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SoFi Checking & Savings: Open New Account w/ Direct Deposit, Get Expired

up to 4.00% APY
+ $250 Bonus w/ $5K+ in Direct Deposit Transactions
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SoFi is offering 2.00% > 2.50% > 3.50% > now 4.00% APY on Savings or 2.50% > now 1.20% APY on Checking + Up to $300 > now $250 Bonus when you Open a New Online Account and Set Up Direct Deposit.

Thanks to Community Member vrcsu for posting this deal.

Details/Features:
  • After Opening a New Account and setting up Direct Deposit, wait for your direct deposit to hit your account (typically 2-4 weeks).
  • Amount of Direct Deposit Cash Bonus depends on Total Qualifying Direct Deposit amount in 25-day Evaluation Period :
    • $1,000 - $4,999 Total Qualifying Direct Deposit: $50 Cash Bonus
    • $5,000 or more Total Qualifying Direct Deposit: $250 Cash Bonus
  • SoFi will credit members who meet qualification criteria within 14 days of the end of the Evaluation Period.
  • Direct Deposit Bonus Promotion ends 1/23/23 > now 12/31/23 11:59PM ET.
  • No overdraft fees. No minimum balance fees. No monthly fees. Plus, 55,000+ fee-free ATMs within the Allpoint Network.
  • Up to 2-day-early-paycheck
  • Get up to 15% cash back at local establishments when you pay with your SoFi debit card.
  • Organize your money, set savings goals, and save your change with Vaults and Roundups.
  • You'll earn up to 4.00% annual percentage yield (APY) on savings balances (including Vaults) and 1.20% APY on checking balances with direct deposit. Members without direct deposit will earn 1.20% APY.
  • There is no minimum direct deposit amount required. However, please note that there is a minimum direct deposit required for No-Fee Overdraft Coverage ($1,000).
  • Interest rates are variable and subject to change at any time. Rates are current as of 12/16/2022. Additional information can be found at http://www.sofi.com/legal/banking-rate-sheet

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Update: 2.5% APY starting 9/30 >Now 4.00% for Savings

2.00% APY with a direct deposit. $1 direct deposit is good enough to get 2.00 APY. 1.00% APY with no direct deposit.
No account fees
No overdraft fees
No minimum balance fees
No monthly fees
Free Checks
FDIC insured
2-day-early-paycheck credit
Great mobile banking app
Access to 55,000 ATMs worldwide through the Allpoint Network

Very easy to open Checking and Savings account online with SoFi
https://www.sofi.com/banking/

up to $300 $250 bonus + $25 referral bonus

Total Qualifying Direct Deposit amount in 30-day Evaluation Period Cash Bonus
$1,000 - $1,999$4,999 $50
$2,000-$4,999 $100
$5,000 or more $300 $250

Evaluation Period start from your 1st Direct Deposit Date. (Not from account opening date)

SoFi Checking and Savings - Referral Bonus :
For a limited time, get $25 when you sign up for a SoFi Checking & Savings account and deposit at least $10 with referral link.

Referral bonus $25 created the same day of $10 deposit

How to Transfer Money?
• Directly making an online transfer from one bank account to another
• Writing a check
• Making a peer-to-peer transfer
• Completing a wire transfer
• Working with a third-party company
• Making an email money transfer

Withdrawal Limit is $1,000,000.00 per day
Same limit for transferring money from Sofi to external bank account

Overall best banking experience I've ever had.
I closed my 20 years old regions and chase accounts and moved to Sofi.
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I opened Sofi checking on Jul 26 and completed the $5,000 direct deposit. Got email 4 days ago saying "Nice work! Your first direct deposit just hit your account. We'll calculate your total direct deposit amount over the next 30 days and credit the bonus accordingly. You'll qualify for your bonus 30 days after you set up direct deposit with your employer, and it can take up to 2 weeks for it to post to your account after that"....so I should be getting the $300 within next 30 days.

