California Earned Pay

Earned pay,
explained.

Your membership. Your advance. The full cost. Read how Earned Pay works and the terms that come with it.

A clear path

From earned pay
to your account.

Membership comes first. When enrollment opens, separately authorize and pay the $8 monthly membership before Monet checks your payroll and earnings. Payment does not guarantee approval or an advance.

Connect payroll

With your permission, Pinwheel retrieves employment and payroll information so Monet can assess your eligible earned pay.

Link your backup bank

A new advance repays on your next verified payday. One separately authorized debit-card attempt is followed by one ACH attempt on the next California day only after definitive card failure and verified payroll redirection.

Choose where it goes

Review an eligible offer and its supported payout destination. Stripe processes the U.S.-dollar payout; timing depends on the receiving method and bank.

Connecting payroll does not enroll you in membership, change your direct deposit, authorize a debit, or guarantee an advance. Each permission is separate. No payroll switch, prior deposit or cryptocurrency wallet is required for the regular earnings route. A Monet USD receiving account is needed only for the optional deposit route; a separate $25 provider verification fee applies if not already paid.

Eligibility

Based on pay
you’ve already earned.

Monet reviews accrued, unpaid earnings and other program requirements. Your individual offer shows the amount available to you before you decide.

A $25 starting advance

$50eligible unpaid take-home pay

A $25 advance needs at least $50 in eligible unpaid take-home earnings. Earnings can add up over multiple completed workdays. This is not a daily income minimum.

Limits follow your earnings

  • An advance can be up to 50% of eligible unpaid earnings, before other deductions and checks.
  • The agreement sets a $25 starting limit and a maximum of $200, subject to verified earnings and individual risk review. Higher limits are not automatic.
  • Only one advance may be open at a time, and no more than one advance may be made for the same pay period.
  • Where payroll supplies gross wages, Monet estimates take-home pay from completed shifts and past paystubs.

Another way to qualify: complete your direct deposit switch through Monet using Pinwheel. Choose and authorize the amount sent to your Monet USD receiving account, then receive two separate verified, settled employer payroll deposits, each over $200 before conversion or deposit fees. Both must match your payroll account, employer, authorized destination, payroll amount and pay date. Exactly $200, smaller deposits combined, a single larger deposit and repeated notifications do not meet this requirement. Pending, returned or unmatched payments do not qualify. You can use the regular earnings route without switching or receiving deposits. Advance amounts still depend on verified unpaid earnings and account checks.

Verified payroll matched to a confirmed switch has no extra five-day ACH hold after settlement. Other deposit, security and return holds remain.

Neither a payroll connection, a membership payment nor a previous repayment guarantees eligibility or a particular limit. No advance is offered on this page.

Fees, in dollars

See the full cost
before you accept.

The advance fee is collected at repayment. It is not deducted from the amount you receive. Membership is a separate monthly charge.

Advances up to $100

$5per advance

A $5 fee applies to an advance up to and including $100.

Advances above $100

5%of the entire advance

No additional $5 is added. Percentage fees round to the nearest cent, with a half cent rounded up.

Advance repayment examples
You receiveAdvance feeAdvance repayment
$25.00$5.00$30.00
$100.00$5.00$105.00
$101.00$5.05$106.05
$200.00$10.00$210.00

Include the membership in your budget. In a month with one $25 advance, Monet charges are $5 for that advance plus $8 for membership: $13 in fees, excluding the $25 principal. The total advance repayment is $30; the $8 membership is billed separately.

Membership is charged once per membership month, not per advance. Multiple advances each have their own advance fee. These are dollar-cost examples, not offers or APR calculations. Monet does not add a late/default fee, collection charge, partial-payment penalty or tip under these terms. Any separate payment-route charge must be shown before acceptance. Your bank may charge fees under your separate bank agreement.

Separate membership

$8 a month.
Your choice to continue.

You separately authorize membership before any recurring charge starts. Reading these terms or connecting payroll is not consent to a subscription.

Payment before the check

The first $8 payment is required before Monet checks your payroll and earnings. Paying does not guarantee approval, an advance or a particular limit.

Before enrollment, you’ll see the first billing date, monthly renewal schedule, selected payment method, price and cancellation control. A current paid membership covers checks during that billing period; reconnecting does not start another subscription.

Membership renews monthly until cancelled, including months when you receive no advance or have no eligible earnings. Membership fees are not included in advance repayment or either backup payment authorization.

Cancel when you choose

You may cancel through the membership control at any time. Cancellation takes effect immediately, ends membership benefits and stops future renewals.

You do not have to repay an outstanding advance to cancel membership. Cancellation does not close your general Monet account.

Membership fees already paid are nonrefundable except where applicable law requires otherwise. Cancelling membership is separate from cancelling an advance request or changing a payment authorization.

Repayment

Payroll first.
Two limited backups.

Your individual offer names each payment method, its exact California submission date and its maximum amount. Saving a payment method does not authorize repayment.

