Free Tools to Earn More Rewards Points on Online Shopping, Dining, and Rideshares

14:23Meghan Coyle:But if you do have a purchase that is going to be more than$100 or$200 that you know, you always make online, I would look for that.

14:32Sally French:Okay, knock on wood. I don't wear contacts. I got perfect vision.

14:36Meghan Coyle:And last thing I want to say about this is that the airline shopping portals are pretty regular at hosting limited time promotions. So I just saw one recently that was like, earn another 500 loyalty points if you spend$50 in the portal. That's a pretty low spending threshold. And sometimes it's even more than that. So I often see these around big shopping periods, you know, like back to school time, Memorial Day, that kind of thing. So that might be another time that like, maybe you don't shop online all that often, but you're like, oh, you You know, it's about to be Labor Day. I'm going to buy some back to school supplies online.

15:14Meghan Coyle:And you could go through a shopping portal and earn at least a couple extra miles.

15:19Sally French:I'm not a big online shopper, but I got to tell you, my next door neighbor is a package king. He gets four packages a day minimum. Oh, no, that's too much. Well, he's probably getting a lot of airline miles out of these. I hope so. I hope. Now, for our people who are not big online shoppers, you might be a big dine out kind of person. I love food. And there are also airline dining rewards programs. We can get extra airline miles or points or whatever by dining out.

15:44Meghan Coyle:That's right. So again, they have all different names. A, Advantage Dining for American, Delta Sky Miles Dining, United Mileage Plus Dining, Atmos Rewards Dining, even Built has one like a dining program. So these ones are a little bit different and you don't actually have to shop online. you just link a debit or credit card to your profile. And then anytime you eat out at a participating restaurant and pay with that linked card, you automatically earn extra points or miles. It's literally like a set and forget it type of thing. What I do is there is one credit card that I use for all of my dining purchases.

16:22Meghan Coyle:And I link that one to my dining program. And that's it. I honestly, I don't even look and see if any of the restaurants I'm going to are in these dining programs. It's just sort of a nice surprise that I will be like, oh, I'm eating here. And then I come back and I see an email and it's like, oh, you earn six points per dollar on your dining. And I was like, oh, great. Amazing.

16:45Sally French:So I have actually signed up for these. One day I was completely procrastinating from work and I did link my credit card to these dining programs. and I will share that many restaurants are not on these programs. I think there are more online stores on the online shopping portals than restaurants that are on the dining programs. It does feel very random, but every once in a while, I'll go dine out and then I'll get an email from American Airlines because that's who I've synced my dining program to. And they're like, you got four points per dollar at Uno Dos Tacos, which is nice. So I definitely don't go out of my way, but that one time I go to Uno Dos Tacos and then I get the points is a really nice benefit.

17:22Sally French:I do like, as you said, it is set it and forget it. You can, though, check. I've seen on these dining portals websites where they'll have special offers and they'll say, today, Uno Dos Tacos is doing 10 points a dollar. And you might, if you really don't care where you go out to eat, that could be incentive to eat at that specific restaurant. I, though, like you, just appreciate the random surprise because I don't want to spend a ton of time thinking about where I'm going to eat and optimizing it based on what has the most points. So I do appreciate the set it and forget kind of option.

17:51Meghan Coyle:I appreciate that they also have worked to add some local restaurants to some of these dining programs. It's mostly local restaurants, actually. That I like because I like supporting local businesses. And sometimes that feels harder to do with the online shopping portals.

18:06Sally French:Yes.

18:06Meghan Coyle:There's also another incentive to sign up for these, which is that there is a sign-up bonus for dining programs oftentimes. And it is usually kind of small, like maybe, for example, spend$30 at a restaurant within the first 30 days of signing up, and then you'll earn an extra 1000 miles just for doing that. That is something I did when I first joined the American Airlines dining program, and I got those bonus miles. And then sometimes there are tasks that can get you extra miles per dollar, and they don't require a ton more work. But again, there is a cost for it being annoying. For example, for the American one, there is a way to earn extra miles per dollar on dining if you sign up for their marketing emails.

