I love AwardWallet, but not for the reason you think

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Background: AwardWallet is a free service for keeping track of frequent flyer miles, hotel points, bank points, and more. It offers both a web site and mobile app for accessing your information. AwardWallet lets you manage both your own and your family member’s accounts. For most accounts, it will automatically update your award balances without any extra work from you.

I realized a contradiction the other day. I think of AwardWallet as a tool for keeping track of hotel and airline point balances, but that’s not really what I use it for.  The ability to check current mileage balances doesn’t even make my top 5 list.  Here are the top things I rely on AwardWallet to do:AwardWallet AA

  1. Launch sites and automatically log in: I rarely navigate directly to an airline or hotel’s website to book awards or check on reservations.  Instead, I start with Award Wallet, and click the name of the program.  This causes AwardWallet to launch the website and automatically log me in.  Since AwardWallet keeps information for my entire family, this makes it easy to log into my own, my wife’s, or my son’s accounts, as needed.
  2. Warn me when certificates are about to expire: This is huge. Free night certificates or companion certificates earned from credit cards or promotions usually expire a year from when they were issued.  AwardWallet displays the certificates and indicates the number of months until expiry.  More importantly, AwardWallet proactively emails a warning letting you know if a certificate will soon expire.  Even though this feature is similar to the next one, I find it more important: most points (but not all) stay alive as long as you have activity in your account.  Certificates generally have a hard expiration date.  And I rely on AwardWallet to let me know if I’m in danger of losing them.
  3. Point and Mile Expiration Warnings: Recently AwardWallet emailed to let me know that my son’s AA miles would soon expire.  Good to know!  I logged into the AAdvantage eShopping portal, clicked through to Kmart, and bought something that doesn’t suck with my Shop Your Way Rewards points (which were also about to expire according to AwardWallet!).  Soon enough, the miles posted to my son’s account and reset the expiry clock for another 18 months.
  4. Lookup member number, ID, and password: If I need to know my (or a family member’s) loyalty account number, I open AwardWallet and check.  This comes up often when enrolling in promotions.  Less often, I may need to know a log-in ID and/or password.  I use AwardWallet to look those up too.
  5. Let me know when points and miles increase or decrease: Every week, AwardWallet sends an email showing every program in which point balances have increased or decreased.  This comes in handy when the change is not as expected, or to inform me that points from an old promotion have finally rolled in.

The fact that you can log into AwardWallet and see your current balances is cool, but as you can see above, it’s not the main reason I use the app!

Get AwardWallet

If you don’t already have an AwardWallet account, please consider signing up with my link. For every 5 people who sign up, I’ll earn another upgrade coupon. That way I’ll earn additional upgrades to give away. Disclosure: I don’t earn any money from the referral, but if people I refer pay for upgrades to AwardWallet Plus, I’ll earn points that can be redeemed for airline miles. Hopefully you won’t have to pay, though, since you can use one of the upgrade codes here!

AwardWallet Plus

AwardWallet Plus is a paid upgrade to AwardWallet (unless you get free codes like those below). It offers the following features:

AwardWallet Plus

How to apply upgrade

  1. Make sure you have an active AwardWallet account. Click here to signup for free.
  2. Refresh this page to make sure that the latest codes are available.
  3. Try the top upgrade link. If it doesn’t work, try the next one down in the list, etc.
  4. If none work, let me know via the comments.  I will periodically update the codes throughout the day.

Upgrade codes

Sorry!  All upgrade codes have been used.

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KB

Does anyone have a free upgrade code available by chance?

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Brogdon C

Greg, my fiancee and I both signed up (terribly sorry, I forgot to use your link!) and AwardWallet gave us ten upgrade coupons each. Of course, we used one of each other’s, but is there a way to message you directly with the codes or would it be best to post here to help out? The same code will work 9 times, as far as I can tell.

Thanks for what you do! Love the site.

Nikki O

That’s so cool of you!

Anwar

Whatever happened to the cool AwardWallet Logo Generator which would have your total miles to post on Social Media – did AwardWallet take it away?

