Update 4/3/25: Extended through 7/16/25
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, 2024July 16, 2025
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.
Those who have done a Chase bonus before can do it again after 24 months. Look for the opening date of when you opened your last checking/savings accounts (not the bonus date), then wait 24 months before opening the new account. That will make you eligible for the new bonus.
RELATED posts:
- How To Find The Chase Bank Account Bonus Tracker
- PSA: Don’t Use ACH-Pull for Chase Bank Account Openings, Avoid Account Lockup
- Does Chase Match a Checking or Savings Bonus? (Yes, For 21 Days)
- (Update) My Experience Signing Up For The $900 Chase Checking & Savings Bonus
Useful posts regarding bank bonuses:
- A Beginners Guide To Bank Account Bonuses
- Bank Account Quick Reference Table (Spreadsheet) (very useful for sorting bonuses by different parameters)
- PSA: Don’t Call The Bank
- Introduction To ChexSystems
- Banks & Credit Unions That Are ChexSystems Inquiry Sensitive
- What Banks & Credit Unions Do/Don’t Pull ChexSystems?
- How To Use Our Direct Deposit Page For Bank Bonuses Page
- 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
- Complete List Of Ways To Close Bank Accounts At Each Bank
- Banks That Allow/Don’t Allow Out Of State Checking Applications
- Bank Bonus Posting Times
Post history:
- Update 1/9/25: Extended through 4/16/25
- 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
- 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 (6042)
Just realized that Chase has a new 2 year bonus rule, where you can't get a bonus if you received a bonus within the past 2 years. Seems like I have to wait one more year.
Took 3 days to update the tracking for checking account. $38 PPD ACH.
What you posted is as useless as wet TP. How about contributing some useful data to the community that we all can benefit from. Include where the funds originated from and the complete deposit code, minus any personal info or tracking id's.
I hope one day you understand what you are doing is clearly not healthy for you. Stay well.
Not really useful other than a general idea of tracking speed. Not all "PPD" will work, and you didn't say where it was from. You can go as low as $1.
I read in comments below that 15,000 should stay in savings account for 90 days after enrollment (account opening date), and went back to fine print, and it's correct. But my 90 days passed on March 30th! Now on a call with Customer Service and they are saying that 90 days are counted after deposit day.
But I clearly see below that multiple people received it based on account opening date, not deposit.
Anyone had the same issue?
They put me on escalation process, but it sucks.
They explained to me that it happened because I first deposited money to checking account, and then immediately transferred from checking to savings. It was just more convenient to me, and I did not realize that will be treated as "not new money". $600 lost.
I am not sure if any chance to fight it, very disappointing.
What you did has been discussed here on the forum countless times. Funds must be sent to each account individually from external sources. As you just discovered sending funds to one account then doing an internal transfer does not meet the new money requirement.
To qualify for bonuses again in 24 months, do I close my current accounts and just re-apply?
Sure, but they need to be closed for 90 days... @guest_2053517
Tuesday 4/29 - I signed up for the account
Wednesday 4/30 - got a call from Chase to confirm my identity and they confirmed the application. I then started the external account verification
Thursday 5/1 - I confirmed the external account with the 2 transactions. I then started a transfer within Chase to pull the daily limit ($2500) from the external account. Got a call from Chase to verify my identity. They told me the transfer was rejected and could try again but couldn't promise it'd work. They also removed the external account from Chase. I started the setup of external account again
Friday 5/2 - Got a call from Chase to confirm my identity. They told me that they approved my application (again!). I then confirmed the external account again. I tried to transfer money, again. Got a call from Chase, again, to confirm my identity. Told me the transfer was rejected. Again.
At this point, I'm going to work on pushing the money from my external account, which I found out has a daily limit of $500. So I'm going to have to be creative in getting this account funded with the $15k to satisfy the requirements. I'll provide periodic updates in the near future
See PSA above:
https://www.doctorofcredit.com/psa-dont-use-ach-pull-for-chase-bank-account-openings-avoid-account-lockup/
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hmm, I signed up for both accounts at the same time and the promo took. I get the tracker for the savings account and it shows my 15k in there and to hold it for 2 months for $200.
But I don't have anything for the checking account.
I received my first payroll DD 4/25 into the checking but now as of 5/2 I still don't have my $300 yet.
someone has a secret link to check bonus status below, i tried that and it worked for savings to pull up the same page, but for checking i get a your account bonus, this page is unavailable right. if you have signed up for an offer, please try again later.
Same boat for the tracker. Did the checking promo break somehow?
Has anybody been successful in using Schwab or ETrade transfers to qualify as direct deposits for the bonus?
both are reported not to work any longer on forum
Does Fidelity still work for fake DDs?
If it codes as FID BKG SVC LLC ACH PPD it does. But getting it to code that way takes some extra steps at FID, and between 7-10 days before it is ready to send out. Fid MONEYLINE is a hit or miss, and is more then likely to fail.
What are the extra steps to take at FID to code as FID BKG SVC LLC ACH PPD
Per DP's, from Fidelity online access, select "Transfer", "EFT to or from a bank", "Add a bank or recipient", select "EFT", and when it asks "Who do you want to send money to?", select "Someone else". @guest_2054260
Personally, I haven't tried it.
Just to clarify from what I read, and hopefully someone will respond in agreement or correction, but to avoid the monthly fee, all I have to do is keep an average daily balance of $5,000 or more in any combination of qualifying Chase checking, savings, and other balances. So, if I do the $15k in the savings, I don't have to keep doing direct deposits into my checking account, so I can do other bank bonuses that require direct deposits.
Then does it specify the amount you have to direct deposit, or is it any amount?
#1. I just checked and you are correct about the $5K in combined balances being 1 option for waiving the Checking fee.
#2. There is no minimum amount specified for the DD requirement but I would recommend doing > $1 as the system might think that lower amounts are test deposits.
Does the direct deposit requirement need to be a minimum of $500 per deposit? Thanks
Typically, it's $1 or more. @guest_2052807
Someone said their bonus tracker is showing $500. YMMV
Why incogneto?