18:49Meghan Coyle:And of course, I just like ignore them.

18:53Sally French:Your girl doesn't want to pop up. I definitely don't want a marketing email.

18:55Meghan Coyle:But extra two miles per dollar, Sally. So, you know, if you're okay with it, just filter it to go right to trash. Right to the spam. Yeah.

19:03Sally French:So Megan, do you want to know why I chose American Airlines as my dining program of choice? Yeah, I thought that was odd because you're a United flyer. I know. I rarely fly American. I used to fly American quite a lot when I went to college in Missouri because they served a lot of routes out there, but they don't serve a ton of routes in San Francisco. I rarely fly American, but I do have American Miles to my name. Did you know American Airlines miles expire after 24 months of account inactivity? And I've definitely gone two years without taking American Airlines flight. But the reason why I sync it to my dining account is because I go to Uno Dos Tacos once a year and I get my like 12 points from my taco from happy hour and that keeps my account active.

19:48Sally French:So if you have airline miles from a program that you don't fly that airline every two years, this is actually a smart way to make sure that your miles don't expire.

19:57Meghan Coyle:Great way to keep your miles active because then you don't have to like buy a flight or, you know, do something way more drastic. Again, set and forget it, which is what we love to do.

20:09Sally French:Okay, that was airlines. Let's talk hotels. There are two distinct things here. One is hotel booking portals like Gondola. And then I do want to sort of acknowledge the hotel shopping portals. We can earn miles when you click through to book a hotel stay. Let's talk about Gondola. I know a lot of readers have written in to ask us about this. I know you love Gondola, Megan, so please tell us more.

20:31Meghan Coyle:So Gondola is a free hotel booking and award search tool. The thing that makes it special is you can say, hey, I am going to San Francisco for a weekend in August. And when you look at the dates, when you run that search, it's going to show you all these different hotels you could book, right? And not only does it show you the cash price, it'll also show you the points price. and across all these different brands. You know how usually you have to go to Marriott and look up San Francisco hotels. Then you go to Hilton, look up San Francisco hotels. This really makes it very simple because you can do all of that in one step.

21:10Meghan Coyle:And the cool thing about this is that let's say you book a stay with cash. You know, you go, actually, I can't afford any of these on point. So I'm just going to book on cash through Gondola. The great thing is that Gondola actually facilitates a direct booking, which not a lot of travel booking portals do. And so that means you get to earn hotel points. Let's say you did end up booking a Marriott, you can earn Marriott points on that stay. You can also earn your elite night credits for that Marriott stay. And let's say you have Marriott elite status, you can earn your status perks. That's something that you don't often get unless you're booking direct.

21:49Meghan Coyle:But the reason that you might want to book through a hotel booking portal like this is that Gondola stacks your rewards. So you actually earn another type of currency. Theirs is called Gondola Cash. It's their own rewards currency. And you can use that cash towards a future hotel booking.

22:06Sally French:I feel like the usual way that people book hotels is they compare either through Google Hotels or something like Expedia. And then they can rather than going to Marriott site and Hyatt site and Hilton site, I always just kind of compare based on I use Google hotels, but you're telling me I should use Gondola instead to compare. Because I do like that they show the points prices as well. And I do not believe that Expedia or Google Hotels can do that.

22:29Meghan Coyle:That's right. And that is what I'm talking about when I'm saying some people go to all these different sites. If you have transferable points like from Chase or Amex and you know you could possibly transfer your points to different hotel programs, you might want to look across a bunch of different hotel programs to see if you should book on points. And I feel like Gondola makes it very simple to do that.

22:49Sally French:Okay, I'm going to search for hotels through Gondola next time. I'm so glad you told me because I never do that.

22:53Meghan Coyle:Okay, and then one last one I want to mention. There are some airline branded hotel portals that let you earn extra miles on hotel stays that you pay for in cash. One that I use, I know I keep talking about American, but it's just the one I'm most familiar with. They have one called A Advantage Hotels. And again, this one lets you earn both A, advantage miles and loyalty points towards elite status on your hotel stays. And Sally, you might remember that trip I took in the end of February. And I went to Vegas on a whim. I literally went to Vegas the next day. And I did that because I was doing a mileage run.

