If you don’t have a SoFi checking account yet, check out the new referral offer of $25 new user bonus + $250 direct deposit bonus. Open a new SoFi Money account and add at least $10 to your account within 5 days, and get $25. Then get up to $250 additional bonus with qualifying direct deposit. Plus up to 4.00% APY. Details here.
SoFi (“Social Finance”) is a financial “super app” that expanded from students loans into banking, stocks, crypto, credit cards, and more. Here are some of their other offers; New users can receive a separate opening bonus for each separate part of SoFi (Money, Invest, Crypto, etc).
- SoFi Invest Referral Offer: $25 new user bonus. Brokerage account. Open an Active Investing account with $100 or more, and you’ll get $25 in stock.
- SoFi Invest Alternate Offer: Claw Game. Feeling lucky? Compare the $25 guaranteed above with a ~95% chance of a smaller $5 or $10 bonus, but a 0.028% chance of a $1,000 bonus.
- SoFi Invest Asset Transfer Offer: Up to $5,000 Bonus. Transfer over your existing assets from another broker and SoFi will pay you a bonus. From $50 bonus for transferring $5,000 in assets all the way up to $5,000 bonus for $2 million in assets.
- SoFi Credit Card Referral Offer: $50 bonus. Standard feature is 2% cash back with no annual fee.
- SoFi Credit Card Alternate Offer: 3% Cash Back on SoFi Credit Card Purchases for 12 months.
- SoFi Crypto: $10 to $100 new user bonus. Get $10 bonus for a $50 trade, $100 bonus for $5,000 trade.
- SoFi Student Loan Refi: $300 bonus. Warning: Do your research before refinancing your Federal student loans to a private lender.
- SoFi Personal Loans Referral Offer: Fixed $300 bonus. Fixed $300 bonus, 90 days after successful funding. The loan has no fees and you can pay it back in full after 90 days.
Expired SoFi Deposit Bonus details: In September 2022, SoFi offered a Deposit Bonus of up to $1,000 depending on the amount of new money you brought over. The offer expired 9/30/22, but I’m keeping some details up for future reference.
- Transfer at least $5k into your account by 9/30/22.
- Maintain your balance until at least 11/30/22 in order to receive your rewards.
- As long as your account is in good standing, you will receive your rewards points by 12/14/22.
Bonus Rewards Points: On December 1, 2022, SoFi will calculate the final Transferred Funds amount and will determine the Bonus Reward Points that you will earn based on the schedule below based on the table below. If your Account remains open and in good standing, your Bonus Reward Points will be added to your SoFi Rewards points balance by December 14, 2022.
A maximum of 100,000 Bonus Rewards Points, corresponding to a maximum value of $1,000, can be earned from this limited-time offer. 100,000 Bonus Rewards Points are equal in value to $1,000 when redeemed into SoFi Checking and Savings, SoFi Invest, SoFi Crypto, SoFi Personal or Student Loan Refinance loans and are equal in value to $500 when redeemed as a SoFi Credit Card statement credit.
Transferred Funds Amount Bonus Rewards Points Cash value of Bonus Rewards Points when redeemed into SoFi Checking & Savings
$5,000 – $9,999 5,000 $50
$10,000 – $24,999 10,000 $100
$25,000 – $49,999 25,000 $250
$50,000 – $99,999 50,000 $500
$100,000+ 100,000 $1,000
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I used your referrals.
Thanks!
The fine print says:
” Only one referral reward and one welcome bonus per new customer: you will not receive multiple referral bonuses for the same friend taking out multiple loans or products, nor will your friend receive multiple welcome bonuses for taking out multiple loans or products.”
Sounds like that may not be correct if you received both Jonathan? I guess best to do the Cash account first just in case since that’s the larger bonus
You may be correct, I read that as you won’t 5 bonuses if the same friend opens say 5 SoFi Money accounts (and neither will the friend). I read it as if they opened one of each it would be okay, but it is possible that they interpret it differently.
I’ve used Sofi account for about 6 months so far and a fan so far. I found it gave me the best exchange rates (slightly) at overseas ATMs in my limited experimenting. It is now my goto for access cash while traveling.
That’s an impressive deal. I’ve looked through the SoFi web site. What’s the catch?
