Mercury Reviews

Who is Mercury Bank?

Not to be confused with the Mercury credit card or the Mercury insurance offered by the Bank of America. Mercury bank is a neobank catered towards StartUps. The virtual bank is held under Evolve Bank & Trust’s wing, meaning Mercury is not a bank but a financial service.

Furthermore, Mercury was launched with the desire to support Startups back on April 17th, 2019. The bank is located in the “StartUps Paradise” in San Francisco, California.

How safe is Mercury Bank?

As Mercury is under the wing of a bank, you have your checking and saving accounts insured up to the FDIC limit of $250.000. At the same time, the fintech product is catered towards StartUp and is brilliant at what it does. Moreover, Mercury offers a two-step sign-up through tokens and full logs of all the activity on your bank account.

However, we would advise that for a larger project with a large amount of backup and investment, maybe even listed on the stock exchange; you should consider a larger bank.

From another perspective reviewing the support Mercury bank receives from important investors, venture capitalists, and hedge funds, many influential individuals in the fintech product and its success see its need in the market. But, now, we still believe that it is a bank suitable for smaller companies and start; however, their investor portfolio might make you disagree with us.

We are moving on with our Mercury bank review and looking at creating a bank account and what features you have available.

How do you open a Mercury bank account?

To open a Mercury bank account is as easy as it gets, and it shouldn’t take you more than 10 minutes to apply for one. First, you will need to provide all your personal information, choose a password and wait for approval from the bank. The approval takes about 48h, and you are all set to work with it. That is at least the pleasant experience we had with Mercury; however, this might differ from individual to individual. Still, keep in mind they have a very responsive and helpful customers support team that will get back to you in no time.

While we are delighted with the experience, we remarked on some shortcomings in making international transfers to the Mercury bank account. Therefore, if you find yourself in a similar situation, try making the transfer with Wise towards Mercury. Then, you will have the money in your bank account quickly as if you were making a domestic bank transfer.

Mercury Startup Bank Features

Some of the most appreciated features that Mercury comes with and which we will discuss in this Mercury bank  review are the following:

We can say so far it is interesting for an easy-to-use product and pretty share in the “make what people want” area.

Mercury bank API Access

Mercury Startup bank comes with an easy-to-implement API that will give you access to all your transactions. Above all, this will help you automate processes and save you time. First, however, to implement this API, you must follow a few steps.

Implementing Mercury API

First of all, to do this whole process, you will need to log in to your Mercury bank account, then follow the following steps:

User Permissions

Invite team members to the bank account, giving them specific roles such as:

Moreover, if the person you would like to have access to your bank account does not fall under any of these categories, Mercury gives the option to create a custom role.

Mercury Mobile App

Mercury startup bank offers an IOS application that enables you to take all the actions you would take from in front of your computer. However, the fintech product does not offer an Android version of the app, but if you have an Android phone, you can still access your bank account from the web-based version.

Cash Management

Probably one of the collection features Mercury offers. Essentially, this Mercury bank feature proves that Mercury is a true fintech product and is worth all the support it gets from Silicon Valley investors.

The feature offers an automatic cash management system, meaning that you can choose to invest the extra money in your startup in the U.S Government securities financial instruments. Now, if you are wondering why you should do that. Well, the answer is simple. As for your finances, you keep money in your bank account. However, you essentially lose value so instead of doing that, make them work for you and multiply them to avoid inflation and for extra security and profit. So it is passive income.

Above all, Mercury bank made it super easy, and you don’t need a team of specialists to make this work for you and your startup.

Sharp Security

Mercury startup bank offers full activity logs and two steps logging authentication process secured through a token on your mobile phone. Each code the token provides on your mobile phone is unique and expires fast.

Mercury Bank Integration

You can integrate your Mercury account with the following:

Mercury Bank Review Conclusion

To sum up, Mercury bank offers a startup-catered fintech product. Mercury is not a bank. However, its services are provided and backed up by it. Moreover, it comes with a state of the art security and integrations with the most commonly used payment gateways in the United States.