Bank bonuses are great but one of the big (and annoying) requirements on many promotions is that you set up a direct deposit from your employer or government benefits.
Switching those direct deposit details can be a pain so what about offers that don’t require it?
They’re rarer, because they make you less likely to keep the account in the first place, but they’re still available.
Here are the best ones:
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- Barclays Bank – $200
- Citi Checking with Enhanced Direct Deposit — $300
- Wells Fargo
- First Horizon Checking Bonus – $450
- Huntington Bank Platinum Perks Checking – $600
- CIBC Bank USA – up to $500
- South State Bank — $200
- Alliant Credit Union — up to $100
- Associated Bank Checking — up to $600
- Regions Bank
- S&T Bank – $300
- Expired Offers
The content on this page is accurate as of the posting date; however, some of the offers mentioned may have expired.
Barclays Bank – $200
Barclays is offering a $200 bonus for new customers.
Open a new Savings account, deposit $25,000 or more within 30 days and maintain at least $25,000 for the next 120 days.
After you’ve maintained the balance for 120 days, the bonus will be deposited in approximately 60 days. There is no direct deposit requirement.
We like this offer because you get the bonus in addition to a competitive high yield interest rate of 4.35% APY. A lot of high deposit bonus offers don’t pay any interest.
Terms Apply.
(Offer expires 5/3/2024)
Citi Checking with Enhanced Direct Deposit — $300
Looking for a Citi bank bonus?
Citi Checking with Enhanced Direct Deposit is a limited time offer where you can get a $300 bonus when you open an eligible checking account by 7/8/24 with qualifying Enhanced Direct Deposits and completing required activities.
What are the required activities? I’m glad you asked!
You qualify for the bonus when you have two (2) Enhanced Direct Deposits directly into your new checking account within 90 calendar days from account opening. Your total combined Enhanced Direct Deposits must equal $1,500 or more.
🙋♂️ Why is this being listed on this if there is a direct deposit requirement? Because you can make transfers through Venmo and Zelle. It doesn’t have to be a “classic” direct deposit where it’s government benefits (Social Security) or payroll from your employer. It can be but it doesn’t have to be!
Your bonus will be deposited into your account within 30 days of completing the required activities.
Click below to read the terms of the offer, you can get this without a traditional direct deposit.
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo has two promotions that do not require a direct deposit:
Wells Fargo Savings – $525
If you want to collect $525 from Wells Fargo and have $25,000 lying around, here’s how you can get it:
- Open a new eligible consumer savings account at a Wells Fargo branch with a minimum opening deposit of $25 by January 9, 2024. You must provide the bonus offer code to the banker at the time of account opening.
- Bring $25,000 or more in new money to your new savings account by Day 30 and maintain at least a $25,000 balance through Day 90 after account opening.
You’ll get the bonus within 30 days of meeting these requirements.
If you don’t have $25,000, there’s a smaller offer of $225 if you deposit $10,000. See that offer here. (expires 4/9/24)
This offer must be completed in a branch, click through to the Wells Fargo page and enter your email to get a code.
(Offer expires 4/1/2024)
Wells Fargo Premier – $2,500
Wells Fargo has a Premier Checking account that offers a massive $2,500 if you bring over more than a quarter of a million dollars.
To get this sizable bonus, you need to:
- Open a new Premier Checking account at a Wells Fargo branch with a minimum opening deposit of $25 by 4/1/2024. You must provide the bonus offer code to the banker at the time of account opening.
- Bring $250,000 or more in new deposits to qualifying linked accounts by Day 45 and maintain at least a $250,000 balance through Day 90 after account upgrade or opening.
- They will deposit your bonus into your new Premier Checking account within 30 days after you have met all offer requirements.
You will have to visit a branch to complete this offer. Enter your email on the promotion page to get your offer code and instructions.
Note: The account has a $35 monthly service fee that can be avoided if you have $250,000 or more in account balances with them.
👉 Learn more about this promotion
(Offer expires 4/1/2024)
First Horizon Checking Bonus – $450
First Horizon has a $450 bonus on their checking account if you meet a few simple conditions.
You have to be a new client and maintain an average daily collected balance of $5,000 in your total deposit balance AND make a minimum of 10 qualifying transactions for each statement cycle for the first three full statement cycles. That’s it!
A “qualifying client-initiated transaction” is broad. It includes deposits, checks paid, ACH items, and signature and PIN-based purchases made with a First Horizon Debit Card.
One caveat – the offer page says that the “Offer is only available to the addressee of the offer, is non-transferable, may not be combined with other offers, and is only available for new clients that have not had an account at First Horizon within the last 12 months.” But you can get an offer code sent to you if you enter your information on the page we link to below.
This offer is available in LA, NY, SC, TX, TN, AR, MS, AL, GA, KY, FL, NC and VA.
