Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of Application Forms (docs), our new white-labeled UI designed to help you launch faster and give time back to developers. The new Application Form is a fully-customizable front-end experience that Unit clients can now use to onboard end-customers: individuals, sole proprietors, and businesses. Unit clients will now be …
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How Unit Helped Tribevest Simplify Group Investing
Tribevest is a collaborative, group investment platform that makes it easier for individuals to incorporate, fund, and manage joint investments. Travis Smith, CEO and founder of Tribevest, founded the company as a way to help friends and family simplify group investing and unlock financial freedom. To help achieve this vision, Tribevest partnered with Unit, a …
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Unit Integrates with Plaid Exchange to Enable Client Open Finance Connectivity
Earlier this year, Unit announced our first integration with Plaid that allows our clients to move funds seamlessly between end-customer accounts on the Unit platform and external bank accounts. Today, we’re happy to announce Unit is now integrated with Plaid’s open finance platform Plaid Exchange. Plaid Exchange enables Unit clients to be discoverable and connected …
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How Unit Helped Moves Improve the Collective Financial Health of Gig Workers
Moves is an all-in-one financial app built exclusively for gig workers. The gig economy accounts for a third of the world’s employed workers and is projected to reach $455 billion by 2023. By 2027, the US is expected to see 60% of its workforce as independent workers. However, while millions of Americans earn their primary …
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How Unit Helped Benepass Deliver a Better Benefits Experience for Companies and Their Employees
Benepass is a benefits platform designed for modern companies to make it easier for employees to navigate and access their tax-advantaged accounts and benefits. Tax-advantaged benefits can add up to thousands of dollars in tax savings for employees and employers each year. However, historical usage is low and the average employee only deducts about 3% …
Unit Partners with Allpoint to Provide Access to over 55,000 Fee-Free ATMs
Unit today announced it is adding the Allpoint Network of surcharge-free ATMs to its platform as part of a new partnership agreement with Cardtronics. By providing access to the Allpoint Network’s 55,000 ATMs, Unit clients can now give their customers a physical connection point for fee-free cash deposits and withdrawals in high-profile retail locations nationwide. …
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How Unit Helped Wethos Empower Freelancers to Grow their Business and Capture More Revenue
Wethos is an end-to-end platform that helps freelancers transform their one-person shop into full-service studios. Wethos’ co-founders, Rachel Renock and Claire Humphreys, know the pain of scaling a services business first hand after leaving the agency world to form their own studio. Wethos brings scalable infrastructure to independent businesses and makes it easy for freelancers …
Changelog – April 2021
We're excited to share some of the new features that shipped this month at Unit. In addition to the updated application page to show evaluation flags that we shared earlier this month, we've also made the following updates to our API and platform. Wire Support: All accounts on Unit can now receive wires. (docs)Interest: You …
Updated Application Screen to Show Evaluation Flags
Today, we're announcing a new feature on the Unit Dashboard to give clients better insight into why an application may be approved, awaiting documents, or denied. Our goal is to provide more detail into what evaluation criteria were flagged and why a particular document may be requested. In the individual application page of the Unit …
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Unit and Abound Partner to Make it Easier for Freelancers to Plan and Pay Their Taxes
The U.S. freelance workforce continues to grow at a rapid pace, further accelerated by COVID-19 and seismic trends towards remote work and greater workplace flexibility. By 2027, over 86.5 million people are projected to be freelancers and will make up a majority of the U.S. workforce. Unit’s mission is to make it easy for tech …