Update 10/3/24: Extended 1/22/2025
Update 7/11/24: Extended to 10/16/24
Update 4/5/24: Extended through 07/24/2024
Offer at a glance
- Maximum bonus amount: $900
- Availability: Nationwide, online or in-branch
- Direct deposit required: Yes, no minimum. Click here to view what triggers this bonus.
- Additional requirements: None for checking; $15,000 balance for savings
- Hard/soft pull: Soft
- ChexSystems: Doesn’t pull
- Credit card funding: Can fund up to $50 with a debit card online (prepaids do not work). Cannot fund with debit or credit in branch.
- Monthly fees: $12, waivable
- Early account termination fee:
Bonus taken back if closed within six monthsNone - Household limit: None listed
- Expiration date:
April 19, 2023January 24, 2024April 17, 2024
Contents
The Offer
Direct link to offer (incognito)
- Chase is offering a checking & savings bonus worth up to $900. Bonus is as follows:
- Receive a bonus of $300 when you open a Chase Total checking account and have a direct deposit post to the account within 90 days.
- Receive a bonus of $200 when you open a Chase savings account and deposit $15,000 or more in new money within 30 days and maintain a balance of $15,000 for 90 days.
- Receive an extra $400 bonus when you complete both of the above bonuses.
The Fine Print
- Checking offer is not available to existing Chase checking customers. Savings offer is not available to existing Chase savings customers. Both offers are not available to those whose accounts have been closed within 90 days or closed with a negative balance within the last 3 years.
- You can receive only one new checking and one new savings account opening related bonus every two years from the last coupon enrollment date and only one bonus per account. Coupon is good for one-time use.
- To receive the checking bonus: 1) Open a new Chase Total Checking account, which is subject to approval; AND 2) Have your direct deposit made to this account within 90 days of coupon enrollment. Your direct deposit needs to be an electronic deposit of your paycheck, pension or government benefits (such as Social Security) from your employer or the government. Person to Person payments (such as Zelle®) are not considered a direct deposit. (Micro-deposits do not qualify as a direct deposit for the bonus. Micro-deposits are small deposits, typically less than $1, that are sent to your account to verify it is the correct account.)
- After you have completed all the above checking requirements, we’ll deposit the bonus in your new account within 15 days. To receive the savings bonus: 1) Open a new Chase SavingsSM account, which is subject to approval; 2) Deposit a total of $15,000 or more in new money into the new savings account within 30 days of coupon enrollment; AND 3) Maintain at least a $15,000 balance for 90 days from the coupon enrollment. The new money cannot be funds held by you at Chase or its affiliates.
- After you have completed all the above savings requirements, we’ll deposit the bonus in your new account within 15 days.
- To receive the extra bonus: You must open the checking and savings account at the same time and complete all requirements above for BOTH the checking bonus and savings bonus. After you have completed all requirements, we will deposit the remaining bonus due in your new account within 15 days.
- To receive any of the above bonuses, the enrolled account must not be closed or restricted at the time of payout. Eligibility may be limited based on account ownership. The Annual Percentage Yield (APY) for Chase SavingsSM, effective as of 12/29/2022, is 0.01% for all balances in all states. Interest rates are variable and subject to change. Additionally, fees may reduce earnings on the account.
- Bonuses are considered interest and will be reported on IRS Form 1099-INT (or Form 1042-S, if applicable).
Avoiding Fees
Savings Account
The Chase Savings Account comes with a monthly service fee of $5. Monthly fee is waived with any ONE of the following:
- Keep a minimum daily balance of $300 or more
- Have at least one repeating automatic transfer from your Chase checking account of $25 or more; one time transfers do not qualify
- Have a linked Chase Premier Plus Checking, Chase Premier Platinum Checking, or Chase Private Client Checking account
New accounts will not be charged a Monthly Service Fee for at least the first two statement periods.
Checking Account
The Chase Total Checking account comes with a monthly service fee of $10-$12 which is waived if complete any of the following:
- Have monthly direct deposits totaling $500 or more
- Keep a minimum daily balance of $1,500 or more in the checking account
- Keep an average daily balance of $5,000 or more in any combination of qualifying Chase checking, savings and other balances
New accounts will not be charged a Monthly Service Fee for at least the first two statement periods.
Early Account Termination Fee
There used to be an six-month period where you would lose the bonus if closed out, but sometime in 2022 (?) they removed that clause and so it’s now safe to close after you receive the bonus paid out.
Our Verdict
This is the best public bonus we’ve seen on this account, really excellent offer and much better than the prior $600 offer.
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Post history:
- Update 1/11/24: Extended through 4/17/24
- Update 11/13/23: Extended through 1/24/24
- Update 10/6/23: $900 bonus is publicly available again. Valid until 11/16/2023
- Update 8/2/23: We’re hearing sporadic reports of people who get this offer to show up on the Chase homepage or at this link or this link. Possibly refreshing a bunch of times can help. No such luck for me. Update 8/6/23: now it’s being sent out as a physical mailer as well. (ht doernonemasterall)
- Update 7/14/23: A bunch of readers report getting this offer again – it was just sent out as a targeted email offer.
