Laurel road is great, but Laurel road is great. Love the checking and savings accounts. App easy to use. Refinanced student loans with incredible rate. My one issue is that I can’t use it with 3rd party apps like YNAB and EveryDollar. I did finally get YNAB to work recently but it’s inconsistent and involves a difficult login procedure each time you want to get transactions. EveryDollar won’t connect at all and they say it is Laurel Roads issue. I really want to switch to EveryDollar this year since it’s cheaper.

Using as a savings for my daughter Laurel Road was suggested to me by a coworker as a savings account for my daughter. The process to open an account was very straightforward and quick. The true test will be in the actual banking processes! So far deposits from my own checking account have been easy, it just takes a few days to process. 10/10 as of now overall!

Good rates, horrible service Randomly locks your account for weeks on end every time you try to withdraw money (to accounts you have already verified). They were able to reverse it relatively quickly the first time when they requested documents for verification, but it's been locked again for upwards of two weeks and the person on the phone just says "there's no information we need at the moment, the fraud department is conducting a security review and your account will be locked for up to 30 days." They even sent me a letter saying I had "confirmed fraud on my account", which I hadn't. The interest rate is good, but it's for a fundamentally different product than advertised since you won't have easy access to your money. EDIT: The day after I posted this, they unlocked it. so I guess, if you want access to your money, just leave a 1-star review! EDIT 2: Just to be clear, they never requested any information from me to "ensure my identity" during this, instead they tried to get the review taken down by submitting a clarification request on this platform, which would have auto-deleted my review after 3 days. Hey at least whoever monitors these is doing more work than their fraud department... EDIT 3: they just sent me a letter saying they're closing my account. Do your sanity a favor and avoid Laurel Road

Update from my last entry Update from my last entry. My account was unlocked and then locked again a few days later. Spent 30 mins on phone while being transferred around 5 times to find out Laurel Road was closing my account. Whatever, just send me a check. Before I could give a mailing address, I got hung up on. Ignore the 5% savings rate. They are banking terrorists and they will take your money hostage.

Its first day i am trying but feeling… Its first day i am trying but feeling very good