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Unit’s banking-as-a-service platform lets you embed powerful, custom financial features. Learn how Unit’s flexible API enables you to quickly build banking for independent, gig economy, and freelance workers.

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Use Cases

Discover what you can build with Unit

Unit’s flexible API is a simple integration that enables you to build custom financial features, at speed and scale.
01.

Simple Onboarding for Any Type of Independent Worker

Instantly onboard individuals, sole proprietors, or business customers using either our white-labeled UI or API endpoint.
Applications
Application Forms
Freelance banking application
02.

Abound Integration

Automate the account creation, tax withholding calculation, and money transfer for quarterly tax payments with our Abound integration.
Deposit Accounts
Abound Integration
Payments
Freelance platform bank account creation and tax management view
03.

Check Deposits

Allow your users to deposit checks by uploading images of the front and back of the check using a dedicated SDK and API.
Check Deposit
mobile cheque deposit API for freelance platform example
04.

Cash Advance

Add the ability to offer cash advance loans based on future earnings. Let users instantly access their loan via their virtual or physical debit card.
Payments
Business Virtual Debit Card
Business Debit Card
Cash advance platform for freelancers
05.

Send & Receive Payments

Build in a seamless way for your users to send and receive real-time book payments, ACH, wires, batch payments, and cross-border transactions. Use our Plaid integration to further reduce friction and risk.
Payments
Plaid Link
Real time ACH payment platform for freelancers
06.

Plaid Exchange

Let your users connect instantly to thousands of apps on the Plaid network using Unit's integration with Plaid Exchange.
Payments
Plaid Exchange
07.

Quickbooks

Enable your customers to easily connect their banking to Quickbooks to pull in transaction, balance, and account information for better bookkeeping.
Quickbooks
Connect freelancer bank account to Intuit Quickbooks
Why Unit

The all-in-one platform to build banking

Unit takes on the toughest parts of building freelance banking so you can build and launch with ease.
Fully-featured technology
Launch quickly and grow with a robust set of banking features available via a modern API and Dashboard.
Compliance simplified
Unit streamlines compliance so you can build, launch, and grow faster.
Embedded bank partnerships
We bring the bank relationship to you. Spend less time interacting with partner banks and more time on your end-customers.

People and infrastructure you can trust

Launch freelancer banking products at the speed of startups with the reliability and scale to support enterprises.
Scalable
Our pricing ensures that we are aligned in your success, while our platform supports startups as well as publicly listed enterprises.
Reliable
We have proven our ability to support customers of all sizes with a 99.997% historical uptime, dedicated communication channels, and a global team.
Secure
We take data security seriously, with enterprise-level security and privacy built-in to our modern API.
Mathew Spoke, CEO of Moves (a partner of Unit)

“Unit acted as a true partner, owning the bank relationship, compliance, and saved us the time, energy, and money we would have had to spend training and building a compliance team ourselves.”

Matthew Spoke
,
CEO of Moves

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How Unit Helped Moves Improve the Financial Health of Gig Workers
"Unit acted as a true partner, owning the bank relationship, compliance, and saved us the time, energy, and money we would have had to spend training and building a compliance team ourselves.”
- Matthew Spoke, CEO of Moves
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How Unit Helped Wethos Empower Freelancers to Grow their Business
"By partnering with Unit, we were able to accelerate our product roadmap by two years and make our dream of giving studios access to embedded banking and real-time profitability tracking a reality.”
- Rachel Renock, CEO & Co-founder of Wethos
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How Unit Helped Lance Build a Banking App for Freelancers
"We evaluated other APIs and Unit was the easiest to use and fastest to launch. Unit has been a partner from day one and continues to innovate with us as we grow."
- Oona Rokyta, CEO & Co-founder of Lance
Lance Unit banking app for freelancers
How Unit Helped Benepass Deliver a Better Benefits Experience
"Unit was also able to lift the compliance burden off of us and allowed us to focus on building a great benefits experience for our end users, not manage compliance and bank relationships"
- Jacklyn Chen, CEO of Benepass
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Unit case study Benepass
How Unit Helped Tribevest Simplify Group Investing
"Unit was able to partner with us and help create a that allowed us to seamlessly migrate from our current sponsor bank to Unit. The integration has been seamless and we’re excited to be able to offer business banking to all our Investor Tribes so they can start investing and building wealth."
- Travis Smith, CEO at Tribevest
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