Update 1/1/25: Extended to 3/31/2025
Update 10/2/24: Deal is back until 12/31/24. Hat tip to reader Karl
Offer at a glance
- Maximum bonus amount: $300
- Availability: Nationwide
- Direct deposit required: No
- Additional requirements: Yes, see options below
- Hard/soft pull: Soft
- ChexSystems: No
- Credit card funding: Unknown
- Monthly fees: None
- Early account termination fee: 150 days, bonus forfeit
- Household limit: None mentioned
- Expiration date: July 31, 2024
The Offer
BlueVine business checking is offering a $300 signup bonus:
- To get your $300 bonus, apply for a Bluevine Business Checking account by 7/31/2024 using referral code NW300
- After opening your account, add funds within 30 days, then meet at least one of the following eligibility requirements every 30 days for the next 90 days from account funding:
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- Deposit at least $5,000 from eligible merchant services to your Bluevine account
- Make at least $5,000 of outbound payroll payments from your Bluevine account
using eligible payroll providers - Spend at least $2,000 with your Bluevine Business Debit Mastercard and/or Bluevine
Business Cashback Mastercard
The Fine Print
- Bluevine is a financial technology company, not a bank. Bluevine deposits are FDIC-insured through Coastal Community Bank.
- For the avoidance of doubt, a New Customer is a natural person who does not have an existing Bluevine Business Checking Account held in the name of a business of which they are an owner and has not had such an account open in the last twelve (12) months.
- In order to be eligible, New Customers must be (i) at least 18 years old; and (ii) a legal resident of the fifty (50) United States or Washington, DC. Officers, directors, managers, and employees of Sponsor and of its parent, subsidiary, and affiliate companies, as well as the immediate family members (spouse, parents, siblings, and children) and/or household members of each such person are not eligible.
- Conditions and Promotional Period: To be eligible to receive the bonus associated with this promotion, New Customers must 1) apply for and open a Bluevine Business Checking Account using a bonus offer code between 12:00:00 AM EST on June 24, 2024 and 11:59:59 PM EST on July 31, 2024.; 2) fund their Bluevine Business Checking Account within thirty (30) days of account opening; and 3) meet at least one of the following conditions every thirty (30) days for ninety (90) days from account funding: a) receive at least $5,000.00 in deposits from eligible Merchant Services; b) make at least $5,000.00 in payments through eligible Payroll Providers; or c) spend at least $2,000.00 with the Bluevine Business Debit Mastercard® and/or Bluevine Business Cashback Mastercard®. A list of eligible Merchant Services and Payroll Providers (each an “Eligible Third Party”) can be found at https://www.bluevine.com/eligible-merchant-services-and-payroll-providers. Bluevine will make its best effort to attribute transactions to the correct Eligible Party. For the avoidance of doubt, Bluevine’s computer is the official time-keeping device for the promotion.
- Notification: If a New Customer meets all of the eligibility requirements and conditions of the promotion, Bluevine will deposit the bonus into their Bluevine Business Checking Account by the tenth day of the month that follows the month in which the last requirement was met provided that the account is not closed or suspended.
- Limitation of Liability: Bluevine and its respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents, shall have no liability and shall be held harmless by participants for any damage, loss or liability to persons or property, due in whole or part, directly or indirectly, by reason of the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of prize or participation in this promotion. Bluevine reserves the right in its sole discretion to modify or end the promotion at any time and exclude any participant for any reason, including suspected fraud, misuse, or other misconduct and may also terminate any Bluevine accounts you may have with us. Bluevine also reserves the right to reverse the bonus if a New Customer closes their Bluevine Business Checking Account within 150 days of funding it.
- Miscellaneous: The bonus associated with this promotion is considered interest and will be reported on IRS Form 1099-INT. You are responsible for any federal or state taxes resulting from the promotion. Please consult your tax advisor if you have questions about tax treatment.
Avoiding Fees
- Blue vine has no monthly fees, no overdraft fees, no minimum balance, free standard ACH, and unlimited transactions.
There is an EATF if closed within 150 days.
Our Verdict
Good chance for businesses to try out this bank option with this $300 bonus. It’s not an easy bonus due to the spend/payroll/processing requirements which needs to be done three times. Still might interest some readers who have lots of debit card spend. We’ve added this to our List of Best Bank Bonuses.
Bluevine also offer 2% APY on balances up to $250,000 which is something most business checking accounts don’t have.
Hat tip to reader Ben
(Failed) DP from Pennsylvania:
2024/10/10: “Business Checking” account opened.
2024/10/11: Opening deposit from Ally posts ($10).
2024/11/01: Transfer from Discover Checking to Bluevine posts ($2010).
2024/11/06: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$700).
2024/11/07: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$750).
2024/11/08: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$560).
2024/11/10: 30 days after account funding…needed to spend $2000 by now…completed.
