Offer at a glance
- Maximum bonus amount:Â $300
- Availability:Â Nationwide
- Direct deposit required:Â Yes, two direct deposits of $500+
- Additional requirements:Â Use promo code
- Hard/soft pull: Soft (overdraft protection no longer being offered)
- ChexSystems:Â Mixed. EWS sensitive according to the comments
- Credit card funding:Â None
- Monthly fees:Â None
- Early account termination fee:Â None
- Household limit:Â None listed
- Expiration date:Â None listed
Contents
The Offer
- Capital One is offering a $300 bonus when you open a new checking account and complete the following requirements:
- Use promo code OFFER300
- Set up and receive at least 2 direct deposits, each of $500 or more, within 75 days of account opening
The Fine Print
- Capital One reserves the right to end or change the terms of this offer at any time prior to you accepting the offer, with or without notice. Changing the terms of this offer could result in a change to any of the offer requirements such as, but not limited to, the required deposit amounts, qualified external deposit sources, the bonus amounts or expiration date. Please note that once your account is opened with a promotional code, the terms of the offer will not change without us notifying you in advance. Offers may vary.
- If you have or had an open 360 Checking, Simply Checking, or Total Control Checking account as a primary or secondary account holder with Capital One on or after January 1, 2023, you will be ineligible for the bonus. If your account is in default, closed or suspended, or otherwise not in good standing before you receive the bonus, you will not receive the bonus. No minimum balance is required to be maintained in order to receive this bonus.
- Here’s the full scoop on how to earn your $300 bonus:
- Open a 360 Checking account on or after November 13, 2024, using promotional code OFFER300.
- Set up and receive at least 2 Qualifying Direct Deposits each of $500 or more to your 360 Checking account within 75 days of account opening.
- Capital One will deposit the bonus into your account after the first two requirements listed above are completed. See below for when the bonus will be posted.
- All bank account bonuses are treated as income/interest and as such you have to pay taxes on them
Avoiding Fees
Monthly Fees
This account has no monthly fees to worry about.
Early Account Termination Fee
There is no early account termination fee
Our Verdict
There was a $250 bonus, I said to wait for a bigger bonus as we saw $350 bonus last year. I think this $300 bonus is worth doing though and we will add it to our best bank account bonuses.
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Opened account 11/4
Chase transfer $525 11/15
Chase transfer $525 11/19
Received $250 bonus 1/17/25!
Offer is now $250
Shows as $300 for me?
My mistake, you’re right the link you provided for $300 is still good. I did a google search for Capital One Checking Bonus and only the $250 showed up.
Does anyone know if doordash pay counts as Direct Deposit?
Opened 10/24
Didn’t gain access to account until 11/20 as C1 wouldn’t verify my phone number
$502 deposited 11/23 from Schwab Brokerage acct, categorized as DD
$502 deposited 12/02 from Schwab Brokerage acct, NOT categorized as DD (transfer instead)
$502 deposited 12/14 from work paycheck
Received $250 bonus 01/08
I also tried transferring $50X from my Apple savings acct a couple time, this did not get counted as DD, only as a transfer.
Mr. Igloo Your 11/23 & 12/14 deposits arrived on a Saturday? Banks don’t process transactions on weekends/holidays, so the dates are suspect, but that’s not why I’m commenting. I wanted to explain why one Schwab deposit showed up as a DD and the other one didn’t. This should help you make sure all Schwab deposits count as a DD in the future.
The key with Schwab is to always schedule a deposit to arrive on a future date (+2 banking days), NOT next day. If you schedule a transfer in the evening/weekend/holiday, Schwab’s earliest “Transfer Date” will be +2 so, everything is good. If you schedule it during the day (M-F) the earliest Transfer Date will be +1 (next banking day). Next day is the issue.
My guess is you scheduled your first DD the evening of 11/20 so, the earliest “Transfer Date” was 11/22. Schwab sent the transfer request using a PPD SEC code with an Effective Date of 11/22 (future deposit date). This is what triggers most banks that it’s a DD. If the bank has an early deposit program, then it would be deposited on 11/21, otherwise it’s deposited on 11/22 but still gets tagged as a DD.
Do you see why the 12/2 Deposit didn’t count as a DD? My guess is you scheduled during the day on Friday, 11/29 with a Monday, 12/2 “Transfer Date” which is the next banking day, not a future date so, no DD credit.
Schwab works for most DD requirements unless the banks algorithms specifically exclude Schwab or Retirement account deposits as a valid DD.
Hope all that makes sense. The key take away is to always use at least a +2 “Transfer Date” (future date) when using Schwab as a DD source.
Banks process transactions on Saturdays all the time – or at least start to process and show them pending on Saturday. I get paid on Saturday every two weeks and the money is shown as my available balance. The actual processing might not complete until Mon/Tues, I’m not sure but the deposit appears on Saturday, so I’d probably count it on the Saturday date if I were timelining it. If you were to ask when what day I got paid I would have told you Saturday, not Monday.
Darcy L Buchanan I agree that banks process internal transactions on weekends, like interest, but the ACH network isn’t active on the weekends or holidays. That means your pay arrived at your bank M-F during standard ACH processing windows with an “Effective Date” (deposit date) of Saturday. So yes, I can see the bank processing/depositing/making available your pay on Saturday because that’s the date your employer used. Although I do find getting paid on a Saturday unusual.
Banks, including Schwab, won’t let you schedule a transfer to arrive on a weekend or holiday. So, in the discussion above, Mr. Igloo could not have received a deposit on Saturday.
How did you determine that the second Schwab transaction was categorized a transfer instead of a DD?
Chex Sensitive. Declined – 1/16/24.
CO doesn’t pull Chex. You were likely declined for EWS.
Account opened 10/30/2024
First $501 deposit 11/14/2024
Bonus paid 1/14/2025
forgot to mention they were all DD from work
You got a bonus after only one DD?
What the churn around time on this one?
Does anyone know if Fidelity transfers would trigger the bonus? Or Chime but I doubt chime wuold work?
Fidelity should.
Ally push works (or did for the $250 bonus from October). 68 days.
10/30/24 Account created, test deposits back and forth from Ally
11/5 $500.01 push from Ally, “Appears on your statement as: Deposit from ALLY BANK P2P”
11/6 $500.01 push from Ally, same P2P note
1/13 $250 bonus from Capital One “Appears on your statement as: Cha-Ching! New account bonus”
RJ – RJ how do you make a DD with Ally Bank?
can anyone confirm that SoFi pushes still count as direct deposits?
Basically any ACH push works for C1 since they are lenient