Bob Zobel

are you still updating the upgrade codes for the AwardWallet? If so, the current list is completely full.

Mitch

More Codes please Greg 🙂

goodMXguy

I will subscribe just in case Greg can post more codes 🙂

Uri

For me the trip management features, check in reminders etc, are extremely important.

Nikki O

Thanks for looking into this Greg!

Nikki O

Any chance of adding more codes?

Andre Oliveira

Hi Greg, all codes were already used. Could you post more codes please? Thanks!!!!

K. R.

What’s supposed to happen? When I click on it e code it opens my app but that’s it. Does that mean the code is used? I went through all of them.

K. R.

Thanks. I wasn’t getting that on my phone. When I tried on my computer I got that, but all the codes were used. Can you share some new codes please? Thank you soooooo much!!!!!!

Tom

All used from what I can tell

F

Thanks. Just used VTZOP.

Joy Smith

Thanks Greg! Feels like I got a present today!

kranzman

Great got one . thx! I see they don’t have BUDGET Rent a Car either. Weird

kranzman

hi. coupons have expired. please send a new one. thx

Joy Smith

Ditto

Tiffany D

All used up again, posting so I can see if I get notified when more are posted this time.

Marilyn B

Finally snagged one. Thanks. Used Invite-56528-VGIGC

kranzman

where are u posting the new codes?

Betty

All codes are used

Dave P

Even the hidden FB codes are gone.

I missed out yet again, but thanks for sharing with the community Greg.

DrSifu

all taken as of 12:27pm EST. input too many codes and they make you wait 5 minutes before you can try again.

Jo

Man, these codes are gone like in seconds. But I signed up through your link.

anthonyjh21

Makes me wonder if something fishy is going on (with people taking the codes). I know there’s always a lot of lurkers but these were gobbled up in seconds like a high demand concert ticket.

Alex

If you like AwardWallet that much why not just to send them a few $ to support them instead of using a free upgrade coupon.

wise2u

Do they still have missing airline programs, or ones that require workarounds like setting up e-mail alerts from delta with your point balance? The main reason I dumped them is they were having problems with permissions from AA, DL, and southwest……I did like the reminder features to keep things from expiring.

B L

I just signed up via your link. All upgrade codes up to Invite-56528-METHO are used. Can you please put out more? Thanks much!

Joe

All upgrades are used 🙁

Daniel

My Awardwallet has hard time logging into Hyatt.
Although I can login fine manually on Hyatt.com, the same ID/password used in AW gives me password problem.

chimmy

Unless I’m missing something, there’s no way to upgrade once you already have an established account, correct? In order to upgrade, you have to do it while signing up? If so, that sucks. I’d like to experience Plus. My account says I have 10 upgrades to give out, however.

chimmy

Thank you for enlightening me. I had no idea.

SDO

When I try to use my upgrade coupon, it says for first time users only. How are you getting past this?

SDO

Nevermind, I was looking in the wrong place, the upgrade coupons are rewarded after 5 referrals.

B

All Codes are used

Jonathan

@Mike, “why believe the security protocol for Award Wallet ensures future safety?”

You’re absolutely right, you can’t.

That said, Award Wallet lets you store your credentials locally (as opposed to on their servers) so you can eliminate most of the risk that way (while sacrificing convenience).

Andrew G

Goddammit! When will I finally get a working Awardwallet code?!?? (sigh)

Karen

I also put in all my shopping log-ins and found out I had a $5 reward from Best Buy I didn’t know I had!

Mike

The convenience potential is impressive, but peeking at data this sensitive is not meant to be convenient. It’s meant to be secure. Given the wave of data breaches that have come to plague electronic storage systems in recent years, why believe the security protocol for Award Wallet ensures future safety? I mean, they don’t even keep their own sign-up codes secure.

Ej

Agreed!!!!

Juno

all gone at 7:58 AM EDT

Cate Hesser

All gone. 🙁

Dustin

They have all been used.

Charlotte

Used 56528-HRQKL. Thanks!

Ben E

Amazeballs, thanks. Invite-56528-JSNKK used