No catch, the customer acquisition cost for a banking or brokerage product is often in the $100 to $300 range. SoFi is choosing to give it to people directly, as opposed to TV ads or a billboard. There are competitors with similar high interest rates and free trades now, so they have to try harder to get you to try them instead of someone else.
Do we need to provide SSN to open accounts?
Yes, same as with all bank and brokerage accounts.
Happy to use your referrals. Thanks for all the great advice over the years! 🙂
Thanks for reading!
Hi Jonathan,
I used your link and appropriated the info. Have been following your website side for a while and keep the good work!
Thanks
Thanks for the using my link, and thanks for reading! Look for your bonus to show up by tomorrow.
Thanks! used both of your referral links.
Thanks!
Seems like I only got 1 bonus for opening both accounts. Funny I opened the Invest account first, but they are giving the bonus for the Money account.
I haven’t gotten the SoFi Invest bonus yet either. Perhaps it just works on a different time schedule.
I have a question. Is this investment for Banks or Stock Market?
Jonathan, I used your link and opened a Money account. I have not funded it yet. When I go to Membership dashboard and click Refer a friend, I only see my personal referral link for SoFi personal load or student loan. What am I doing wrong?
Perhaps you can’t refer others until you fund your account?
I contacted customer support and found out that the referral links for Money and Invest are only visible inside the Android/iOS apps for SoFi. Problem solved.
Thanks, I had to find them in the app as well, but I figured I just didn’t look hard enough on the browser version. Strange design choice.
is this a soft or hard pull?
Soft for both SoFi Money and Invest for me.
thanks… opened using your link.
Thanks, I appreciate it!
Has anyone received their bonus money? My deposit has come through and shows in my “money” but my bonus amounts show up as transactions, but aren’t present in my “money”.
They started putting a hold on it for a week or so, so you can’t withdraw it until they make sure your referral is legit.
SoFi Invest bonus ended yesterday (Oct 31)
Has anyone tried the SoFi Money account today? Do the bonus and referrals still work?
As of 11/1, the SoFi Invest link works but still shows the 10/31 expiration date.
The SoFi Money $50 bonus for $100 deposit is still live and working. There is no expiration date given.
Thanks! I used your referral link. It says my $100 funding transfer will be available on 11/7. No message or email mentioning the $50 bonus coming. Hopefully I’ll see it this week.
Is this a pull ACH transfer when they use your logon credentials to transfer the money from the funding bank? There would be no fee for that. I’m wondering if I’ll get a transfer fee from the funding bank for this method.
Shouldn’t be a fee, as SoFi is initiating the pull and they would be the one to charge any fee (and they don’t).
Thanks. Used your referral link and got my welcome bonus and the bonus for referring the wife already.
Note for others that the app and website can be a bit wonky on older phones. I couldn’t download the app on my old phone (Samsung S5) and when I used the web browser, I could log in, but it kept throwing up error messages when trying to navigate through the site. My workaround was to just download and log in using the app on my wife’s phone. No problem using website on my laptop, but as others mentioned, you do need to use the app to send the referral.
Used your links! Been a long time reader (2007 i think?). Enjoy the $150!
Thanks for reading, and sorry for all the typos over the years! 😉
Looks like they reduced the SoFi Money referral bonus down from $100 to $50.
Thanks for the heads up. They also removed the 10/31 expiration date for the SoFi Invest bonus and kept it at $50, so at least that’s clarified as well.
My deposit finally showed up in My “Money” today but still no sign of the referral bonus. Does that usually come later? I used your referral link on 11/1.
Great experience with Sofi support. I didn’t receive my referral bonus so I contacted support through email. They responded quickly and let me know the information that they needed to submit the referral manually. I provided that information and the bonus was deposited on the next business day. Now that is service!
Have you received your investment bonus? It said that it would be deposited within 10 days. I still don’t see mine. Thanks!
Sorry to hear that. It’s kind of hard to tell for me because they don’t tell me what the referral bonus is from, someone else, or from me opening the account. And if someone else I don’t know for who it is. I haven’t gotten my free stock either though, I just thought they might have just given me the cash instead. I would contact SoFi and ask for help if needed. If you need something from me, please email at jonathan at this domain or use my contact form.