There is a $2 monthly fee but waived if you opt for electronic statements plus you need to keep the account open for six months or you forfeit the bonus.
(Offer expires 4/30/2024)
Huntington Bank Platinum Perks Checking – $600
Huntington Bank is offering a bank bonus on their Huntington Bank Platinum Perks Checking account and get $600 when you meet the qualifying requirements.
Just open it before the deadline, make cumulative new money deposits of $25,000 within 90 days of account opening, keep that money in there for 90 days, and you can get $600 deposited within 14 days of meeting that requirement. Available to residents of Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, West Virginia, or Wisconsin.
The Huntington Platinum Perks Checking account has a maintenance fee you can get waived if you meet certain conditions.
(Offer expires June 7, 2024)
CIBC Bank USA – up to $500
CIBC Bank USA has a bank bonus promotion where you can get a up to $500 cash bonus when you open a CIBC Agility Online Savings Account and deposit funds of $25,000 or more in New Money from an external bank by 12/19/2023 and keep those funds in the account until 3/18/2024. There is a minimum $1,000 deposit and no monthly fees.
Best of all, the account offers a yield of 5.01% APY so you earn interest while you wait for the waiting period to end.
The bonus will depend on the amount deposited by 12/9/2023:
- Get $250 if you deposit between $25,000 and $49,999,
- Get $500 when you deposit over $50,000.
You must have less than $500,000 in the account though. (it’s a strange quirk in the terms and conditions)
The bonus will be deposited no later than 5/17/2024.
South State Bank — $200
South State Bank has an offer of $200 and you have to satisfy these two conditions with 60 days:
- make a minimum of 15 debit card purchases or payments, and,
- Have a monthly total of $250 qualifying direct deposit OR preauthorized automatic draft(s) of $25.
As you can see, a direct deposit is one of the options but is not required. You can satisfy it by making enough purchases.
You must also be a resident of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Virginia.
Get $200 from South State Bank
Alliant Credit Union — up to $100
Alliant Credit Union has a partnership with Suze Orman called “The Ultimate Opportunity Savings Account” where you can get up to $100 when you open a new Alliant Credit Union account by December 31st and make deposits of at least $100 a month for twelve months.
These deposits do not have to be direct deposits, they just have to be transfers into the account. Make sure it’s at least $100 a month for a full year and you’re set. The first transfer has to be done within 30 days and they deposit the $100 bonus after 12 months.
Opt for eStatements and you can avoid the monthly maintenance fees.
Learn more about about this offer
Associated Bank Checking — up to $600
Associated Bank’s has three promotions (three tiers) for their checking and savings account – the Associated Access Checking, Associated Balanced Checking, and Associated Choice Checking.
Open an account with the required minimum balance (listed below) and your bonus is calculated based on your account balance from the 60th to 90th day (a little weird but the list below should make sense):
For the Associated Access Checking, the minimum deposit is $25. it is $100 for the Associated Balanced Checking and Associated Choice Checking accounts.
This is how much you get based on your average daily balance over days 61-90:
- For amounts $1,000 to $4,999.99 – you earn $300;
- For amounts $5,000 to $9,999.99 – you earn $400;
- For amounts over $10,000 – you earn $600;
Check the fees on each of those accounts because they will vary.
Learn more
(Offer expires 3/31/2024)
Regions Bank
Regions Bank LifeGreen Checking — $300
Regions Bank LifeGreen Checking has a $300 offer that has pretty easy requirements to meet – but one of them is to set up a direct deposit.
Open an account with the promotion code RGSPRNG24RM and make $1,000 or more in qualifying ACH direct deposits (deposits must be new to Regions) that must post to your account within 90 days of account opening and enroll in Online Banking. You have 60 days so it’s certainly plenty of time but you don’t want to waste too much of it.
Available to residents of AL, AR, FL, GA, IL, IN, IA, KY, LA, MS, MO, NC, SC, TN, and TX and be sure to read the terms to make sure you qualify.
Learn more
(Offer expires 6/30/2024)
Regions Bank LifeGreen Savings — $100 (DD optional)
Regions Bank runs a promotion with their LifeGreen Savings account where you get up to $100, structured as an annual savings bonus.
The $100 is structured as an annual savings bonus. Open a new Regions LifeGreen checking account or LifeGreen Savings account and earn a 1% annual savings bonus of up to $100 when you have an automatic transfer of at least $10 from your Regions checking account to your LifeGreen Savings account is required in at least 10 of any of the 12 calendar months that precede the month of your account opening anniversary. The bonus is calculated on the average monthly balance for the 12 calendar months that precede your anniversary month.
Available to residents of AL, AR, FL, GA, IL, IN, IA, KY, LA, MS, MO, NC, SC, TN, and TX and carefully read the terms to ensure you qualify.
