If you’ve never shopped online via their portal, you can earn a United MileagePlus portal welcome bonus of 500 miles or 1,000 miles.
The Deals
- Use MileagePlus Shopping for the first time and earn 500 bonus miles when you spend $25 within two weeks.
- If you’re a United MileagePlus credit cardholder, earn 1,000 bonus miles when spending $25.
Key Terms
Deal 1
- This ”New Member” bonus offer is available only to new members of the MileagePlus Shopping site who complete a “qualifying purchase(s)” within two weeks of signing up for the MileagePlus Shopping program for the first time.
- Please refer to your MileagePlus Shopping Welcome emails for the specific expiration date for this Bonus Offer (i.e., the end date for the Bonus Period).
- During the Bonus Period, Member will receive 500 MileagePlus miles when they make qualifying purchase(s) through MileagePlus Shopping totaling $25 or more.
Deal 2
- MileagePlus Credit Card Members will receive 1,000 MileagePlus miles when they make qualifying purchase(s) through MileagePlus Shopping totaling $25 or more.
- Member must login and make the qualifying purchase(s) through the Site during the Bonus Period.
Terms For Both Deals
- Please allow up to 10 weeks for Bonus Award Miles to post to your MileagePlus Shopping account.
- “Qualifying purchases” do not include product returns or cancellations, gift card purchases, and certain products identified by the individual merchant.
- Individual merchants may have additional terms and conditions on their store details page on the Site, which terms and conditions will apply to this Bonus Offer.
- Each new MileagePlus Shopping mall account is eligible for a maximum of one Bonus Award Miles reward.
Quick Thoughts on the United MileagePlus Portal Welcome Bonus
This offer has been available for new United shopping portal users for several years. It still seems to be going strong, so I wanted to republish it in case you’d missed it in the past and hadn’t used their portal before.
The deal is now even better than it was in the past. In previous years, you had to spend $125 to earn 500 bonus miles or spend $150 as a cardholder to earn the 1,000 bonus miles, but both spending requirements have now been slashed to only $25.
The first deal is straightforward enough – register for the MileagePlus portal for the first time, spend $25 and earn 500 bonus miles – equivalent to 20 bonus miles per dollar spent if spending exactly $25.
For cardholders, it doesn’t look like you have to actually pay with a Chase United card. Instead, simply being a cardholder should be sufficient to earn the additional bonus miles.
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I used to use the MPX app way back when. Is there any way to know whether I qualify for this offer once I’ve logged in and before I purchase anything?
This promotion is for the United shopping portal rather than MPX. When logging in to the portal, if you hover over the person icon it’ll display your lifetime shopping miles. If that shows any number other than zero, you wouldn’t be eligible. If it does show zero, I guess there’s a chance that you’d registered for the portal in the past but not used it, so that would mean you’re not eligible either. That said, you only have to spend $25 to earn the bonus miles, so it could be worth a try as you won’t be missing out on much for a transaction that small versus what could be earned via another portal.
Thanks, Stephen. It does show some “Shopping Miles Earned” for me, so I guess I did use it in the past. I appreciate your detailed response.
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Does the portal sell GCs?
It’s not like the MPX app where they sell gift cards through that. However, you should be able to click through to Raise or GiftCards.com from the portal and buy gift cards from them to trigger the bonus.
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