An app designed for everyday spending and tomorrow's savings

KOHO is your everyday Mastercard account that helps you make progress. Spend, build, save and earn your way to financial health.

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Get Essential for $0*

Get Essential for $0 when you set up Direct Deposit or load $1000 per month.

Earn 1% cash back on groceries, transportation, food, and drink. Additionally, earn up to 5% cash back at partner retailers.

3.5% interest on your entire balance.

Your money, managed your way

KOHO is a prepaid Mastercard that gives you all the spending power of a credit card without the interest. Your app and physical prepaid credit card work together to make day-to-day finances smart and stress-free.

Earn cash back and up to 5% interest on your account balance and save more. Pair this with KOHO's spending insights and budgeting tools that shows you how you are tracking each day, week, or month.

Build your credit history

Want to build your credit history? Try Credit Building by KOHO. No deposits, no interest rates. On time repayments help to improve your credit history and a strong credit history can help to improve your credit score.

KOHO users see an average credit score increase of 22 points in their credit history after just 3 months of using Credit Building.***

Instant cash back

Enjoy unlimited instant cash back on every purchase, and amplify your savings with up to an additional 50% cash back at select merchants.

Earn high interest

With your KOHO account, you can earn up to 3.5% interest^* on both your spending and savings account.

Your funds are securely held with a variety of financial institutions, and all interest-bearing deposits are eligible for CDIC protection.

No minimum balance is required. No delays and no need to make a bank appointment.

Budgeting and planning

Automate your savings goals and bill payments whether it’s small expenses, or your future savings. We’ve also made it easier to help you save as you spend by allowing you to choose to round up purchases to the nearest $1, $2, $5, or $10. You can also get balance updates after each purchase and spending insights to help you to stay on track.

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FAQFrequently Asked Questions

KOHO is a spending and savings account where you can get instant cashback and earn interest on your entire account. You get a prepaid reloadable credit card that gives you all the spending power of a credit card without any interest.

Unlike a credit card, however, the KOHO card draws from funds that are already your money. This key difference makes could help you spend more mindfully. It’s connected to a smart budgeting app that simplifies day-to-day finances with spending insights and you can sign up to receive balance updates after each purchase.

It’s pretty simple. You add funds to your KOHO account in one of three ways: setting up a direct deposit, e-Transfer from your regular bank account, or loading through an existing debit card.

You can then use your KOHO card, either in person or online, to make purchases just like you would with any debit or credit. Even more impressively, your new KOHO card supports Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay – it’s one of the only cards available that supports all three of those payment platforms. If your cellphone is NFC-capable you can tap away or just use your physical KOHO card to complete a transaction. Talk about convenience!

The big difference is that we’re digital-first. We prioritize financially empowering our users. For example, we do not charge any fee for ATM Withdrawals⁺. Consequently, we can keep our costs low and aim to pass these savings to our users.

Plus, you get unlimited cashback on all your purchases and 5% interest on your account balance. You can make even more when you shop at our brand partners.

The bottom line? You can earn money just for buying the things you were going to buy anyway, but without the stress and risk of going into credit card debt.

Also, our app is pretty awesome.

For most of us, KOHO is the perfect solution. And if you’re okay with having your paycheque deposited directly and you never need to write a paper cheque (and let’s be honest, very few people write paper cheques any more, not in a world of Interac payments and PayPal), you could technically use KOHO for all your chequing account needs and ditch the expensive Big 5 Bank chequing account for good. Why pay $15 or more per month for a paper-based chequing account when you can get KOHO Essential at no fees?

And with KOHO (unlike those other institutions) there are no NSF fees if you run into some difficulty with a transaction, lower foreign transaction fees than the Big Five banks charge (1.5% with KOHO versus 3.5% with the big banks), free and unlimited e-Transfers and even access to your money from any ATM. KOHO is everything you should need in a bank account, plus a whole lot of exciting additional tools.

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