-Mar, opened/completed Wells Fargo and received in 3 mts (June) the $325 Bonus.
-Apr, opened/completed Chase and received the $225 bonus immediately (same month) after direct deposit was made.
-Today, opened US Bank and setup direct deposit to receive the $400 bonus after 2 or more deposits totaling $4,000 or more.

I am now researching BMO Harris and their $500 cash bonus when you have a total of at least $7,500 in qualifying direct deposits within the first 90 days.
https://www.bmoharris.com/main/personal/checking-accounts/digital-offer/?COID=BMOC-06492I-CH9U6X7&ec... [bmoharris.com]
can we do a bank transfer to satisfy the direct deposit?
I just did this earlier today. I've had capital One 360 savings since it was ING Orange Savings and until recently I didn't notice they weren't paying me the interest rate posted on their homepage because they started the "performance" 360 savings account which gets a higher rate. Why didn't they just convert 360 savings to the new "performance" product? Probably so people like me wouldn't realize right away we weren't getting paid the best rate. They said I'd have have a new performance account to get the better rate so since I was a little miffed, I'd have to open a new account anyway, and SoFi is paying better I just moved it all over to SoFi...

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jollypirateking
08-13-2022 at 12:13 AM.
08-13-2022 at 12:13 AM.
Been using SoFi for almost 2 years now and I'm loving it. I recently closed my Chase bank and completely transitioned over to SoFi for pretty much everything finance now.
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Bunduckie
08-13-2022 at 12:56 AM.
08-13-2022 at 12:56 AM.
Quote from Aogen :
Rates can change at any time per the terms.

No shit, just like any other FDIC insured bank
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Gregory00
08-13-2022 at 12:57 AM.
08-13-2022 at 12:57 AM.
Man SOFI is a trap!
I started with a finance account. And now I also have a saving and credit card account. They have some solid products and they make it super easy to open new ones. They don't even run a new credit report for each product.

Savings/checking: They have been slowly increasing the rate. 2% is near the top I have seen esp for a checking account

Credit card: a 2% cash back on everything without a monthly fee is a helpful card to have

Finance: You get 1% cash back for routine deposits of $50. (up to $13,000 per year). Also you get 5% cash back for routine purchases of $10 worth of crypto (up to $3650 per year). I find these are great ways to pad your returns.
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usuarioanon
08-13-2022 at 02:54 AM.
08-13-2022 at 02:54 AM.
Quote from FancyLadybug927 :
Zelle currently isn't setup to work with Sofi, but you can send money directly from your Sofi account to anyone easily.
"While many providers require both senders and receivers to have an account within their network to exchange money, customers with a SoFi Checking and Savings Account can send money to any person with a U.S. bank account. It doesn't have to be a SoFi Checking and Savings account. The service is free."

Do you know how this works? Do they send them a check or what?
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d_wave27
08-13-2022 at 03:12 AM.
08-13-2022 at 03:12 AM.
SOFI is fantastic. Great for stock trading too. My new favorite platform. Literally no reason not to sign up. Doesn't hurt credit or anything.
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danteshors
08-13-2022 at 03:37 AM.
08-13-2022 at 03:37 AM.
Do you receive a separate 1099 for these bonus payments or are they calculated with the normal interest as 1099INT ? Sad to see us paying tax on top of income deposits already taxed.
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Tigga573
08-13-2022 at 04:01 AM.
08-13-2022 at 04:01 AM.
Quote from vrcsu :
They dont make you to visit branch like Fifth Third Bank, Wells Fargo, etc and waste hours of your time with sales pitch
Not sure where you're getting this idea from?.. I've opened accounts at Fifth Third, WF, and Chase this year to collect the bonuses and did everything 100% online. I've seen plenty of other people post about opening those accounts with no issues as well.
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vrcsu
08-13-2022 at 04:17 AM.
08-13-2022 at 04:17 AM.
Quote from Tigga573 :
Not sure where you're getting this idea from?.. I've opened accounts at Fifth Third, WF, and Chase this year to collect the bonuses and did everything 100% online. I've seen plenty of other people post about opening those accounts with no issues as well.
I went through myself this year with all 3 of them, My create score is around 820. We also have separate threads for these bank. You can check it

