Keeping an eye on the best credit card offers
For a limited time, the Southwest Rapid Rewards Premier Business Card is offering 60,000 points when you spend $3,000 on purchases in your first 3 months of cardmembership. This is the most lucrative promo ever offered by the card.
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Chase is upping the ante in the small business credit card market. It just announced that a brand new card, the Chase Ink Business Preferred, will debut later this year. The card will have a 80,000 point signup bonus, which will require new cardmembers to spend $5,000 in their first 3 months.
The card will also earn 3 points per dollar for the first $150,000 spent on travel, telecommunications, shipping and advertising on social media and search engines. Purchases beyond that limit or in other categories will earn 1 point per dollar.
The card will have a $95 annual fee, waived the first year if the account is opened at a branch.
For a limited time, eligible existing SPG Business Amex cardmembers can earn up to 10,000 bonus Starpoints. If you are eligible for this promotion, once you register your card, you’ll earn 5,000 Starpoints after spending $5,000 in qualifying purchases. You’ll earn another 5,000 Starpoints after you spend an additional $5,000 on qualifying purchases, for a maximum of 10,000 bonus Starpoints.
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Back in January, American Express launched the new SimplyCash Plus Business credit card, but only made it available to select small business owners. Now, it has made the card available to the general public.
What’s special about this card? There are a couple of things that stand out. First, while you are given a credit limit on the card, it also almost acts like a charge card, in that you are given the ability to spend beyond your credit limit in order to help pay for larger purchases, while still earning cash back. Second, it offers a good deal of flexibility in cash back category choices. The card earns 5% cash back at office supply stores and wireless telephone services, 3% cash back in one of a list of eight categories and 1% cash back on other purchases. The 5% and 3% categories apply to the first $50,000 in purchases per year. What’s also nice is that there is no annual fee and a signup bonus worth up to $500.
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For a limited time, through March 30, 2016, you can earn 35,000 bonus Starpoints when you apply for a new Starwood Preferred Guest credit card from American Express and spend at least $3,000 in your first 3 months of cardmembership. You can also earn the same 35,000 Starpoint bonus by applying for the Business version of the card and spending $5,000 in your first 3 months. 35,000 Starpoints is the highest signup bonus ever offered for the card.
As a point of comparison, 30,000 bonus Starpoints had previously been the high-water mark for SPG Amex bonus, typically offered just once per year, while 25,000 Starpoints is the standard offer.
Does your small business do a lot of international business? If so, Wells Fargo’s business credit cards just became a lot more attractive to you.
Wells Fargo recently announced that effective October 1, it has removed its foreign transaction fees on all business credit card and business line of credit access card transactions made outside the US. Previously, Wells Fargo had charged a foreign currency conversion fee of between 2-3% on transactions that originated in a foreign currency.
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For a limited time, Chase has bumped up its signup bonuses for both the Ink Plus Business Card and the Ink Cash Business Card. The Ink Plus Business Card now offers $300 bonus cash back when you spend $3,000 on purchases in the first 3 months of opening your account, up from the $200 bonus normally offered, while the Ink Plus Business Card now offers 60,000 bonus points after you spend $5,000 in purchases in your first 3 months, up from the 50,000 points normally offered.
While the Ink Cash card does not have an annual fee, the Ink Plus card has a $95 annual fee, which is not waived under this promotion.
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Capital One recently made a few lucrative signup bonus offers that were previously only available through targeted promos now open to the general public. When you sign up for a new Spark Cash for Business from Capital One and spend $4,500 within the first 3 months, you’ll earn a one-time $500 cash bonus. Alternatively, you can sign up for a new Spark Miles for Business from Capital One and spend $4,500 within the first 3 months to receive a one-time bonus of 50,000 miles. Capital One miles can essentially be thought of as credit towards travel purchases, so your 50,000 miles are worth $500 towards travel.
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In what has become an annual tradition, Chase has raised the signup bonuses on its Chase Ink Business cards during National Small Business Week. The Chase Ink Plus Business Card now has a signup bonus of 60,000 points after you spend $5,000 on purchases in the first 3 months of opening your account, compared to the 50,000 bonus points normally offered. 60,000 points is enough to redeem for $750 in credit towards travel through the Chase Ultimate Rewards portal. The Chase Ink Cash card is also offering an increased bonus of $300 cash back after you spend $3,000 in your first 3 months of opening your account, compared to the $250 cash back signup bonus that is normally offered. Both of these offers are due to expire on May 25, 2015.
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Through October 10, 2014, when you apply for a new Chase Ink Plus business credit card and spend $5,000 in the first 3 months after opening your account, you’ll earn 70,000 bonus points, redeemable for $875 in travel rewards through the Ultimate Rewards portal. That’s up from the normal 50,000 bonus points that are offered for the card. The 50,000 bonus point offer, however, waives the first year’s annual fee of $95, while this 70,000 point bonus does not. Previously, this offer was only available when you visited a Chase branch in-person, but now it’s available online.
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