2024/11/14: Cashed out CashApp to Bluevine ($2010).
2024/11/22: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$600).
2024/11/26: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$650).
2024/11/28: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$760).
2024/12/05: Cashed out CashApp to Bluevine ($2015).
2024/12/10: 60 days after account funding…needed to spend $2000 by now…completed.
2024/12/17: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$501).
2024/12/20: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$600).
2024/12/21: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$300).
2024/12/21: Used Bluevine debit card to fund CashApp (-$605).
2025/01/09: 90 days after account funding…needed to spend $2000 by now…completed.
2025/01/31: Reached out to customer service via email. They said “Please be advised, I see that you are eligible to receive bonus and same will get posted on 02/10/2025. Thank you for your time and patience.”
2025/02/10: Bonus should have posted by now (“Bluevine will deposit the bonus into their Bluevine Business Checking Account by the tenth day of the month that follows the month in which the last requirement was met”). No bonus.
2025/02/11: Reached out to customer service again via the same email thread from before.
2025/02/12: Received a reply email: “After review, you did not qualify to receive the $300 payout. I apologize, you were misinformed. I’ll be sure the agent you spoke with understands they provided the incorrect information.”
I requested elaboration on any requirement(s) I didn’t meet. They replied within 20 minutes:
“Unfortunately, Cashapp transactions/deposits do not count towards the sign up bonus.
Transactions for peer-to-peer payments and those that use the Bluevine Business Debit Mastercard® and/or Bluevine Business Cashback Mastercard® as a funding source for payments made through a bank or other financial institution are excluded as well as transactions with the merchants listed below. https://www.bluevine.com/excluded-merchants-card-transactions”
Interestingly, they made no mention of any new terms, etc. Bummer that this didn’t work out. Wondering if I can transfer out the remaining ~$11 I still have in the account and close without any fee since I never received the bonus?
Has anyone received the bonus after meeting the requirements with a different method after receiving the “Important Update on Bluevine Signup Bonus Eligibility Requirements” email in November?
I did, but not sure how…
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Good to know, thank you. I messaged customer service but haven’t received any response.
Most people here probably hate both these companies, but Fidelity + Bluevine can be a killer combo:
Fidelity’s free wire transfer to Bluevine scheduled before ~3:45 ET should hit BV by around 4:30.
Bluevine ACH DD scheduled before ~4:40 ET should transmit and be received by 6:00 ET. This is probably due to Coastal Community participating in the third same-day ACH window (4:45pm cutoff). I noticed One Finance which also uses Coastal exhibits the same behavior.
BV’s balance shown updates in real time, so you can just keep a window open and watch for your wire to hit. BV only allows one instance of a Payee name, but you can schedule a payment, edit the rtn/ach for that payee, and schedule another payment if you want. I was able to hit two banks same day this way. Note, my first payment was scheduled hours earlier, but still hadn’t processed at the time I scheduled the second. The changes to rtn/ach didn’t affect the first payment.
I add the name of the bank after the payee name to keep the list of payees separated. It’ll show up on the transfer description, but it doesn’t seem to cause any problems.
Nice tip, thx
Is this to earn an interest for the funds on that one day at both Fidelity and BV?
If you do with $50,000, for example, how much do you earn each time??
No, just a fast way to get an emergency DD done if you suddenly realize you need one that day.
To earn double interest you need to pull into an account that credits you same day but doesn’t debit the other side until next business day.
HOT TIP: BlueVine denying you the bonus for made up reasons?
Call 425-257-9000 (I think it was Option 2 for ‘FinTech’) during regular business hours.
Tell Coastal Community bank what has happened.
I did, and I told them I was contacting everybody, even the organizations listed on BlueVine’s site like Bloomberg CNBC Entrapreneur Forbes Inc. TechCrunch Tearsheet Inc. Magazine Nerd Wallet, and they contacted BlueVine to tell them what I said. I got an email from a supervisor at BlueVine the same day. I responded to him and I am currently waiting for reply. If it goes no where with him then I am pulling the trigger on all the official complaints.
Has anyone actually received the $300 bonus yet?
Some have…ironically, the most successful method seemed to be buying MOs despite a few people getting shutdown for doing that, lol.
Ridic! I asked for the bonus and they said I didn’t meet the terms. I said I met via debit card spend. They wrote back inter alia that I didn’t fund the account (would be pretty hard to make debit purchases!) and didn’t use the promo code? This is more than incompetent, it’s criminal. Will Cfpb, Ftc, etc.
When did you open the account?
You can search comments by username. Also, I blame you for jinxing this offer and spawning this shitshow, lol…
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July
The $2000 minimum funding definitely was not for account opened in July. Did you receive an email around November to re-do the qualification like many of us here?
NJ Reg BLUEVINE INC. 0101039386 Jersey City FR 12/21/2015
DE Reg BLUEVINE INC. 5362880 Incorporation Date / Formation Date: 7/8/2013
RA: FILEJET INC.
