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Chase Freedom Flex Cardholders: Extra Cash Back on Eligible Top Spend Category Expired

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(Valid Through Dec 31, 2021)
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Chase offers Chase Freedom Flex Cardholders: 5% Cash Back on Your Top Spend Category (eligible categories below) on up to $1500 in total spend from October 1 – December 31, 2021.

Thanks to community member gullibunni for finding this deal.

Note, offer must be activated by December 14, 2021. Offer eligibility may vary by cardholder. Please refer to the forum thread or FAQ Page for additional information & offer discussion.

Eligible Categories:
  • Travel (including Transit)
  • Dining
  • Home Improvement Stores
  • Grocery Stores (not including Target and Walmart purchases)
  • Drugstores
  • Gas Stations
  • Select Live Entertainment
  • Select Streaming Services
  • Fitness Clubs
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Received this Chase Freedom Flex promo email today in addition to

Quarterly Bonus Offer

Activate and earn 5% total cash back (4% in addition to your unlimited 1% cash back) from Chase, on up to $1,500 in combined purchases, at Walmart1 and on purchases made using PayPal from Oct. 1–Dec. 31, 2021.

Limited Time: Top spend category bonus

When you activate this quarter, you'll earn 5% total cash back (4% in addition to your unlimited 1% cash back) on up to $1,500 in the eligible rewards category where you spend the most from Oct. 1–Dec. 31, 2021.3 If you use PayPal, a Q4 bonus category, as a payment method for purchases in your top spend category, you will earn a total of 9%.

See FAQ for details.

Eligible Rewards Categories:
• Travel (including transit)
• Dining
• Home Improvement Stores
• Select Streaming Services
• Select Live Entertainment
• Gas Stations
• Drugstores
• Fitness Clubs & Gym Memberships
• Grocery Stores (not including Target and Walmart purchases)

Have questions about how your top spend category offer works with your other bonus category earn? See FAQ for details.
Activate both offers

If you haven't already, activate by Dec. 14, 2021.

https://www.chasebonus.com/ThankY...5546330a9d
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Set up PayPal so you can pay with QR codes. Link your Chase freedom flex as the payment method.

CVS is one of the few places that take PayPal QR codes as payment. It's been recommended to use self checkout, if possible. Once you add the gift card, DO NOT click any payment method on the self checkout terminal. Instead, scan your PayPal QR code like you are buying something. Then it will allow you to checkout and pay with PayPal.

If it does indeed stack with the 2% back at drug stores as the other thread suggests, that's 11% back on up to $1500.
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I don't think you read the whole post...
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It is only for Freedom Flex.
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hotpeanuts
10-23-2021 at 10:00 AM.
10-23-2021 at 10:00 AM.
This is targeted...not available on my Freedom Flex.
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SlvrDragon50
10-23-2021 at 10:25 AM.
10-23-2021 at 10:25 AM.
Wow this is huge. 9% cash back on PayPal.
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snowcrash
10-23-2021 at 10:44 AM.
10-23-2021 at 10:44 AM.
What is the top spend category offer

This offer is separate from your quarterly bonus category offer, but automatically added to your account when you activate your Q4 bonus categories. You'll earn 5% cash back on up to $1500 in total spend in the eligible rewards category where you spend the most from October 1 – December 31, 2021. That's 4% additional cash back on top of the 1% cash back per $1 USD spent that you earn on all purchases.


If I use Paypal, a Q4 quarterly bonus category, as a payment method for purchases in my top category, can I earn both offers?

Yes, however please note since both your top spend category and quarterly bonus category offers are earned as 4% bonus cash back on top of the 1% cash back you earn on every purchase, and the 1% can only be earned once per purchase, the most you will earn per $1 spent is 9% cash back:
  • 1% base earn on every purchase
  • 4% bonus earn on quarterly bonus categories
  • + 4% bonus earn on top spend category
  • 9% total cash back

