Apple Card 3% Daily Cash Back Now Available From Two More Apple Partners

[MacRumors]

Apple has partnered with select merchants to offer Apple Card users three percent Daily Cash back on their purchases, and two new companies were added to the partner list today. When purchasing goods and services from Booking.com and ChargePoint, Apple Card users will now get more cash back.

Booking.com is a site for reserving flights, cars, cruises, and hotels, while ChargePoint sells charging equipment for electric vehicles and also offers more than 280,000 charging stations across multiple countries.

Apple Card users can get three percent Daily Cash back from Booking.com on eligible prepaid stays and car rentals when purchasing using Apple Card with Apple Pay, though Apple says that its special Apple Card link needs to be used when booking. Eligible stays include those that are paid for using the "Pay Now" rate.

As for ChargePoint, Apple Card users will get three percent Daily Cash when using Apple Card with Apple Pay to pay for electric vehicle charging at ChargePoint charging stations, as well as home charging purchases through the ChargePoint website.

Apple has several other partners that provide extra Daily Cash as well, including Duane Reade, Mobil, T-Mobile, Uber Eats, Ace Hardware, Nike, Uber, and Walgreens.

Panera Bread has also been one of Apple's partners to offer three percent Daily Cash, but starting on February 1, 2025, Panera Bread Daily Cash back will be limited to two percent.

Article Link: Apple Card 3% Daily Cash Back Now Available From Two More Apple Partners

 

[CrysisDeu]

If it has 3% cash back on everything, i might consider it over us bank altitude reserve’s 4.5% apple pay.

but then there are strong contenders like the smartly 4% everything

 

[jblank]

Surprising they don't try to get more retailers, with the Christmas shopping season upon us. I know I checked to see if they had anything going with Coach last week when I ordered some gifts for my wife and was disappointed by the offerings.

 

[BarrettF77]

I have used my Apple Care less and less. GS as a bank is a joke and it's pretty apparent from the reports we read here they don't care and are just done.

So I've been using other cards instead since it's just not reliable, but would love a bank like Chase to come in and take over.

 

[macfacts]

use some self control and dont buy and save then you get 100% cash back.

 

[victorvictoria]

We don't (and never will) use these aggregators for travel. The discounts you get for going direct, plus loyalty points for booking direct, far exceed the meager extra 2% Apple is offering. In addition, hotels only offer a limited selection of rooms to these companies. On Bookings, there may be only 2 rooms left. But call the hotel, and they have 20. Same with airlines. They allocate extremely limited seats to frequent flyers.

Better to get a Fidelity Visa. No fees, it pays 2% on everything, and if you get a debit card, it picks up out of network charges at ATMs, with no limits. Use Apple Pay at the Apple Store and get your 3%. Or use your Amazon Prime card, buy your Apple goods at Amazon, and get 5% credit to your account. And usually a price break as well.

 

[Ozid]

So Chargepoint needs to be done via Apple Card Apple Pay or can I store the Apple Card in the app and use their Wallet badge to begin charging? If I think about this next time I'm at a charge point, I'll update while I'm charging.

 

[segfaultdotorg]

6% if you subscribe to iCash Pro.

 

[Ronald Reagan]

It’s a competitive credit card marketplace out there. The bar has been raised by a number issuers. Start giving 5% or more on whole categories of merchants, then we can talk. I rarely use the card anymore. My floor is now north of 3%. Sorry, time to up your game, Apple.

 

[tooloud10]

We don't (and never will) use these aggregators for travel. The discounts you get for going direct, plus loyalty points for booking direct, far exceed the meager extra 2% Apple is offering. In addition, hotels only offer a limited selection of rooms to these companies. On Bookings, there may be only 2 rooms left. But call the hotel, and they have 20. Same with airlines. They allocate extremely limited seats to frequent flyers.

But it's trivially easy to check both ways. Last week I saved $45 on a Hilton room by booking through hotels.com, while the time before it was a better deal to book direct. No big deal.

 

[victorvictoria]

But it's trivially easy to check both ways. Last week I saved $45 on a Hilton room by booking through hotels.com, while the time before it was a better deal to book direct. No big deal.

Not a bad way to do it. But a better way would be to get that price from hotels.com, then call the Hilton and tell them that price. They'll match it to get the whole payment, rather than pay hotels.com a percentage. Works every time for us. In addition, we get loyalty points that you miss when going through an aggregator.

 

[emulator]

If it has 3% cash back on everything, i might consider it over us bank altitude reserve’s 4.5% apple pay.

but then there are strong contenders like the smartly 4% everything

But that 4.5% is only on travel and it's either through their portal or real time rewards that only works if you have more points than your spending, otherwise 3% cb. Also, tying $100k at USBank for the 4% is a good idea?

 

[CrysisDeu]

But that 4.5% is only on travel and it's either through their portal or real time rewards that only works if you have more points than your spending, otherwise 3% cb. Also, tying $100k at USBank for the 4% is a good idea?

You can buy a ticket and then refund it, or you can just use it towards uber etc.

You can buy etfs at US Bank’s investment account, don’t see a reason not to move part of a portfolio there for a easy 4% everything card

 

[Emily4]

We don't (and never will) use these aggregators for travel. The discounts you get for going direct, plus loyalty points for booking direct, far exceed the meager extra 2% Apple is offering. In addition, hotels only offer a limited selection of rooms to these companies. On Bookings, there may be only 2 rooms left. But call the hotel, and they have 20. Same with airlines. They allocate extremely limited seats to frequent flyers.

Better to get a Fidelity Visa. No fees, it pays 2% on everything, and if you get a debit card, it picks up out of network charges at ATMs, with no limits. Use Apple Pay at the Apple Store and get your 3%. Or use your Amazon Prime card, buy your Apple goods at Amazon, and get 5% credit to your account. And usually a price break as well.

In my experience, the exact same flight + hotel is cheaper by a few hundred $ through a third party than booking direct. The itinerary is exactly the same, just $400 less from Expedia including any taxes and fees.

Maybe it’s because they are giving a discount for booking a hotel and flight together, but it *was* cheaper to not book direct.