Payroll is the primary repayment source

Changes to payroll deposit instructions require separate authorization. Verified payroll repayments reduce the outstanding principal and accepted advance fee. A paystub, expected payday or wallet balance is not confirmation that repayment was received.

Both backups require verified payroll redirection

Before either attempt, Monet must freshly verify that you redirected your authorized payroll allocation away from the agreed destination, confirm that payout completed before the authorized card day began in California, and reconcile a positive unpaid balance with no pending or unresolved payment that could duplicate collection.

A missed or smaller deposit, lost payroll connection, unpaid balance, timeout or missing notification alone is insufficient. Both separate payment authorizations must remain valid.

One card attempt, then one conditional ACH attempt

First: one charge to the debit card you separately authorized, on its exact date. Second: one ACH debit on the immediately following California calendar day, only if Stripe definitively confirms that the authorized card attempt failed and all ACH conditions are met before that fixed ACH day ends.

A pending or unknown result, additional customer action, canceled payment, reversal, dispute, revoked authorization or timeout does not permit ACH. A successful card charge that is later reversed or disputed does not qualify as a failed card attempt. If the card was not attempted on its authorized day, or failure is confirmed too late, ACH is skipped.

No card retry, no ACH retry and no third automatic attempt. Dates do not shift. Both exact dates stay within 34 days after payout. California calendar days include weekends and holidays; provider processing may finish later.

Only the full reconciled advance balance

Each permitted attempt is for the full unpaid principal plus the unpaid advance fee disclosed in the accepted offer, up to that method’s separately authorized maximum. If the maximum does not cover that full balance, the attempt is blocked. Membership, undisclosed fees and other advances are excluded.

Late payroll reduces or eliminates a backup charge. Monet accounts for submitted payments before applying another repayment and returns any excess through a verified route. Partial payroll or voluntary payments reduce principal first, then the accepted fee, without adding another charge.

Your cancellation and payment rights

You may cancel an advance request in the app before payout is submitted. After submission, it may be too late to stop that transfer. Contact Monet promptly to revoke a backup authorization or ask your bank or card provider about stop-payment controls. Disconnecting payroll or bank data does not by itself revoke a payment authorization or mark an advance as repaid.

Applicable rights to revoke authorization, stop payment or dispute an incorrect or unauthorized charge remain in place. A submitted payment may already be in process. These new authorizations apply to new v3 offers; they do not add a card charge to an existing ACH-only authorization or replace an earlier accepted agreement.

Nonrecourse promise

Monet and applicable business partners have no legal or contractual claim or remedy against you based on failure to repay the amount due in full. They will not engage in debt collection for that amount, place it as debt with or sell it to a third party, or report that amount to a consumer reporting agency.

This does not prevent a transfer you separately authorize. For this advance, the nonrecourse promise controls over conflicting Monet terms. Nothing takes away your rights under applicable law.

Your permissions

Each choice
is separate.

Membership enrollment, electronic records, payroll information, deposit instructions, the advance agreement, backup debit card and backup ACH each require your separate affirmative action. None is preselected.

With your permission, Pinwheel retrieves employment and payroll information for Monet’s eligibility review and the payroll instructions relevant to an advance. Permission to retrieve information is separate from permission to change direct deposit.

Stripe provides the supported U.S.-dollar payment processing. Receiving or repaying an advance does not require a cryptocurrency purchase, a blockchain wallet or a separately priced virtual account. Payout timing depends on the selected method, Stripe and your bank; verification, processing, bank holidays and returned payments may cause delays.

See Monet’s Privacy Policy and general Terms of Service. The Earned Pay agreement governs the advance-specific terms, including its nonrecourse promise. Earlier accepted advances keep their accepted terms.

Read it. Keep a copy.

Terms & disclosures

California agreement version ca-earned-pay-2026-11-07-v8. The full texts and PDFs below are retained copies of the paid-service documents. Customer forms require the actual offer details and your separate acceptance; an uncompleted form is not a subscription, payment authorization or advance.

Advance agreement

Save advance agreement as text

Fee schedule

Save fee schedule as text

Membership disclosure and consent

Save membership disclosure and consent as text

Payroll repayment authorization

Save payroll repayment authorization as text

Conditional debit-card authorization

Save conditional debit-card authorization as text

Conditional ACH authorization

Save conditional ach authorization as text

Electronic records consent

Save electronic records consent as text

Individual offer form

Save individual offer form as text

The membership form retains billing terms ca-earned-pay-2026-11-06-v2; the new repayment agreement uses v3. Review each actual amount, date, masked payment method and separate authorization in the app before accepting. Existing accepted agreements, mandates and subscriptions are not replaced by this webpage. New advances and membership enrollment remain paused.

Questions before you decide?

Ask about eligibility, payments, cancellation or copies of your records.
Do not send full card or bank-account numbers by ordinary email.