My travel buddy, Francisco V., clued me in on this new promotion between Starbucks and Chase. This promo could earn you Starbucks bonus stars, and additional Chase Ultimate Rewards.
What’s the deal
- Check your Starbucks phone app
- Reload your Starbucks account with $20 or more (up to 3x)
- Collect up to 475 bonus stars (enough to get you free drinks and food – Gold Level)
- First reload – collect 125Â bonus stars
- Second reload – collect 275Â bonus stars
- Third reload – collect 475 bonus stars
- Offer ends 12/12/2018
Image courtesy of Starbucks App
How do you earn more Ultimate rewards
Remember that when you use Chase Pay with your Chase Freedom in the 4th Quarter, you get 5% cash back. Here’s the article I wrote a few weeks ago. There’s still time to sign up.
*EDITED* – one of our readers, Vet&Banker, suggested Be sure that Chase Pay is being used to reload. He chose Chase Pay as the method of payment, and even after making that choice, it reverted by to another method of payment.
Free drinks. More Ultimate Reward points. Why not? So before you reload, make sure you use your Chase Pay. Good luck.
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Be sure that Chase Pay is being used to reload. I had other options as primary and even though I changed the payment method to Chase Pay on my LG Android phone, when the payment verification screen popped up, the payment method would revert to the original choice. Finally made it work, but you can avoid extra reloads if you catch this early.
Thank you for that tip. I’ll update my post so others will learn to make sure to use Chase Pay.
Thanks for posting about this as I never look at my messages in my Starbucks App messages. I just did this refill 3 times today for the 3 free items. I always use it on food items that are around $8 @ so refilling $20 to get a free $8 is great value.
Nice! Glad it worked for you!
Targeted. I’m guessing that since I have been using Chase Pay, no prize for me. Chase pay offers says “nothing to see here” [sorta cute] and there is nothing in the Starbucks app. Congrats if you get to double up with Freedom card and this offer..
I think you’re right. It wasn’t visible when my wife tried to add it on her Starbucks app account.
Actually the promo is found in the Starbucks app and not the Chase Pay app. I checked out the Chase Pay app first and found nothing. Then I opened my Starbucks app and surprise… the promo was there. Thanks for the head’s up for this promo. Definitely going to use it… 3x to take advantage of the 5% Chase Pay rebate for this quarter and for the maximum number of stars.
Awesome!Glad it worked out on your end.