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Bnnyslippers
08-13-2022 at 04:54 AM.
08-13-2022 at 04:54 AM.
Quote from baronvdb :
I just did this earlier today. I've had capital One 360 savings since it was ING Orange Savings and until recently I didn't notice they weren't paying me the interest rate posted on their homepage because they started the "performance" 360 savings account which gets a higher rate. Why didn't they just convert 360 savings to the new "performance" product? Probably so people like me wouldn't realize right away we weren't getting paid the best rate. They said I'd have have a new performance account to get the better rate so since I was a little miffed, I'd have to open a new account anyway, and SoFi is paying better I just moved it all over to SoFi...
Same! We've had ours since it was ING with that little orange ball and back then the rates were competitive. Then we checked our account and realized how low the rate had become. (Should have been keeping tabs but to be fair, rates went down everywhere). Anyhoo, we're getting .80% on the money we have in our money market with them and .30% on our regular money. NO clue why it's all not in the money market- we tried explaining to them that's what we wanted but apparently it didn't go anywhere.

We were just checking for a place to move our money and I have a checking account with Ally Bank, they are offering rates of 1.80% so we were thinking of trying that. I like the sound of this Sofi a little better tho at 2.00% plus a lot of people on here seem to have good experiences with them, so that's cool too.

Question- does anyone know how easy it would be to get money OUT of this account? And is the app good? (My Santander Banking app constantly throws an error trying to verify my biometric print on my phone and I'm literally having to log in every time. It's tedious.)
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clarkr32
08-13-2022 at 05:05 AM.
08-13-2022 at 05:05 AM.
lf you refer someone can they get the $300 bonus too?
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vrcsu
08-13-2022 at 05:17 AM.
08-13-2022 at 05:17 AM.
Quote from Bnnyslippers :
Same! We've had ours since it was ING with that little orange ball and back then the rates were competitive. Then we checked our account and realized how low the rate had become. (Should have been keeping tabs but to be fair, rates went down everywhere). Anyhoo, we're getting .80% on the money we have in our money market with them and .30% on our regular money. NO clue why it's all not in the money market- we tried explaining to them that's what we wanted but apparently it didn't go anywhere.

We were just checking for a place to move our money and I have a checking account with Ally Bank, they are offering rates of 1.80% so we were thinking of trying that. I like the sound of this Sofi a little better tho at 2.00% plus a lot of people on here seem to have good experiences with them, so that's cool too.

Question- does anyone know how easy it would be to get money OUT of this account? And is the app good? (My Santander Banking app constantly throws an error trying to verify my biometric print on my phone and I'm literally having to log in every time. It's tedious.)
App is easy to use
You can transfer money to external accounts. My transfers so far processed on the same day by both banks


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vrcsu
08-13-2022 at 05:18 AM.
08-13-2022 at 05:18 AM.
Quote from clarkr32 :
lf you refer someone can they get the $300 bonus too?
No.

If you refer some one, both gets $25
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Tigga573
08-13-2022 at 05:19 AM.
08-13-2022 at 05:19 AM.
Quote from vrcsu :
I went through myself this year with all 3 of them, My create score is around 820. We also have separate threads for these bank. You can check it
Not sure why you had to go in when I was able to open those 3 plus others online with no issues.
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clarkr32
08-13-2022 at 05:23 AM.
08-13-2022 at 05:23 AM.
Quote from vrcsu :
No.

If you refer some one, both gets $25

Just noticed my link to them says they can get up to $300 and I get 50 they get 25
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BoomSchtick
08-13-2022 at 05:44 AM.
08-13-2022 at 05:44 AM.
I just got set up with Bask Bank. Same rate but without the bonus.

Sadly, something with my ChexSystems reports make them do the account manually. They are slammed with new accounts so it almost took a month, but now I've got both an interest account and one that earns airline miles (American). We'll see how it goes.
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