Money moves both ways.
Home funds abroad as easily as abroad funds home. You see the exact rate and fee before you send. Most transfers land in seconds. Some take longer.
Dara is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking and card services provided by licensed partners. Protections vary by product.
Every number before you send, every step after
What Ada gets, the fee, and your total sit on three lines, with the arrival time under them, before anything moves.
Send it home. Or send it out.
Your role is not set by your address. A parent back home can fund a student abroad with the same account the student's sister uses to send money the other way, and neither of them has to hold a different kind of account to do it.
- One account sends and receives, whichever side of whichever corridor you are on.
- Money arriving from home lands in your USD balance, ready to spend or hold.
- The person on the other side needs a Dara account, not a bank you have never heard of.
Questions about sending money
The rate you are shown when you review the transfer. If it moves before you confirm, you are re-quoted and you see the new number before anything leaves your account. You are never given a worse rate quietly.
The money comes back to you in the currency it left in, at the amount it left as. A held transfer is not converted while it waits, so nothing is lost to exchange movement, and you can cancel it yourself at any point before they claim it.
Dara is multi-corridor by design: every corridor runs in both directions and works the same way, so nothing about sending changes as the list grows. Supported countries are live at launch, up to 180 of them, with the full list in the app. Our home corridors run between the US and Africa.
Because they are opening a real account that holds real money, and the rules that apply to you apply to them. Verification is what makes the money theirs rather than something sitting in a queue with their name on it.
The fee is stated on the review screen before you confirm, on its own line beside what the recipient gets and what you pay in total. No markup is hidden in the rate, and nothing is added on collection day. Transfers between Dara accounts in the same currency are free, and every rate and fee on Dara is published in full.
Send your first one.
Set up an account, add money on the side you are on, and send to a phone number in the app.