New Amex Offer for Contactless Payments: Spend $5, Get $2 Back (Up to $10)

October 21, 2021

New Amex Offer for Contactless Payments: Spend $5, Get $2 Back (Up to $10)

Check your American Express credit cards for a new offer that can save you up to $10 for making contactless payments. You can find this offer in your Amex consumer and business credit cards. Check out the details of the offer below.

Update: More people are now seeing this offer in the accounts. Check again if you weren’t targeted previously when it came out two weeks ago.

Offer

Get a $2 statement credit by using your enrolled Card to make a single purchase of $5 or more in-store using your Contactless Card feature by 12/31/2021. Limit of 5 statement credits (total of $10).

Offer Terms

Offer valid only for purchases made with your Card via a contactless feature.
“Contactless” payment is defined as holding your Contactless card a few inches away from the terminal.
If you cannot use the contactless feature on your Card for the purchase for any reason your purchase will not qualify for this offer.

About Amex Offers

Amex Offers are an extra perk on all American Express credit cards, charge cards, and even prepaid cards. You can see these offers in your accounts either as a statement credit or extra Membership Rewards points for spending a certain amount at an eligible merchant. You will need to add the offer to a specific card, and then use that card to get the credit. Here are a few things you should know:

You should add the offer to your preferred card. Amex Offers are now limited to just one per person. So once you add it to one card, it disappears from other cards.
You can use the Membership Rewards version and the statement credit version of the same offer.
Check out a few options to quickly way to add all offers at once, or use the MaxRewards app that even lets you save offers on multiple cards.
For third party Amex cards you can the American Express Connect site to check for offers and also add them to your cards.
See full list of Amex Offers here.

Guru’s Wrap-up

Check your cards and add the offer now if you have it. You need to have the contactless feature on your Card, which most recent cards do. The offer can be used five times per card.