Dining and Drugstores will earn 7% total in the top spend category


https://creditcards.chase.com/fre...ds/flexfaq

5% on $1500 Quarterly bonus calendar
5% on $1500 Top Spend Category

If the total purchases in the 4th quarter is $1500 or less, Chase will automatically combine both promotions on the highest spent category in the top category that was paid with Paypal for a total bonus of 9%
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Dioahcocss
10-23-2021 at 11:01 AM.
10-23-2021 at 11:01 AM.
If this stacks with the quarterly category of Paypal, fyi you can use it in Apple checkout meaning a pretty big discount on that new macbook pro.
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ieee488
10-23-2021 at 11:19 AM.
10-23-2021 at 11:19 AM.
Quote from Dioahcocss :
If this stacks with the quarterly category of Paypal, fyi you can use it in Apple checkout meaning a pretty big discount on that new macbook pro.
Unless Macbook Pro is sold by a store in one of these caregories, you get 5% not 9%.
  • Travel (including Transit)
  • Dining
  • Home Improvement Stores
  • Grocery Stores (not including Target and Walmart purchases)
  • Drugstores
  • Gas Stations
  • Select Live Entertainment
  • Select Streaming Services
  • Fitness Clubs
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Last edited by ieee488 October 23, 2021 at 11:50 AM.
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twinbird
10-23-2021 at 11:33 AM.
10-23-2021 at 11:33 AM.
Quote from freeload :
I tried buying a $500 serve visa card at CVS and failed. First I went to the self-check out and the transaction stalled because it was over $250. A cashier then rings me up on a cash register and asks for my ID and swipes it into the system. Then when it comes time to pay he scans my PayPal QR code and tells me that it's not going through. So I aborted that transaction and tried with Vanilla Visa GC at a the self-check-out but that too failed due to being over $250. What did I or the cashier do wrong and is it bad sign that they swiped my ID for such low transaction amount?
On 1st page samwathegreat saying that "CVS is one of the few places that take PayPal QR codes as payment. It's been recommended to use self checkout, if possible. Once you add the gift card, DO NOT click any payment method on the self checkout terminal. Instead, scan your PayPal QR code like you are buying something. Then it will allow you to checkout and pay with PayPal."
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rationalspender
10-23-2021 at 11:59 AM.
10-23-2021 at 11:59 AM.
Quote from twinbird :
On 1st page samwathegreat saying that "CVS is one of the few places that take PayPal QR codes as payment. It's been recommended to use self checkout, if possible. Once you add the gift card, DO NOT click any payment method on the self checkout terminal. Instead, scan your PayPal QR code like you are buying something. Then it will allow you to checkout and pay with PayPal."
Their post doesn't make it sound like they even did it tho.
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vajratlr
10-23-2021 at 12:42 PM.
10-23-2021 at 12:42 PM.
Was anyone able to verify 11% from drugstores?
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Climber44
10-23-2021 at 12:58 PM.
10-23-2021 at 12:58 PM.
Quote from cho9736 :
yes, it will stack.
But it will only stack for the highest category of spend. PayPal + 5%, additional 4% for your top spend category among the following (not for each or combined, but highest one out of the bunch):

Travel (including Transit)
Dining
Home Improvement Stores
Grocery Stores (not including Target and Walmart purchases)
Drugstores
Gas Stations
Select Live Entertainment
Select Streaming Services
Fitness Clubs
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Climber44
10-23-2021 at 01:00 PM.
10-23-2021 at 01:00 PM.
Quote from WittyLaborer921 :
I think I get this deal, but one thing I am not 100% sure about, does the top spending category apply ONLY to the freedom flex card, or is it accross ALL of your spending for every chase card on your account? I have 5 chase cards, so my top spending category is very different depending on which one is the case.
Freedom Flex, only.
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ieee488
10-23-2021 at 01:05 PM.
10-23-2021 at 01:05 PM.
Quote from vajratlr :
Was anyone able to verify 11% from drugstores?
Not until after Dec. 31, 2021 + 8 weeks max.

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Dioahcocss
10-23-2021 at 01:45 PM.
10-23-2021 at 01:45 PM.
Quote from ieee488 :
Unless Macbook Pro is sold by a store in one of these caregories, you get 5% not 9%.
  • Travel (including Transit)
  • Dining
  • Home Improvement Stores
  • Grocery Stores (not including Target and Walmart purchases)
  • Drugstores
  • Gas Stations
  • Select Live Entertainment
  • Select Streaming Services
  • Fitness Clubs
My bad, for some reason I thought I saw PayPal in that list again. Thanks for the polite correction.
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10-23-2021 at 04:46 PM.

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10-23-2021 at 04:46 PM.
Also could not use self checkout at cvs. Asked cashier if she had ever used the paypal QR code and she said a paypal button had recently shown up on the register. So she scanned the gift card, pushed the paypal button, scaned my QR code and it worked!
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HalcyonDays
10-23-2021 at 05:59 PM.
10-23-2021 at 05:59 PM.
Quote from phidong :
Can't you just call and do a product change to flex?

Yes, that's what I did.
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Kumquats
10-23-2021 at 06:25 PM.
10-23-2021 at 06:25 PM.
Quote from ieee488 :
Unless Macbook Pro is sold by a store in one of these caregories, you get 5% not 9%.
  • Travel (including Transit)
  • Dining
  • Home Improvement Stores
  • Grocery Stores (not including Target and Walmart purchases)
  • Drugstores
  • Gas Stations
  • Select Live Entertainment
  • Select Streaming Services
  • Fitness Clubs

Uhh... Go to any of those categories to buy gift cards to the store of your choice. 9%.
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