Setting, forgetting, and getting with UPromise
June 8th, 2008 | by mbhunter |I signed up for UPromise.com years ago and have largely forgotten about it except for the occasional e-mail update about my rewards. (UPromise is a company that has made deals with other companies to “give back” part of a sale as a contribution to a college fund of the member’s choice.)
Setting and forgetting is really nice, actually. Setting up reward programs that you can forget about and still get some benefit out of is a great, easy way to spend less. It’s possible to use UPromise more actively than we do, but getting any kind of reward on a recurring bases for a (mostly) a one-time investment of time is hard to beat.
The way we do this is we register our credit cards with UPromise, and register our participating grocery and drugstore shopping cards with UPromise as well. Doing this triggers rewards when we shop at those grocery stores and drugstores, and also triggers rewards for dining at participating restaurants (up to 8% of qualifying charges).
These rewards go right into our UPromise account; these can be linked eventually to qualifying educational accounts. These rewards are in addition to any rewards that we get from our Chase PerfectCard™ Mastercard® and any coupons we use.
This is an almost-brainless way to earn more rewards, so check out UPromise.com.
3 Responses to “Setting, forgetting, and getting with UPromise”
By netdebt on Jun 9, 2008 | Reply
Be Careful with this type of give back agreements. Often they have high interest rages or Yearly fee’s. Read the fine print.
By Melanie on Jul 23, 2008 | Reply
I don’t agree with getting the credit card. A lot of people get in financial trouble because of rewards cards. With the amount of money spent in high fees and interest, you could have gotten the reward you’re seeking using your own money — cheaper!
However, I use Upromise. I don’t buy products just because they say Upromise on them. I buy things with a combination of good price and “Made in USA”
By diamonds on Jul 13, 2009 | Reply
Upromise is fantastic. I signed up just after my oldest daughter was born 3 1/2 years ago and we’ve collected almost $2000 for her college just from upromise rewards. We got the biggest contribution from buying our house using a real estate agent which partners with upromise. If anyone is buying/selling a house, or getting a mortgage, make sure to check if you can use an agent/bank that gives upromise rewards – even a tiny percentage could be a big bonus since the dollar amounts in the transaction involved are large.