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The standard welcome offer on the Chase Ink Business Preferred card has just been increased from 80,000 to 100,000 Ultimate Rewards, although it’s come with an increased spend requirement as you’ll now have to spend $15,000 in three months in order to receive the bonus.
The Offer & Key Card Details
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| Card Offer and Details |
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90K points ⓘ Affiliate 90K after $8K spend in 3 months$95 Annual Fee Alternate Offer: There is an in-branch offer of 120K points after $8K in purchases in the first 3 months. Recent better offer: 120K after $8K spend (expired 9/4/24) FM Mini Review: Great card for welcome bonus and 3X categories. Also consider theInk Business Cash for its 5X categories, and the Ink Business Unlimited to earn 1.5X everywhere. Earning rate: 3X travel, shipping, internet, cable, phone, and advertising with social media sites (up to $150K spend per year) ✦ 5X Lyft through March 2025 Card Info: Visa Signature Business issued by Chase. This card has no foreign currency conversion fees. Noteworthy perks: ✦ Points worth 25% more when redeemed for travel ✦ Transfer points to airline & hotel partners ✦ Cell phone protection against theft or damage See also: Chase Ultimate Rewards Complete Guide |
Quick Thoughts
Any opportunity to earn 100,000 Ultimate Rewards is a welcome sight, although the increased spend requirement will be harder for some people to reach. The old welcome offer was 80,000 Ultimate Rewards on only $5,000 of spend, so this new offer gives you an extra 20,000 points but requires an extra $10,000 in spend.
In theory that means your final $10,000 of spend is earning an extra 2x which is still pretty good, especially if it’s being spent in any of the 3x categories:
- Travel
- Shipping purchases
- Internet, cable and phone services
- Advertising purchases with social media sites and search engines
Having said that, Doctor of Credit notes that the old welcome offer of 80,000 Ultimate Rewards on $5,000 of spend is still available via referral link, with the person giving the referral earning 20,000 Ultimate Rewards if the application is approved. If you’re being referred by someone else in your household, you’d be earning a combined amount of 100,000 Ultimate Rewards without having to spend an extra $10,000.
Seeing as this 100k/$15k welcome offer is the new standard offer, it’s not clear how long referral links for the old offer will be available. If you’re interested in the lower spend requirement of the old offer, it might be best to get a referral link now in case that changes in the coming days.
However, if you wouldn’t have any problem knocking out $15,000 of spend in three months and have someone in your household that already has an Ink card, it might be better to wait to see if the referral offer changes in the coming days or weeks. If the referral offer changes to this 100k/$15k offer, you could earn 100,000 Ultimate Rewards while your family member could pick up 20,000 Ultimate Rewards for referring you.
Note that although this card is subject to Chase’s 5/24 rule in terms of obtaining it, you won’t be adding to your 5/24 count if you’re approved for it due to the Chase Ink Business Preferred card being a business card rather than a personal card.
| Chase 5/24 semantics ("Subject to" vs. "Count towards"): Most Chase cards are subject to the 5/24 rule. That means the rule is enforced in making approval decisions. In other words, you probably won't get approved if your credit report shows that you opened 5 or more cards in the past 24 months. Meanwhile, most business cards (such as those from Chase, Amex, Barclaycard, BOA, Citi, US Bank, and Wells Fargo) are not reported on your personal credit report. These cards do not count towards 5/24. Example: Chase Ink Business Preferred is subject to 5/24, so you likely won't get approved if over 5/24. If you do get approved, it won't count towards 5/24 since it won't appear as an account on your credit report. |
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Hi Stephen, do you know if chase is extending the time period to meet minimum spending for Business Ink cards? I plan on applying for one before 4/22 (when the referral link I have from the email says it expires. however the link generated when you create the referral links, shows no expiry date and still works). the link I have is for the old offer –80k points/$5k spend in 3 mos. I’d like to see that increase to $5k spend in 6 mos since my daily expenditures has dropped a lot with the shelter in place
As far as I’m aware, they haven’t announced any policy covering applications during April. They’ve extended the minimum spend period for everyone that applied from January 1 to March 31, but it’ll likely be a little while before they decide to extend it for people who applied in April for a couple of reasons.
First, people that applied this month would have a better idea of their upcoming spending habits than people who applied before all the shutdowns. Second, there’s no knowing how long this will go on for, so if things reopened next month, they might not be willing to extend.
In reality, I don’t expect things to get back to normal any time soon even non-essential stores do reopen in the next few weeks. I therefore suspect that Chase will eventually extend the length of time you’d get to meet the minimum spend requirement for cards applied for in April, but I don’t have any certainty about that.
[…] is the exception as the referral offer requires much less spend to meet the bonus ($5K rather than $15K required for the new 100K bonus). One possible reason Chase may be pulling those referral links is that people playing in 2-player […]
I do not see language in the terms where if one had this card in the past (example: having the card or closing it in the past 24 months). So it appears one can get this card again even if they just closed it? I closed this card in Jan. 2020, so trying to figure out if I can get it again? Even under a different business name if I need to. Thanks.
Chase Ink cards don’t have the 24 month restriction (I checked with Nick who confirmed this). You can therefore get approved for another bonus, even if you hadn’t closed the old card.
Here’s a data point of someone else being successful in a similar circumstance https://frequentmiler.com/newbies-second-dance/
Thanks!
Any idea how long the referral links are valid for? I currently have the ink card and was going to refer my spouse this summer ~2 years after she last applied for it. If I send my referral link now, will it still be valid in 3-4 months?
If I send the referral link this summer, will it be for the terms I received (80k points/$5k spend) or the new terms (100k points/15k spend)
I think referral links usually have an expiry date, but I’m not sure what they are for this particular offer. If you generate a referral link now, does it mention in the email when they need to apply by?
No expiry date on the link. I actually Save the link that I had from my card from last summer and tested it and it seems to work. I didn’t of course click through the link so not sure if it would actually go through but the link actually worked
My wife just got, 1 mos. ago, the Ink Bus. Cash. Any thoughts if she could get this card?
In theory she can. It’s best to be careful how frequently you apply for Chase cards, but if that’s the only one she’s applied for recently then she should be OK.
Collecting transferable points that can also be cashed out or redeemed at 1.25~1.5cpp toward travel use is a safe place to earn points for the interim -while COVID19 shales out.