23:31Meghan Coyle:And I actually didn't earn a ton of miles from flying to Vegas because it was a sort of cheap flight. Yeah, it's not that far. But I booked a hotel through a advantage hotels. And that got me almost 10 ,000 loyalty points from a weekend in Vegas. And that was just the amount that I needed to be able to get the next level of elite status. So I seriously recommend if you are pursuing elite status, especially with American to look at some of these hotel platforms, because it might just be one stay or two stays that you're going to take anyway.

24:05Sally French:I was so impressed that you got elite status that way. I'm telling you, I'm trying to get my airline elite status and you really are inspiring me.

24:11Meghan Coyle:You can do it, Sally. I believe.

24:13Sally French:Okay. Last one we should talk about. This one's interesting is Capital One Shopping. And you don't actually have to have a Capital One card or be any sort of Capital One customer to participate in Capital One Shopping.

24:24Meghan Coyle:We love these ones that don't have a ton of requirements for signing up. Capital One Shopping is totally free. And like you said, you don't need a Capital One credit card to use it. So again, this one is a browser extension with the pop ups. When you go to a retailer, you'll see that it automatically finds coupons to help you maybe save a little bit of money on your purchase. And then it'll also give you cash back at some of these retailers. The thing to know here is that Capital One shopping rewards are not paid out as points like Capital One miles or something like that. It's actually paid out as gift cards.

25:02Meghan Coyle:So it's not actual cash either. You are earning a currency that can only be spent at specific retailers, but you get to choose where you get the gift card to. So we did say on a

25:13Sally French:recent episode, I hate gift cards. And then as you've gathered over this past show, I hate pop up browser extensions. I actually did download Capital One Shopping for a hot second and then immediately deactivated it because I'm sorry, I thought it was too annoying and not worth it.

25:26Meghan Coyle:I hear you. If you are the kind of person that doesn't mind the gift cards, this can actually be super, super valuable. We actually had a writer talk about his experience where he was able to get 30 % back in the form of gift card rewards on a hotel stay and then could get a gift card towards a hotel. So he had this whole system where he was using Capital One Shopping to save on travel and was actually pretty incredible. So we'll link to that story in the episode description.

25:54Sally French:Okay, I got to do better. I got to try harder. Coming up next, we are going to talk about the new kid on the block. This is the program that everybody is talking about, Rove Miles. We will be discussing that after this.

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27:49Sally French:And we're back discussing Rove Miles. This is a standalone loyalty program. It is not tied to any bank nor any credit card. It does have transferable points. Megan, tell me how you earn these things and what you do with them.

28:02Meghan Coyle:Okay, so Rove Miles actually has a travel portal similar to what we talked about with Gondola, where you can book flights and hotels through Rove. It also has a shopping portal, like all the shopping portals we've been talking about, where it has a browser extension or you could go through their website and you visit a store, it activates, and then you earn rove miles on your online shopping purchases. So it's kind of combining all the things we've been talking about.

28:29Sally French:Now you can transfer these to a bunch of different airline and hotel loyalty programs. Most of them are at a one-to-one ratio. Of course, some exceptions. The partner list is interesting because it includes programs that are not typical transfer partners of the big bank currencies. I'm looking at you, Finnair.

28:44Meghan Coyle:Yeah, and some that people might not have access to if they don't have a very certain type of point. I'm thinking about Japan Airlines. They had a huge transfer bonus for those. Oh, I should mention that, that RoveMiles also has transfer bonuses, just like some of the credit card programs that we know. So this is a great way to earn transferable points. And the reason these are so valuable is because it applies to a bunch of different brands that you could transfer to. So for example, if you're trying to book a flight and you cannot find a flight for less than 50 ,000 miles on one program, then if you have transferable points, you just transfer your points to another program that might offer a better rewards rate.

