OnePay: $50 Referral Bonus For New Users, $100 For Person Referring

Update 7/30/26: Bonus is back, $50 for new users and $100 for person referring. We won’t repost at this stage.

Looks like referral program is now dead.

Referral program is down for now

Extended to July 31, 2026

Update 6/16/26: Referral bonus is now $50 for person signing up and $200 for person referring. You can find and share referrals here. 

Update 2/16/26: Some people are seeing a $300 offer after signing up for a OnePay Walmart credit card. Requires $3,000 in direct deposits. 

Hat tip to reader Moshe

Reduced back to $125

Update 11/30/25: Offer is back and slightly higher at $180/18,000 for opening a OnePay Cash account and making three direct deposits of $500+. (Not as good as the prior $250, but it hasn’t been that high in a while.) Also get 10% cash back at Walmart from OnePay on your first Walmart purchase made within your first month, on up to $200 spent. Might be possible to stack this with a $50 referral signup bonus. (Check out this post about the OnePay debit card.) (The old $300 direct deposit bonus is no longer available.)

Update 11/27/25: Rakuten is at 17,500/$175 now for opening a OnePay Cash account and making three direct deposits of $500+. (Not as good as the prior $250, but it hasn’t been that high in a while.) Also get 10% cash back at Walmart from OnePay on your first Walmart purchase made within your first month, on up to $200 spent. (Might be possible to stack this with a $50 referral signup bonus.) (Check out this post about the OnePay debit card.) (The old $300 direct deposit bonus is no longer available.)

OnePay Review

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OnePay is a fintech online bank with no fees and no minimums. They are FDIC-insured through a bank partner, Coastal Community Bank, Member FDIC.

• They offer 3.35% APY interest on their savings account. They also have rewards deals for the equivalent of 5% back at select merchants.

They also offer unlimited account creation which they call Pockets that you can create to separate money for various purposes and even share them with other people.

• Soft pull
• Unknown if credit card funding is possible
• Requires a direct deposit of $5,000 per month

Post History

$50 Referral Bonus Referral Terms | Referrer Terms OnePay also has a referral program with the following bonuses:Both referrer and referee get a bonus of $50 when the person signing up receives a direct deposit of $250+. You can refer a maximum of 10 people per year. We’ve created a page where readers can share their referrals. Do not put your referral links in the comments below.

• Update 8/18/25: $100/10,000 on Rakuten, plus the $300 direct deposit bonus with $5,000 per month. (I believe it’s each month for September and October that you need the $5,000 in direct deposits.) (ht Artin)
• Update 6/23/25: There is a new $300 bonus. This requires a direct deposit of $5,000 per month
• Update 5/27/25: Now $185 on Inboxdollar, can get another $50 from OnePay for direct deposit.
• Update 2/3/25: Rakuten is increased to $250 now
• Update 1/27/25: Rakuten is now at $200 (ht Tikky)
• Update 1/8/25: The $125 Rakuten is available again, or $100 Swagbucks, or around $107 on MyPoints. There might also be $25 in bonuses from One after signup for completing certain tasks.
• Update 11/7/24: Now $125.
• Update 10/15/24: Now reduced to $75
• Update 10/6/24: Now $125/12,500 Membership Rewards points on Rakuten.
• Update 9/17/24: Now reduced to $75.
• Update 9/16/24: Now $125/12,500 Membership Rewards points on Rakuten. Hat tip to DDG
• Update 7/22/24: Rakuten and Swagbucks both offering $75 bonus now; Rakuten requires $200 deposit, Swagbucks requires $30 deposit. There’s also an additional $25 bonus showing in the One app for adding your One debit card to Apple Pay, funding your account, and activating a cash back reward.
• Update 6/28/24: Now $75 signup bonus via Swagbucks for depositing $30 (ht Kory)
• Update 5/13/24: There is now a sign up bonus of $100. You get $75 by going through Swagbucks and depositing $30 and then can get another $25 in app when you link Google Pay. Hat tip to reader Jimmy
• Update 6/27/23: Rate is now 5.00% APY on Savings balances up to $100,000 when you receive $500 a month in eligible direct deposits or have a total daily balance of $5,000 or more.
• Update 9/20/22: Apparently new customers do not get the 3% rate; only existing customers get it as a grandfathered benefit.
• Update 7/20/22: Some One Finance customers got the following email: starting August 8, 2022, your Save Pocket and the current balance in your Auto-Save Pocket will both earn 3.00% APY. Up to $25,000.
• Update 10/19/21 3/28/22 back again: This is now 11,250 ($112.50) on Swagbucks and 22,500 on MyPoints ($142-$150) via their Revenue Universe walls. Swagbucks link | MyPoints link You should also get a $50 direct deposit bonus offer after signing up and also (sorry, expired) $5 after first debit purchase. (ht Kris)
• Update 9/7/21: Now  $87.88 on Swagbucks via RevU or $102 via 15,200 MP. Hat tip to Davis.
• Update 8/10/21: Swagbucks is offering $75 for opening an account and setting up direct deposit of $100 or more. Hat tip to CT
• Update 1/13/21: There is a $50 bonus for existing users that add two recurring paycheck deposits of $250 or more to their One account from 1/1/2021 through 11:59pm PST on 3/05/2021. I assume you can’t do this if you do the referral bonus/have done the referral bonus in the past. First direct deposit must be received by 11:59pm PST on 1/31/2021.
• Update 1/1/21: Reposting as referral offer has been increased to $50.

Our Verdict

In the current interest-rate environment, even 1% APY on $25,000 is nice, though it probably wouldn’t get me to change my direct deposit. The more interesting part is the ability to get 3% APY which is terrific. It’s also a soft pull to open the account (no Chex either).

Though limited to 10% of paycheck, there’s no stated limit on how much can earn the 3%; if you have $120,000 in paychecks going to One Finance, you can max this out with $12,000/yr going to the 3% Auto-Save account. According to the current rules, that should be able to continue building year over year as you increase the balance – after 2 years you can have $24,000 earning 3%, after 3 years $36,000, etc. (Of course they can always add a limit or change the rate in the future, but for now it sounds good.)

We’ll add this to our list of Best High Yield Savings Accounts.

Thanks to readers Chris R, AA, and Trey for sending this in.