Build Skills™ Launches in Plinqit

by | Aug 2, 2018 | Articles, Blog, Business, Marketing, News, Uncategorized

HT Mobile Apps is excited to announce our newest feature in Plinqit, Build Skills™, an educational platform that pays users for learning more about personal finances and saving.

That’s right. Plinqit users get paid for learning!

It’s simple. Here’s how it works.

Plinqit users do the following.
• Watch an educational video or read an article
• Take a short quiz
• Money is added toward their Plinqit savings goal!

Recent studies show that 57% of American have less than $1,000 in a savings account. Almost 40% have $0 in a savings account. This means that currently one in two Americans are one incident away from a financial crisis.

Plinqit is the free, simple and easy way to the first step toward financial freedom and path to personal financial success. Plinqit and its Build Skills platform helps users by providing sound financial education in order to save and plan for future financial needs such as buying a home, building a rainy-day fund or saving for a child’s education. And, Build Skills helps them earn more money toward their savings goal.

HT Mobile Apps is proud to partner with financial institutions who are sponsoring Plinqit in their markets.

Interested in learning more about how Plinqit can help your financial institution, your customers and your local community? Contact us today for more details.

Most Recent Posts

Plinqit Invited to Demo High Yield Savings for Business at FinovateSpring 2026

Fintech innovator tapped to showcase SMB deposit solution at premier industry event Plinqit, an award-winning provider of high-yield and automated savings software solutions that enable financial institutions to grow deposits, attract new customers, and expand their...

Bank News | Why high yield savings is a must-have for business owners

Businesses across the country are trading hands to their younger inheritors. This massive shift in ownership of small- and medium-sized businesses represents an equally massive shift in how financial institutions should think about business accounts. Millennial and...

Bank Business News | Why Is It So Hard to Open a Small Business Account Online?

It was the bank’s customers that inspired my idea for a small business. As VP of digital banking at a well-regarded financial institution in Michigan, I saw the dichotomy between customers’ appearance and their account balances. It cemented the idea that savings is...

This Underutilized Product Could Fuel Your Growth Strategy

What if the key to scaling your financial institution's deposits, reaching new customer segments, and strengthening your brand isn't about the shiny-and-new or the “tired”-but-true, but revisiting one of the most overlooked yet successful retail products? Savings...

Defending Deposits Through Transparent Rate Communication

There’s healthy skepticism, and there’s just plain skepticism. The jadedness that comes from feeling taken advantage of, dismissed, or mistreated. It used to be a quality highly correlated with Gen Xers, but it seems more and more that consumers are skeptical of most...

The Generational Shift in Business Banking

Why Inherited Business Owners Won’t Stay Loyal to Their Parents’ Bank Imagine you’re the only child of a family business with a provenance in your community, and the plan all along has been for you to inherit and take on the legacy. You’re looking forward to running...

Plinqit CMO Elected to AFT Board of Directors

Plinqit Chief Marketing Officer Kirsten Longnecker was elected by a vote of her Association for Financial Technology peers to the association's Board of Directors at the recent Fall 2025 Summit. Longnecker will serve a three-year board term with the organization,...

Actionable Takeaways from AFT Fall Summit

Magic was in the air at Association for Financial Technology (AFT)'s Fall Summit in Banff, Alberta, Canada, last week. In addition to the setting, the speakers were magnificent, bringing use-this-now acumen to their presentations and panel sessions. Here are 6...

High Earners, Low Savers?

What Gen X and Boomers Are Getting Wrong About Saving If we were competing in pub trivia on the question “Which generations drive the most deposit growth for banks and credit unions?” I would bet most fintechs would say “Gen Z and Millennials,” and most bankers would...

The Great Wealth Transfer & the Business Banking Shakeup

When $84 trillion changes generational hands, many of whom are small business owners, will your financial institution be ready to help? $84.4 trillion of generational wealth is not a hypothetical. It’s the forecasted amount of wealth moving from Boomers to Millennials...