What is Visa Savings Edge and why Should you Care?
Do you like earning cash back on purchases you were planning on making anyways? Who wouldn’t? With Visa Savings Edge, you can enroll your Visa business credit/charge card and start earning cash back right away. For most readers, your Chase Ink Bold/Plus Visa Credit/Charge Card is the go-to card. To register and start earning cash back, click here. Click the Get Started button to create an account.
To read the entire tutorial, please click here.
UPDATE 3/27/2014 at 10PM PST: Updated this post with a picture showing how fast statement credits posted to my Chase Ink Bold Visa card after a recent Staples purchase.
What is Visa Savings Edge and why Should you Care?
Do you like earning cash back on purchases you were planning on making anyways? Who wouldn’t? With Visa Savings Edge, you can enroll your Visa business credit/charge card and start earning cash back right away. For most readers, your Chase Ink Bold/Plus Visa Credit/Charge Card is the go-to card. To register and start earning cash back, click here. Click the Get Started button to create an account.
You can register up to 10 Visa business credit/charge cards with 1 Visa Savings Edge account. Fill in all the personal information and click Submit at the bottom.
Staples is the obvious choice among all the cash back merchants. It is pretty simple, earn 1% cash back on all purchases of $200 or more at Staples Stores and online through the Staples website. As long as you pay with your registered Visa business card and you charge more than $200 in one transaction, you will receive cash back.
According to the terms and conditions, the cash back will post as a statement credit to the credit/charge card that was used during the purchase. Here is the small print of the cash back offer:
As you can see, my $206.95 Staples order (any guesses what that could be?) posted on 3/23 and I received my statement credit 2 days later on 3/25. Pretty fast Visa, I’m impressed!
Are you using Visa Savings Edge? If not, you are missing out on free money. Missing out on free money makes me sad :(
If you have any questions, please leave a comment below.
New Southwest Airlines Routes (Orange County to Cabo) and Free Gogo WiFi for a Year with Samsung Galaxy Tablet Purchase
In case you didn’t hear, Southwest Airlines has added a few more routes for later this year. The Wall Street Journal (link) has all the details, but here are the highlights:
Beginning Aug. 10, 2014, Southwest Airlines will operate daily, nonstop flights between:
To celebrate the new service, Southwest Airlines is offering introductory fares (including U.S. and non-U.S. taxes and fees) for nonstop flights from these U.S. gateways:
Flights from SNA to Cabo are pretty reasonable. Taxes/fees are a bit higher to/from Mexico than domestic flights in the United States:
How to Earn Kicks for Shopping and Visiting Stores
Create a Shopkick account here.
This is the easiest (and cheapest) option to earn Shopkick Kicks. All you have to do is bring your smartphone close to the front entrance of certain stores and you will earn Shopkick Kicks just for visiting. It helps if you have the app open and running on your smartphone when you enter the store. Sometimes stores will offer additional Shopkick Kicks if you visit at a certain time or on a certain day.
Here is an offer from Office Depot for 150 Shopkick Kicks (worth 60 cents) for visiting on a random day.
Once you are close enough to the front entrance of the store, the app should make a sound and show you a message on the front of the screen.
Walmart only offered me 30 Shopkick Kicks (worth 12 cents) for visiting.
Target offered me 40 Shopkick Kicks (worth 16 cents) for visiting.
Some stores, like Target, offer additional Kicks for scanning certain items. Click the Scans box in the middle to see what items you need to scan.
I need some Tide detergent, so I click the Tide icon and head to where Target sells the Tide.
Click the bar code icon in the lower right corner.
Find the right product and scan the bar code on the back of the item.
Shopkick will validate that the scanned item is correct and deposit the Kicks into your account.
Already scanned items will show up as grayed-out in your Shopkick account.
If you have any questions, please leave a comment below. Happy shopping!
How to use Shopkick with Office Depot
Create a Shopkick account here.
Plink Points not enough? Well, you are in luck then. A new company called Shopkick will reward you with Shopkick Kicks (points) for certain purchases. The great thing is you can double dip with Plink Points and Shopkick Kicks on all Office Depot purchases (through April 11 when Plink removes Office Depot). You can link up to 6 Visa and MasterCard credit cards to Shopkick (hopefully one is an Ink Bold/Plus card). The payout structure is shown below. You earn 1 Kick per dollar plus bonus Kicks if you spend more than $25, $50, and $75 in one transaction.
Let’s say you wanted to buy a $200 Visa gift card at Office Depot with your Chase Ink Bold card, your total would come to $206.95. Here is what you would get back:
So what exactly is a Kick worth? Great question, I thought you were never going to ask. Kicks can be redeem for egift cards, here are my top 3 choices (other gift card options exist):
| Value | Kicks | CPP |
| $2.00 | 500 | $0.40 |
| $5.00 | 1250 | $0.40 |
| $10.00 | 2500 | $0.40 |
| $25.00 | 6250 | $0.40 |
If you do the math, each Kick is worth 4/10 of a cent. So 581 Kicks x 4/10 of a cent = $2.32. So let’s go through the math one more time:
$3.00 in Plink Points + $2.32 in Shopkick Kicks = $5.32, almost enough to cover the $6.95 activation fee. So essentially you are “buying” 1,035 Chase Ultimate Reward Points for $1.63 cents. Not bad right? Currently, there is no transaction limit in place, unlike Plink’s 10 transactions per 30 day period.
If you have any questions, please leave a comment below.