29:27Meghan Coyle:So that's why we love collecting transferable points. And I think Rove is particularly valuable because it can really add on to your credit card strategy. so maybe you have Amex points and you just barely don't have enough to transfer to Virgin for example then you could use the miles from Rove and also transfer those to Virgin and now together you have enough points for the flight you were trying to book.

29:56Sally French:Okay so my top concern is we have been talking about all of these different programs I really don't want to install 12 browser extensions and I kind of feel like I have to. I don't do a lot of online shopping, but when I do, I want to know where I can get the most points. So, you know, every once in a while, I'm shopping on thedisneystore.com. I'm buying my latest Duffy Bear plush. I want to know, can I get bonus points on my Disney store purchase? It might not pop up as my one singular Rakuten plugin, but I want to still get points from somewhere. Somehow I'll take any points I can get. It sounds like there is a solution for me, Tell me what that is.

30:34Meghan Coyle:Yeah, you might want to try Cashback Monitor. It is a free aggregator that tracks the earning rates of a bunch of different shopping portals. So you can type in the store you want right on the Cashback Monitor website, and it'll literally show you side by side. The American shopping portal will give you this many miles per dollar. The United one will give you this many miles per dollar. And you can see it all side by side and choose the one that's going to offer you the best rate. Of course, you have to sign up for all of these programs. So that's kind of like a prerequisite if you're going to choose between them.

31:10Meghan Coyle:But I think this tool is super helpful and it's a very quick check. So honestly, my shopping experience is mostly just looking at all the pop ups that come up and choosing the one that has the highest rate. I don't want pop ups. I want Cashback Monitor. There you go. This one will work for you then.

31:26Sally French:So I've heard about Cashback Monitor and this is literally my first time going to their site. It looks kind of like Craigslist. It looks like it was designed in the 90s. Built in the 90s, yeah. Yeah, I'm intrigued, but I like it simple. So I just typed in Disney Store. That's where I'm doing my shopping. And they're saying I can get as much as 3 % back at Disney Store. So most of the big airline programs are one mile per dollar spent at the Disney Store. So United, American, Delta, these guys are all giving me one mile. But then they're presenting me all these other programs we haven't even talked about.

31:57Sally French:Rebates me will give me 3 % back. Have you ever heard of rebates me? Nope. There are a ton of shopping portals out there. Rakuten is giving me two points per dollar at the Disney store, which is better than the airlines ones.

32:09Meghan Coyle:Okay, there you go.

32:10Sally French:All right. We're looking for 10 points per dollar, Sally.

32:13Meghan Coyle:So 10 points is not good. Don't get too excited. There is something really cool on Cashback Monitor, though. It is a best rate history chart for every store. So they can actually show you if there have been higher than usual cashback offers at the store you're looking at. So I really like that for my travel purchases that are really big. I'm like, okay, I could wait because I know that one does go up to 10 points per dollar occasionally.

32:40Sally French:Interesting. I'm seeing Target right now is 10 % back. Do you think it works if I do online Target and then in-store pickup?

32:47Meghan Coyle:Oh yeah, I think it would totally work. Okay, all right, I'll try. You just have to check out online and make sure it's activated. I think we should say this like in bright neon flashing lights is, you know, we've talked about this browser extension and it pops up when you visit a retailer's website and there's a button that says activate and it will not give you cash back or rewards of any kind unless you hit that activate button. And also you cannot activate it on multiple shopping portals at the same time. So you do have to pick one. You can't activate Americans and Rakuten's and Capital One Shopping all at the same time.

33:26Meghan Coyle:you got to pick one. I'm telling you, once you get into this, you realize there are certain purchases that just get you so many points. Like I wasn't kidding about switching your cell phone company.

33:35Sally French:Wow. Yeah, I have heard of people do this where they just buy stuff they don't need because the points are worth more than the stuff.

33:41Meghan Coyle:Yeah, I've also heard about people buying gift cards to certain places. It doesn't always work. Definitely familiarize yourself with the shopping portals and what types of purchases are eligible because sometimes gift cards are not included. But I've heard about people buying things through some of these shopping portals and getting this super high rewards rate and then being able to use that in other ways. For example, using the gift card that they bought at Staples to buy, you know, the office supplies they need at another time, but they already locked in that huge rewards rate.

