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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- Banks & Credit Unions That Are ChexSystems Inquiry Sensitive
- What Banks & Credit Unions Do/Don’t Pull ChexSystems?
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- Common Bank Bonus Misconceptions + Why You Should Give Them A Go
- How Many Bank Accounts Can I Safely Open Within A Year For Bank Bonus Purposes?
- Affiliate Links & Bank Bonuses – We Won’t Be Using Them
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- Banks That Allow/Don’t Allow Out Of State Checking Applications
- Bank Bonus Posting Times
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.
View Comments (5079)
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?
DP
7/25/22: Previous Chase account opened
2/7/23: Previous Chase account closed
9/9/24: Opened Checking & Savings in branch with $900 code.
9/30: Employer DD into Checking
10/1: Pushed $15K from Fidelity into Savings
10/8: $300 bonus posted in Checking
12/8: Savings Bonus Tracker said "Unfortunately, you didn’t maintain your required minimum balance to qualify for your bonus." This seems to be a known glitch, so I ignored it.
12/10: Bonus Tracker updated and confirmed that bonus would be paid in "15 business days"
12/17: $200 + $400 bonus are showing Pending in Savings.
Can someone please tell me what the best schedule for churning this?
Stupid me, I opened my last account in April 23, got the bonus but never closed the checking (only closed savings), closing that tomorrow to be prepared for next round.
I guess most of you close right after getting the bonus?
You not closing is not an issue. You have to wait 24 months from last Enrollment (opening). Close no later than 90 days before your churn. @guest_1971087
Thank you for making me feel better :)
So I won't be eligible again till April 25, so I guess closing now (which is about 3 months before that) is ok timing, right? Thats if another offer is there in April
Correct. Unknown if there will be a $900 offer then, but before this offer became commonplace, $600 was the norm with the same requirements.
Thanks. And BoA offers are typically 1 year after closing, right?
Yes.
How many days does it take to update the bonus tracker if DD hits it?
And what is a good way to move money to savings? Is it ok to push 5k? Is it ok to pull 5k? I'll move from different banks.
@guest_1967898,
If possible, NEVER pull into Chase or pull from Chase. Based on DPs that I've seen and from my own experience, it's best to push into Chase to move funds in and to push funds out of Chase to move funds out.
It's fine to push $5K into your Chase Savings each from 3 different banks to reach the $15K requirement.
With Chase accounts you should originate your ACH requests from the outside bank. Whether pushing in or pulling out.
" and to push funds out of Chase to move funds out. "
No, that's where they locked me down a few years back. PULL from another bank OUT of Chase initiating from a different bank.
Push IN to Chase.
Tracker showed/updated very next day after account approved.
11/23/24 account opened for 900 savings/checking bonus
12/10/24 $1 C of I on Treasury Direct transferred to Chase checking.
12/16/24: Coded as PPD. $300 bonus pending deposit on 12/17/24
Waiting on 15,000 deposit to transfer into savings to get full $900 bonus
What are y'all using to trigger the checking DD bonus as of December, 2024? Originally I did the Fidelity CMA push, but I read that if it shows "ACH Credit" that it's not going to count. I've got about 3 weeks left in the 90-day window to clear another DD for safety.
Buy and sell a gift card on GCX. Have the proceeds go to the checking account. That worked for me a couple of months ago.
same running out of options!
C of I Treasury Direct Deposited