Learn more
(Offer expired not displayed)
S&T Bank – $300
S&T Bank has an offer available to residents of Pennsylvania and Ohio if you live close to an S&T Bank (I know it’s only two states, sorry if you don’t live near one!).
The bonus is super easy:
- Visit a local branch and open a qualifying checking account,
- Make at least two direct deposits of $500,
- Get $300!
The Select Banking account has no maintenance fee but the other two account levels do.
You will need to go to a different link depending on where you live:
(Offer expires 12/31/2023)
Expired Offers
Below, we’ve listed a few offers that have expired since we published them. We keep them listed in this group below in case the banks bring these offers back. They also act as a useful point of reference.
Capital One 360 Savings – up to $1,500 [EXPIRED]
Capital One has a great no direct deposit offer on their Capital One 360 Performance Savings bonus. Just open an account and deposit at least $20,000 in new funds into the account during the 15-day initial funding period and keep it there for an additional 90 days. No direct deposit required at all.
There’s a promo code of FALL23 on the offer page, make sure you enter that in if it’s not automatically entered for you.
- Earn a $300 bonus when you deposit $20,000 – $49,999,
- Earn a $750 bonus when you deposit $50,000 – $99,999,
- Earn a $1,500 bonus when you deposit $100,000 or more.
If you have or had an open 360 Performance Savings, 360 Savings, 360 Money Market, Savings Now or Confidence Savings account as a primary or secondary account holder with Capital One on or after January 1, 2021, you will be ineligible for the bonus. If your account is in default, closed or suspended, or otherwise not in good standing, you will not receive the bonus..
(Offer expires 1/9/2024)
CIT Bank – Amazon Prime Membership ($139) [EXPIRED]
It’s not every day that you see a bank bonus that isn’t cash but you will today – CIT Bank will give you an Amazon Prime Membership ($139) (good for a new or existing Prime customer) when you:
- Open a new CIT Money Market account using the promo code AMZN22;
- Fund your account with at least $15,000 within 15 days and keep a minimum balance of at least $15,000 for 60 days following the 15-day funding period.
- Within 30 days following the end of the funding period, if you’ve fulfilled the requirements, we’ll send you an email with your Prime membership code.
This is available for new and existing CIT Bank customers too – you just need to open a new Money Market account with the promo code.
Marcus by Goldman Sachs – $100 [EXPIRED]
This offer is expired now but they always bring it back in the spring.
Marcus by Goldman Sachs will give $100 to new or existing customers when you deposit $10,000 or more into a new or existing Online Savings account within 10 days of enrolling in their offer. Then, keep that amount for 90 consecutive days and you will get $100.
This is available to existing customers too, you just need to add an additional $10,000 to your balance to qualify after you enroll in the offer.
(Offer expires 2/15/2023)
Live Oak Bank – $200 [EXPIRED]
Live Oak Bank is an internet bank that offers both consumer and business checking accounts. This Live Oak Bank bonus promotion is available for either type and no direct deposit needed.
The offer terms are simple:
- Open a new Live Oak Bank savings account by the deadline (3/31/2022),
- Deposit $25,000 into the account by the deadline (money must be new to Live Oak Bank, cannot be a transfer from another account),
- Maintain a balance of at least $25,000 for 90 days from the date you funded,
- Collect $200!
This is available for new and existing customers.
(Offer expires 3/31/2022)
Aspiration Spend & Save — $150 or $200
Aspiration has a bank bonus of $150 or $200 when you open a new Aspiration Spend & Save account and then spend $1,000 within the first 60 days of account opening.
This welcome bonus does not require a direct deposit, which makes it very appealing for those of you who don’t like swapping those around just to get a bonus!
You get $150 when you open an Aspiration account or you can get $200 when you get an Aspiration Plus, though the spending requirement is the same. There are several differences with the two accounts, including how much cash back you can earn, but the fee structure is a key difference. With Aspiration, you “pay what is fair” even if it’s $0 and with Aspiration Plus it’s $7.99 per month, or $5.99 if you pay annually.
Get $150 or $200 from Aspiration
jim says
hi,
are sure this is for personal or business?
https://wallethacks.com/best-bank-promotions-with-no-direct-deposit/#h-bank-of-hope-500
Bank of Hope shows it’s for business only: https://www.bankofhope.com/checking-cash-bonus
Hi Jim – it appears they updated the offer to business only, so you are correct.
Andy Thomas says
The South State Bank offer information is inaccurate. It should not be on this list. A direct deposit is required to receive the bonus.
The offer changed (and also expires) so I will update it.
warren R clennan says
Your comments re: South State bank are incorrect. They require both qualifications to receive the EARN 200 bonus. I have, however, used your info to acquire 2 bonus bank promotions of $300 and $500 ea. Thank you very much. W. Clennan
Great catch, they recently changed the terms slightly so I missed it in the update, thanks Warren!