on crypto. Sila is helping me to move the crypto in an easy way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sila?

Their documentation and support is excellent, they respond quickly to any questions and are easy and fun to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sila?

I have not had any downsides with Sila, our experience has been excellent so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sila solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are solving Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.