Anyone familiar with American Express credit cards should be familiar with the Amex Offers program. Amex Offers are basically coupons that you can add to your credit card which are redeemed when you complete a qualifying activity. A great example of an Amex offer is $50 off a $350 purchase at Cole Haan. That’s one that I’ve used a few times over the years. Amex Offers are great and I check them every few weeks to see if there is anything on there that I’d get any value from.
Well, not too long ago Chase introduced their own coupon program called… Chase Offers. If I’m honest, shortly after writing about Chase’s introduction of Chase Offers, I forgot about them. I’m not sure why, but I just don’t think to check Chase Offers as often as Amex. I’m guessing that’s because American Express emails me weekly with new offers, but also because Amex offers are displayed prominently at the bottom of each account page. Chase on the other hand only emails occasionally and the offers are buried at the bottom corner of the account page. No matter the reason, I don’t check Chase Offers often enough, and that’s a shame.
How To Activate Chase Offers
Like Amex Offers, you have to activate and link Chase Offers to your card to receive credit. To activate Chase Offers, begin by visiting the bottom left corner of your chase credit card account page.
When you find the Chase Offers box, click see all offers, to reach your Chase Offers account page. On the Chase Offers account page you’ll see a graphic that shows your YTD savings and below that you’ll see a listing of available Chase Offers that you can add to your card(s).
As you can see above, I’ve used 0 Chase Offers this year, which is a shame because there are some decent offers available.
When looking though the available offers you’ll immediately notice that Chase Offers aren’t quite as robust as Amex Offers. Still, I’d bet you could get use from at least one of the offers currently available.
Specifically, I noticed the CVS offer as one that I could use this upcoming week. When I clicked into the CVS offer it was automatically added to my card. As I read the fine print I noticed that Chase is offering $4 for CVS purchases. Actually the offer is 10% back with a $4 maximum. Still, I could easily spend $40 at CVS between now and 10/27/19.
Personally, I’m going to head over to CVS and get a few household items that I’d buy anyway to take advantage of this offer.
Final Thoughts
I’m guessing I’m not alone in forgetting about Chase Offers. Chase doesn’t seem to do that great of a job advertising them to existing Chase card holders. That’s a shame because there are some decent offers available to Chase card holders. I looked through my Chase accounts and had Chase Offers available on the Chase Sapphire Reserve, Chase Freedom, and Marriott Bonvoy credit cards.
The Chase Freedom card actually had a few Chase Offers that I suspect most could take advantage of. I’m sure I could get value from the 5% Cash Back Starbucks offer. I don’t have AT&T or Verizon, but I know a lot of people that do that could be betting 5% back on their monthly phone bills.
Basically, if you have a Chase credit card I’d recommend paying more attention to Chase Offers. Sure the offers aren’t fantastic, but throughout the course of the year you might save a few bucks and it’s hard to complain about that.
