Offer at a glance
- Maximum bonus amount: $300
- Availability: Nationwide
- Direct deposit required: None
- Additional requirements: See below
- Hard/soft pull: Soft pull
- ChexSystems: Doesn’t pull
- Credit card funding: None
- Monthly fees: None
- Early account termination fee: Bonus forfeit, 150 days
- Household limit: None
- Expiration date: 1/31/25
Contents
The Offer
Direct link to offer (note this is a nerdwallet bonus, we do not receive any commission for using this link)
- Grasshopper is offering a $300 bonus when you open a new checking account and complete the following requirements:
- Open an eligible Innovator Business Checking account with promo code NW2025 by 1/31/2025 (enter promo code last page before submitting application)
- Fund your Innovator Business Checking account with $10,000 or more within 30 days of account opening
- Maintain an average daily balance of $10,000 or greater during the Maintenance Period. (31 days after account opening to 90 days after account opening.)
The Fine Print
- 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
Grasshopper Bank also reserves the right to reverse the bonus if a New Client closes their Innovator Business Checking Account within 150 days of opening it
Our Verdict
Account earns 1.8% unless you have a $25,000 balance. Looks like you need to tie up funds for ~61 days according to the terms so you’d earn the following with a $10,000 balance:
- ~$30 in interest
- $300 from bonus
If you had the funds in a 5% account you’d earn $83 so this bonus is definitely worth doing if eligible. We will add this to our list of the best bank account bonuses.
Hat tip to Ostrich Rider
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View Comments (105)
Insta-declined. Legit sole prop with EIN from 2021. Chex frozen, all credit bureaux thawed. Funding was $100 from Chase business checking, using routing and account numbers.
Not at all surprised.
As soon as I transferred the $10,000 in they locked my account and asked for a copy of my drivers license and a bank statement from the account the money was pulled from.
Assuming it was coming from a personal account.. any weird questions when you sent them the external bank info?
Sole Prop, 45+ years in operation. Funded w Plaid to BOA. Instantly declined.
Instant decline. Partnership, 30+ years in biz, selected non-Plaid funding.
Approved. LLC formed 8/24. Did not use Plaid, funded max of $250 via acct. # entry.
Instant decline. Sole Prop with EIN. Business start October 2022. Company E-mail. Used Goggle voice as mobile (regret that now).
denied with my sole prop and ssn
1/21/25 same day approved
Sole proprietor since 1995
Nothing frozen
Approved
LLC setup 12/2022
Approved
LLC with EIN operating for 4 years
Equifax unfrozen