34:16Sally French:Okay, good to know. Cashback Monitor. Wow, I've never heard of this. This is amazing. I'm so excited we're talking about this. They do not sponsor our show. I'm glad you told me about this.

34:23Meghan Coyle:I'm happy to. Okay, Sally, before we go, are you earning points and miles on things like your ride shares? Oh, yes, I do that.

34:32Sally French:There are many companies that partner with the airline and hotel programs where you can earn bonus points. I am talking about Uber, Lyft, Starbucks, some big brands, and this is completely outside of shopping portals. The way this works is if you have a loyalty program account or just generally an account with these companies. You obviously have an Uber account to call an Uber. You can do an extra thing where you just link your Delta SkyMiles account and you can earn miles for your Uber rides and your Uber Eats orders. This is a really seamless way to just, again, rack up a few more miles. It's not going to be anything huge, but really good opportunity to get some more miles.

35:12Sally French:Also to keep that account activity engaged. As I said, I'm not flying American every two years. But if I can link my American account to something like this and get those extra miles when I'm spending money anyway, that's a really, really good way to do this. Some of my favorites are Starbucks and Delta. So you link your SkyMiles and your Starbucks Rewards accounts. You earn miles when you reload your Starbucks gift cards with$25 or more. This is a way to earn some bonus miles. Nothing huge. But if you're buying coffee anyway, you might as well.

35:40Meghan Coyle:Well, Sally, you know, I love my airport chai latte from Starbucks. So you know I'm doing this one. And like you said, this one doesn't earn you a ton of miles with Delta. But again, a way to keep your account active. And also, it kind of goes both ways. You also get double stars on your Starbucks purchases. So Starbucks has its own rewards program. So I'm also racking up more stars for my free drink eventually. That is the reciprocal rewards part of these partnerships is also really, really nice.

36:14Sally French:And what I like about this, there is no pop-up involved, no shopping portals involved. It takes five seconds to link your accounts. So while you're listening to this podcast, just go into your Starbucks app, add your Delta SkyMiles account, vice versa. Other ones I like is Lyft. They have partnerships with United, Build, Hilton, Atmos Rewards. Delta also has a partnership with Airbnb. So go in and link your accounts. If any of these brands or companies that you use, just link it. It's a one and done and get those extra miles.

36:42Meghan Coyle:And it's important to note that Lyft does not let you link multiple loyalty programs. So you do have to choose between United, Built, Hilton or Atmos Rewards. And you can also email us at travel at nerdwallet.com and tell us which one you think is the most valuable to link to, because I honestly had a hard time choosing between all of these. I went with Atmos Rewards because I have a Atmos Rewards credit card. So I'm trying to add a little bit more on that front. but yeah, let me know which one. What would you choose, Sally? Or what do you use for Lyft?

37:16Sally French:My Lyft is linked to my Hilton only because I set it up so long ago. I do think Built would be a better return, but I haven't gotten the time in my life. Maybe I'll do that after we stop recording to switch it to Built.

37:27Meghan Coyle:This is a good reminder because these partnerships actually change not super frequently, but regularly enough. Like even that Starbucks and Delta partnership we were talking about, the earning rates changed a little bit in the past couple of years. So it is kind of good to maybe yearly look at all of these links to loyalty programs again, and just make sure that you are linking the one that's the most valuable to you.

37:51Sally French:So Megan, I want to know, how many points and miles do you think you've gotten collectively in your lifetime off of all this online shopping and dining and all of this?

37:59Meghan Coyle:So I'm not even the biggest online shopping portal user, and I think I've gotten 100 ,000 extra points and miles from it. Wow, that's so good. And like I said, it's mostly just seeing the pop-up come out. I'm really not strategizing to do it on the biggest payout days. Like the 17 points per dollar on the buy-it-or purchase was a happenstance. I was just like, oh, I need to book this for my mom and I. And then I went and I was like, 17 points per dollar. I'm checking out right now.