- Update 4/30/23: There are a couple of data points indicating that the $900 promo code will still work beyond the 4/19/23 expiration date. There is no link to generate new codes, but if you already have a code you can applying it and see if the Chase system accepts it. YMMV. (ht Tikky) Update 4/17/23: Reposting as April 19th is the final day to open for those who already generated a code. The offer link is dead and no new codes can be generated. (For those on a tight eligibility timeline: the system should give you an error message if you are not eligible for the bonus.) Update 2/6/23: Link no longer works to get new codes. If you already generated a code it will continue to work until the 4/19/23 expiration. Update 1/13/23: We posted this yesterday as a targeted offer, and there’s now a public link (updated below). Wow! If you’re not ready to open the account now, I’d recommend quickly using the email option to save the offer for later since the link can expire at any time.
Tried to open new checking/savings today but tells me coupon code is invalid. I opened a checking savings 1 year ago with similar deal however I never got the bonus because of issues with chase account/frustration and just ended closing both accounts after a few weeks. Would that disqualify me from promo now even though I didn’t get the bonus?
Dp…Members First Credit Union (MI) worked to trigger the bonus. I did it for myself and P2. Either Upside or Plynk worked for me, but when I tried both for P2, neither worked. I remembered that some random Credit Unions may do the trick so I sent a “hail Mary” from MFCU. Interestingly…the bonus tracker showed I failed to meet the criteria in time, however a couple days later the bonus posted. Hope this helps somebody. Merry Christmas!!
“Nice, You hit all the marks! Your bonus should arrive by 12/24”
Varous ACH transfers failed. Fidelity failed. Payout from Citi Credit card rewards failed.;
Sent a payout from Upside that posted and sat for a 2-3 days without updating the tracker, but a payout from Treasury Direct posted Friday and the tracker updated Saturday, so I don’t know if Upside really failed or not.
But Chase is buying me a new mini PC, monitor and accessories and a new Motorola phone.
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Upside never worked for me. Data says doesn’t work anymore.
Question – what is every two years from “the last coupon enrollment date”? Is this the date you opened the account or the date you received the bonus? Thanks!
Opened. (Unless for some strange reason you had the promotion code applied later on)
Hello, all!
There is one more way to waive the monthly fees….if you are military/veteran you can UPGRADE your Total Checking/Savings Accounts to Premier Accounts (vs. having a separate LINKED Premier Account).
I waited until the Bonus posted and then stopped at a branch to upgrade the accounts.
Yes, they mail you a letter to let you know… iME. Not a big deal while you’re holding $15K in savings.
Where that falls in is after you get the bonuses and withdraw the funds, the no fee and other perks continue if you choose to keep the account(s) open and use them
has anyone tried melio for DD?
turns out it works!!!
or at least the tracker suggests it does.
Since it’s a business account, not too surprised. Novo is similar and works.
Any DPs for the various gig job payments triggering DD requirement?
Going to start a gig just to get a bonus? If talking about Cash App/Venmo, no, won’t work.
I’m already set up with Instacart and a few that pay out weekly versus the kind that pay instantly to their own debit card.
Doing a single grocery delivery is a lot less hassle than changing my actual DD or opening a Treasury Direct account. So if I can go that route, I’d like to.
Instacart payment worked in 2023….
https://www.doctorofcredit.com/targeted-chase-900-checking-savings-bonus/#comment-1722156
DP:
9/9/24: Opened account.
9/9/24: 15,000 deposit into savings account
9/13/24: 500.00 direct deposit from employer
9/24/24: 300.00 Checking bonus to checking account
12/10/2024: 200.00 Savings bonus to savings account
12/10/2024: 400.00 Extra bonus to checking account
Note:Like others have said around 12/4 it said I no longer eligible for the savings bonus for about 2-3 days until it updated to say bonus was coming soon
For P2:
Opened 9/9/24: initial $20 deposit from CapOne
9/18: used P1 Chase Business Checking to do a payroll deposit of $502
9/24: $300 bonus
10/15: real DD, (since I didnt want to depend on the Chase payroll deposit working I had already changed the work DD to deposit on this day and it was too late to change it prior (they take a month to change it)
12/17: $400 bonus
Savings:
10/7-10/8: deposited 15k (used wire so was out of a wire fee)
12/17: $200 bonus
Will close accounts, the savings made a whole 19c of interest over 2 months!
Don’t spend it all in 1 place!
Opened 8/29/2024
In December I received the status of “Unfortunately, you didn’t maintain your required minimum balance to qualify for your bonus.” I contacted Chase and they confirmed I would receive my full bonus.
12/17: $200 + $400 bonus are showing pending
12/18: Closing this account
What did you use to qualify for DD?