Address: 300 DELAWARE AVENUE, SUITE 210F
City: WILMINGTON County: New Castle
State: DE Postal Code: 19801
Did they ever respond to your threat of legal action or pay the bonus?
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January 29, 2025
Bluevine Inc.
30 Montgomery Street, Suite 1400
Jersey City, NJ 07302
Coastal Community Bank
5415 Evergreen Way
Everett, WA 98203
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
1700 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20552
Checking Account Promotional Offer
To Whom it May Concern:
On July 23, 2024, I applied online for a Checking account at Bluevine in response to an offer to “get your $300 bonus.” My application was approved and all terms of the promotion were met, namely to “Spend at least $2,000 with your Bluevine Business Debit Mastercard and/or Bluevine Business Cashback Mastercard” “every 30 days for the next 90 days from account funding,”
When my Checking bonus did not post, I contacted Bluevine for payment. Bluevine falsely claims that the terms were not followed and denied my request.
Please pay the $300 bonus. Otherwise this matter will proceed to trial.
Sincerely,
X
I applied in October 2024, did the same thing. I have not received the bonus either. Thanks for this post.
But not sure if CFPB is the right place for a business checking account.
Still worth sending to the CFPB, who will forward your complaint to the FTC.
This will be in the email that the CFPB sends:
“Here’s what we did with your complaint.
We entered the information you provided into the Consumer Sentinel Network, a secure online database operated by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC cannot resolve individual complaints, but civil and criminal law enforcement authorities worldwide, including Consumer Financial Protection Bureau investigators, use the Consumer Sentinel Network to identify questionable business practices that may lead to investigations and prosecutions.”
They also provide a link to legal services. “Or, contact your local legal aid office to see if free or low‐cost legal aid is available to you. Visit the Legal Services Corporation website http://www.lsc.gov/ to see what’s available in your area.”
Time to file a complaint. I made contact with them to inquire about the bonus and I got a response that I didn’t qualify because I didn’t meet the terms for “possible reasons”, and they listed a few possibilities. I responded back with the screenshot of the terms and layed out why I DID meet the terms “every 30 days for 90 days”. No response back from them. So, I inquire again only to get a similar response with “possible reasons” why I ‘may not’ have met the terms.
Reading all of the posts on this tread leads me to believe they just decided to not pay out on the bonus for most accounts wether terms were met or not, for some reason. My last response to them I told them I would file a complaint if they didn’t award the bonus, and I have not heard back since. Time to file a complaint and see how that goes.
Is your screenshot for the original terms when you signed up? Could you please share it? They have changed the offer page multiple times so yours would be helpful for many.
fucked me out of the bonus with random changes in terms. boooooo.
I guess this bonus isn’t worth doing?
Don’t do it!
I checked and they did exclude PayPal transfers when they updated the terms. This is really getting to be too much work for the bonus
“Beginning November 7, 2024, you can qualify for the bonus through credit or debit card spend on Eligible Transactions* or through either of the two other eligibility requirements.
a) receive at least $5,000.00 in deposits from eligible Merchant Services;
b) make at least $5,000.00 in payments through eligible Payroll Providers; or
c) spend at least $2,000.00 on Eligible Transactions with the Bluevine Business Debit Mastercard® and/or Bluevine Business Cashback Mastercard®. Eligible Transactions are transactions other than peer-to-peer payments or transactions that use the Bluevine Business Debit Mastercard® and/or Bluevine Business Cashback Mastercard® as a funding source for payments made through a bank or other financial institution.”
I do not see Paypal excluded in the email?
PayPal is not on the vendor list. It used to be highlighted in the “Most Popular” list and was also on the main list, but it’s not there anymore. Hope that you still get your bonus, though.
Ah. I didn’t check the list again when I received the email. I did three months of Paypal probably for nothing again. Frustrating.
You never know…I did 2 months of PPBP before getting that email, then did 2 months of PP transfers. Somehow I got the bonus on 1/6 before starting the third month of transfers.
I did 3 months of PPBP before getting that email (08,09,10), then did 3 months of PP transfers (11, 12,1), no bonus so far…
Do you know when they updated the terms and excluded Paypal from the eligible merchant services?
I was denied for the bonus in November because I had been doing $2000 Paypal bill pay.
Then I have been doing $5000 Paypal transfer since November to try to qualify. Paypal was among the eligible merchant services at least in November.
I believe many people are on the same boat.
It’s frustrating that they keep changing T&C after people met the requirements and before the expected payout dates.
Some of us got the email about the terms changing in early Nov.
I posted here a few wks ago that PP was on the list when I saved it on 11/15. So, at least a wk after they let us know that the terms changed, they removed PP from the list. Very sneaky. I have a feeling that they’re going to pay you guys just bc they have to know how much worse they’ll look after they don’t pay up after you did the promo twice. GL!