38:30Sally French:So tell me, how many browser extensions do you have installed? I have four, I think. Four. And how does your brain handle this? Like if you're doing research for something else and then all these pop ups happen, what do you do?

38:42Meghan Coyle:They don't bother me anymore. You know how you just almost don't see online ads as you're scrolling through articles anymore because you're just so used to seeing them. I almost can turn off a part of my brain when I'm not trying to actually check out and buy something or I just like XXX really quick. but honestly, I don't do a ton of online shopping, like I said, and it's only very specific and usually big retailers. And so I'm not often shopping at those. I am looking for local businesses. I'm looking for more niche products, that kind of thing. So it honestly doesn't bother me as much as you might think.

39:21Sally French:We should tell listeners, when my mom passed away, you very kindly sent me a bouquet of flowers. And then the first thing I texted you back was, did you buy these from a shopping portal because I always feel like 1-800-Flowers is like the number one shopping portal option. 1-800-Flowers, their flowers are so expensive, but then never like you do pay full price for the flowers, but I see they always have 20 % back offers.

39:43Meghan Coyle:Oh yeah. Again, flowers is one of those categories. Like if you were ever buying flowers to ship to someone, check in all of these portals, see what the flower companies are offering in terms of bonus points. I don't know if you remember Sally, but I did buy you flowers. And I did get it from 1-800 flowers. And not only did I use a shopping portal, I also used an offer. I think it was an Amex offer on my Amex Platinum. And those are the offers that are usually targeted and they show up in your credit card app and you have to add them to your card. And it'll be like, you get$10 off of $50 purchase at this retailer or whatever it is.

40:22Meghan Coyle:So I stacked my rewards when I was buying. Honestly, I made money from buying you flowers.

40:27Sally French:Good, because flowers are so expensive. I'm just going to say it, hot take. If you are buying flowers online and you are not using one of these programs, you are subsidizing other people who are getting these points. So do make sure you for sure with flowers, more than anything, check your cashback monitor, check your offers, because you probably have a really good deal there.

40:46Meghan Coyle:Wait, Sally, is that your hot takeoff for today? That's my hot takeoff. I love it. I love it. Okay, wait, just a quick recap before we close, because I know we just gave people a lot of information. My number one tip, if you collect Amex or Bilt points, you need to, need to, need to sign up for Rakuten and set it to earn one of those points because it can really augment the points that you are earning also on your credit cards or through the Bilt loyalty program.

41:13Sally French:Then you can always use your airline's own shopping portal, especially, Megan, if you are an AA flyer.

41:19Meghan Coyle:That's right. It'll earn you loyalty points. And also make sure to download the browser extension or app to make it a habit every time you're online shopping. The more you do it, the more familiar you will get with typical rewards rates and the types of purchases that will probably get you the most points.

41:35Sally French:And if you, like me, don't want that browser extension, maybe bookmark Cashback Monitor.

41:40Meghan Coyle:By the way, if you want to figure out how to earn extra points or miles, make sure to follow us, Smart Travel, on your favorite podcast app. We talk about this all the time. Our podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and iHeart Radio. And if you follow us, you will automatically download new episodes. If you're listening on Spotify, drop us a comment right in the app. Let us know if you use any of these shopping portals.

42:02Sally French:And if you like the show, if you want more of the show, if you found Megan's advice on all of these shopping portals to be life-changing, then please give us a comment on the show in Apple Podcasts because we want to hear from you and we want those five-star reviews as well because that enables us to keep the show going.

42:19Meghan Coyle:This episode was produced by Tess Viglin and edited by Nick Karismi. Claire Soce and Hilary Georgie helped with fact-checking.

42:25Sally French:And our disclaimer, we are not financial or investment advisors. This info is provided for general educational and entertainment purposes. It may not apply to your specific circumstances.

42:33Meghan Coyle:We hope you're inspired to keep your passport full and your wallet even fuller. We'll see you next time.

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