Signed up using your link, for both the Money and the Invest accounts on Oct 29. The Money bonus showed up right away, but I never got the Invest bonus (should show up within 10 days). I contacted them via chat today, and they said they needed verification from you to add the bonus (i.e. they asked that I have you contact them to verify my referral). Just a heads up for others that may be missing the Invest bonus. Same thing happened when I subsequently referred my wife, so I’m guessing you’re missing the bonus from my sign up also.
Sorry to hear that. I don’t see any of your personal details (name, email, etc) when you use the referral link, so if you something on my end like that, please send me your first/last name and the e-mail address you used with SoFi and what you would like me to do to my email at jonathan at this domain or use my contact form. Please don’t leave personal details in a comment. Thanks!
Thank you! I just chatted an agent at So Fi and they said the investment bonus would be credited in 7-10 business days. Hoping you get the bonus. Thank you again for all your help through the years. Hope you and your family have a Happy Thanksgiving!
The SoFi invest bonus does pay out, but it seems much slower
As of now, the SoFi money bonus seems to be down to $25
Based on my personal experience with SoFi, don’t trust them to pay the bonus they advertise. I signed up and was really liking the interface and what they had to offer, until they wouldn’t pay the bonus I signed up under. I can’t give them my money if I can’t trust them. My recommendation is that you explore some of the other options out there–there are a lot of other online banking and investing options available now. SoFi was not a good experience.
***Have come across numerous other people who haven’t gotten the bonus either–beware!!!
Is this just updated content? I got an email about it yesterday, but the comments seem to be quite old. Also, can you refer your children? Happy to use your referral link. Thanks!
Yes, this is updated content (with old comments, sorry).
Here is my referral link. It definitely works!
https://www.sofi.com/share/invest/2857597
how could i direct deposit if i don’t have a job? is there any other way to meet that criteria? Regards PK
Jonathan, the money links have expired. Any chance you can share a refreshed link?
Thanks for the heads up. It appears that SoFi has expired the old links because they changed up the terms. The bonus is now $25 if you fund with $500. Lower bonus but easier qualifications. This $50 Chime bonus looks to be possibly better now:
https://www.mymoneyblog.com/chime-banking-review-referral-bonus.html
Do you know their definition of what a direct deposit is? I am currently not working so have no income coming in but can set up a monthly direct deposit from another bank. Would that count?
Just opened account using your referral. Routing # shows THE BANCORP BANK.
Is it right?
Yes, 031101334.
I didn’t get an email. Does that mean if I go to that link (https://www.sofi.com/banking/balance-offer) and use the “Add money” button to transfer funds, I won’t get the rewards? There is this fine print down at the bottom — “This offer is limited to one per account. You must receive this offer directly from SoFi to be eligible — so I’m guessing I’m out of luck.
I recommend doing a live chat with SoFi or otherwise contacting them to see if you are eligible. Worst thing they can say is no.
They said No
Good to know, thanks for the update. May I ask if you already had direct deposit set up with SoFi?
I didn’t receive an e-mail for the SoFi bonus, but it’s appearing within the app on the ‘Banking’ tab as of today. So maybe it’s available to all customers now?
Thanks for the tip, I see it in my banking section of the app as well (but I also got the email). Worth a look.
Jonathan, thanks for the info on this promotion. I have been using SoFi for a while now and had a good chunk in the checking and savings. But once I realized they don’t allow beneficiaries for the accounts, I transferred out. Without beneficiaries on those accounts, they go through probate if I happen to die. Just an fyi in case you were not aware. I use ally bank now since they have the same rate. Have a good one.
To Qualify for the Deposits, Does the deposit have to be initiated from external bank?
Willthe external transfer initiated withinb SoFi counts as deposits?
Those definitely apply as well, just not the only way. You can use SoFi’s transfer system or initiate from your own external bank.
So would this beat buying US treasuries even if you account for the zero state tax on the treasuries?
Is the bonus calculated based on the newly transferred money to an existing account or is the bonus calculated based on existing money+the new money transferred?
Is anyone using the overdraft feature that automatically pulls from savings into checking? SoFi claims this is completely free, but I’ve never used this feature elsewhere as I’ve always been uncomfortable with it. Having all my money earn 3% instead of 2.5% would be nice, though.
(fwiw I learned today they offer free paper checks!)
Thanks!