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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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No shit, just like any other FDIC insured bank
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.
"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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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.)
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.)
You can transfer money to external accounts. My transfers so far processed on the same day by both banks
If you refer some one, both gets $25
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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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.