SoFi Money $75 Slickdeals Rebate (Plus $100 Direct Deposit Bonus)

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• P2 got an accident settlement sent from her lawyers. She got an email saying her savings account qualified for the 4.6% savings account interest (after the money arrived in her account).

  Does anyone know if this is an indication of a working DD?

  Edit: oops wrong sofi thread.

• Plynk works for DD. It’s coded as Natl Fin SVC LLC. They also have a $50 offer on Swagbucks and a $75 deposit match offer currently.

  The good thing about SoFi’s DD offer is that their evaluation period doesn’t start from the day an account is open, but rather from the day a first qualifying DD is received if it’s within its current promo period which runs the entire year of 2023 and is very likely to be extended.

• I did the SB deal of 17,500 points. I got the $100 form SoFi but SB customer service hasn't responded to my several requests on why the points have not bene posted. I submitted a request via their help center 10 days ago and still no answer, though I emailed them as well via their form online. Under activities shows as pending, but I get a bad feeling they wont even answer me. Do you know how good they are in responding back and crediting points. I did send a screen shot as well of the DD and the deposited SoFi bonus so they can see I already met the requirement. Anyone suggest anything else or has experience dealing with SB? Thanks.

  • file bbb complaint against swagbucks parent company - prodege. That should get their attention.

• Update to my comment about MyPoint 27,500 pts offer:
  I was able to submit a screenshot of a real work DD to the SoFi Money visit that was marked Pending. Now they added the points to pending activity with 27,500 pts to be credited in 31 days.

• DP: eBay Managed Payments triggers SoFi direct deposits ($100). Slickdeals $75 didn't track :(

  • eBay payouts no longer work for SoFi DD - set payouts to deposit at SoFi but my account remains ineligible for higher APY associated with DD. SoFi states:

    "Non-qualifying direct deposits are ACH deposits such as:
    Check deposits
    Peer to Peer (P2P) transfers (Paypal, Venmo, etc.)
    Merchant transactions (Paypal, Stripe, Square, etc.)
    Bank ACH transfers that are not from employers or payroll providers"

    So I presume eBay would qualify as "merchant transactions."

    • Could we have this updated on the Methods Banks count for DDs post? @will

  • I tried this and it didn't work. I switched my ebay account (not an ebay store or anything, just a personal ebay account that I've had forever) to do payouts to my SoFi account and they appear just as "Deposit". Does this require having a special kind of ebay account?

    • Hello there, I have an eBay seller account with a store.
      In the app, I check SOFI's "activity detail."
      Until 12/20/2021, the third entry below "amount $xxx" was "direct deposit payer: ebay edi pymnts."
      After that date, on 12/22/2021, it will be "merchant: ebay payout."
      Perhaps it no longer works.
      @will

• Opening the SD link, I get a little popup from MyPoints browser extension I have installed saying I could get 27,500 points (~$183 value using prepaid Visa for redemption). I don't see any SoFi Money offer on MyPoints' webpage. Can anyone comment on this?

  Edit: Clicking link in the popup does get recognized by the system as I can see "Sofi Money" in the activity section of my account ledger on MP. However, the popup keeps appearing and the browser extension doesn't seem to have the offer activated. Also still haven't found an actual MP page with 27,500 points offer.

  • I decided to be the lab rat myself and signed up with MP link instead of SL's $75 bonus. It's marked as pending, so it did get recognized on MP's end. I'll update yall once it fully posts.

    • Found the mypoints landing page under deals if you sort for finance. It says the offer is after 200 DD. Trying it myself too, I'll just have to figure out what will work for DD.

      • Thanks for finding how to get to the MP landing page (https://www.mypoints.com/discover-offer?id=15723). I know people usually do real DD for SoFi but also would like to know any other options.

• This is not churnable for SlickDeals. I got $75 for opening a SoFi Money account in October 2020 and closed the account in May. I tried again in September, and SlickDeals said I was ineligible because of the other bonus.

  On the bright side, SoFi still gave me $100 for the direct deposit (https://www.doctorofcredit.com/public-offer-sofi-money-75-direct-deposit-bonus-for-existing-users/) even though I had received that bonus on the old Money account, and SlickDeals gave me $75 for the SoFi Invest promo (https://www.doctorofcredit.com/sofi-invest-get-up-to-2500-when-transferring-over-investments/)

• DP: Transferring money using Astra.Finance triggers SoFi direct deposits. I think Astra.Finance may actually trigger all direct deposits. Does anyone one else have other data points?

  • How long did it take to get the bonus after DD?

    • I also used Astra, and I got the bonus the same day the deposit hit my account.

      • @guest_1249438 @guest_1252109 @guest_1244690
        How do you guys get Sofi to link to Astra? It only connects as "connected", not as "authorized" for me, meaning I can only see transactions, but not transfer any money.

        • @guest_1280055 You ever figure this out?

        • Maybe try signing out of the app. Then sign in again. This worked for me.

  • Their app is the worst! It's absolutely terrible. It crashes all of the time and nothing will go through. They are aware of this issue for android and still don't fix it. I regret opening an account.

    • The app has glitches, although it did trigger the DD, so I take back what I said about the app.

• is this available for non us citizens?

• DP: Revolut worked earlier this week to trigger DD bonus. @will

  • not working anymore

  • DP: Revolut worked for me a week ago, but with some special steps as noted below. @guest_1233936 @guest_1243473 @will
    You have to add your personal bank account as a "Business" account instead of an "Individual" one (with the company name being your full name) and then once it's added, send your money with the Reference/Memo "Payroll". That should trigger the DD bonus.

    • hmm looks like revolut is now asking
      "what does the company do"
      and
      "Reason for transfer"
      for a business beneficiary. Wonder if they're seriously checking what I put in these fields. Anyone has a DP?

    • It indeed worked. Do exactly as this person says guys lol. I did it last week. Got the 300$ bonus after the 30 days :-)))

      • sorry to dig up this old comment, but does Revolut still work for you for SoFi (checking) DD? thanks so much for your help.

    • What would be the personal account? Lets say I have a SoFi account (#2) and my personal main checking (#1), I am trying to transfer money from 1 to 2 using Revolut to trigger a DD, is the payee added as a business?

      • I have the same question. Perhaps you can try both, i.e., Add #1 as a business account to #2 and add #2 as a business account to #1.

  • Revolut didn't work for me either.

  • Revolut didn't trigger the direct deposit bonus for me.