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Chase is offering select Chase Freedom/Freedom Flex Cardholders: 5% Back on Eligible Purchases at McDonald's, PayPal, Pet Shops & Vet Services, and Select Charities when you activate this offer on your qualifying card (Activate by December 14, 2024). Offer valid from October 1 to December 31, 2024, for these bonus categories.Thanks to Community Member Frugal_gal_ for sharing this deal.
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Chase is offering select Chase Cardholders: 5% Back on Eligible Purchases at McDonald's, Paypal, Pet Shops and Vet Services, Select Charities when you activate this offer on your qualifying card. Offer valid from October 1 to December 31, 2024 for these bonus categories.

Note: The offer can be activated starting September 15th.

(When viewing the quarterly categories outside of logging in to chase.com, it says info coming soon. However, when logging in to credit card and viewing the details link next to where it shows current categories....see 2nd screenshot I have here.............it shows all the year's categories, including the above Q4 list, which I've attached as pic #1 here.)



Select Chase Cardholders - Q4 Bonus Categories - McDonalds, Paypal, Pet Shops and Vet Services, Select Charities

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Push purchases to PayPal for three months. Walmart.com takes PayPal, as well as most online vendors other than Amazon.

If you haven't hit your $1500 maximum by the end of the quarter, send money to yourself or a family member using PayPal. There's a 2.9% + $0.30 transaction fee, so you pocket 2%.

Edit: I like another posters idea of making a quarterly tax payment using PayPal. 2% fee, pocket 3%. Plus, no risk of it being categorized as a cash advance. https://www.payusatax.com/

You'll get it back with your tax refund.
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OP, is this is for Freedom and Freedom Flex cards only? if so, might want to change to "select Chase Freedom cardholders."

This is one of the stranger groups of Chase categories I've seen.
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Last years Q4 had Costco and PayPal.
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eqmagical
10-06-2024 at 09:14 AM.
10-06-2024 at 09:14 AM.
Quote from Elpee :
5% cash back of Discover at Amazon is for stuff sold by Amazon not from 3rd parties. With Amazon gift cards, you can buy any stuff at Amazon with 5% off.

That's not true. Anything from Amazon regardless sold by Amazon or 3rd party. It's considered "Amazon"
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scottzee
10-06-2024 at 12:59 PM.
10-06-2024 at 12:59 PM.
Anyone else having issues with vendors not allowing you to choose with card to use with PayPal? There used to be an option to choose but now most of the time when you choose to pay it just makes you sign in and doesn't let you choose any options at all. I even made my Chase card my "preferred" card in PayPal and it still used my balance as well as my Amex card for the transaction. 😡
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Chupacabras
10-06-2024 at 01:26 PM.
10-06-2024 at 01:26 PM.
Quote from scottzee :
Anyone else having issues with vendors not allowing you to choose with card to use with PayPal? There used to be an option to choose but now most of the time when you choose to pay it just makes you sign in and doesn't let you choose any options at all. I even made my Chase card my "preferred" card in PayPal and it still used my balance as well as my Amex card for the transaction. 😡
Note that this is generally not a PayPal issue, but a vendor/merchant issue. For example, 6 months ago you made a payment to your electric company using PayPal using your Amex, but your vendor in that situation sets up PayPal as a payment method attaching also the card that you used. Any future payments to that merchant with PayPal will go straight to that card. It is similar to setting up direct debit with a merchant using PayPal; every payment period PayPal will just charge the same card. Some merchants like utility companies set up PayPal this same way even though you are intending to only do a one-time payment (I assume because they provide the option for an automatic debit so everything is lumped together).

Having said all that, the solution is to go to the vendor/merchant site under your account and removing PayPal as a payment option. Once PayPal is removed you would then select it again which should provide you with the option to select a credit card (note that the same thing above will happen and that credit card will continue to be used in the future no matter what your PayPal preferred card is). Not a great solution and you just have to remember to remove and re-add PayPal with a different card in these situations (e.g. Discover has PayPal as a bonus in a future quarter and you now want to use Discover with that merchant).
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scottzee
10-06-2024 at 01:41 PM.
10-06-2024 at 01:41 PM.
Quote from Chupacabras :
Note that this is generally not a PayPal issue, but a vendor/merchant issue. For example, 6 months ago you made a payment to your electric company using PayPal using your Amex, but your vendor in that situation sets up PayPal as a payment method attaching also the card that you used. Any future payments to that merchant with PayPal will go straight to that card. It is similar to setting up direct debit with a merchant using PayPal; every payment period PayPal will just charge the same card. Some merchants like utility companies set up PayPal this same way even though you are intending to only do a one-time payment (I assume because they provide the option for an automatic debit so everything is lumped together).

Having said all that, the solution is to go to the vendor/merchant site under your account and removing PayPal as a payment option. Once PayPal is removed you would then select it again which should provide you with the option to select a credit card (note that the same thing above will happen and that credit card will continue to be used in the future no matter what your PayPal preferred card is). Not a great solution and you just have to remember to remove and re-add PayPal with a different card in these situations (e.g. Discover has PayPal as a bonus in a future quarter and you now want to use Discover with that merchant).

Very helpful, thanks!
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eqmagical
10-06-2024 at 01:47 PM.
10-06-2024 at 01:47 PM.
Quote from Chupacabras :
Note that this is generally not a PayPal issue, but a vendor/merchant issue. For example, 6 months ago you made a payment to your electric company using PayPal using your Amex, but your vendor in that situation sets up PayPal as a payment method attaching also the card that you used. Any future payments to that merchant with PayPal will go straight to that card. It is similar to setting up direct debit with a merchant using PayPal; every payment period PayPal will just charge the same card. Some merchants like utility companies set up PayPal this same way even though you are intending to only do a one-time payment (I assume because they provide the option for an automatic debit so everything is lumped together).

Having said all that, the solution is to go to the vendor/merchant site under your account and removing PayPal as a payment option. Once PayPal is removed you would then select it again which should provide you with the option to select a credit card (note that the same thing above will happen and that credit card will continue to be used in the future no matter what your PayPal preferred card is). Not a great solution and you just have to remember to remove and re-add PayPal with a different card in these situations (e.g. Discover has PayPal as a bonus in a future quarter and you now want to use Discover with that merchant).

I encountered that when I did ubereats. I had to remove PayPal as payment then add again to choose which card to use via PayPal. It's just pain in the ass to do so tho.
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pur | Staff
10-06-2024 at 01:47 PM.
10-06-2024 at 01:47 PM.
Quote from scottzee :
Anyone else having issues with vendors not allowing you to choose with card to use with PayPal? There used to be an option to choose but now most of the time when you choose to pay it just makes you sign in and doesn't let you choose any options at all. I even made my Chase card my "preferred" card in PayPal and it still used my balance as well as my Amex card for the transaction. 😡
Should be able to change it here https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/autopay/
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warsatan
10-06-2024 at 02:00 PM.
10-06-2024 at 02:00 PM.
Quote from pur :
Should be able to change it here https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/autopay/

Oh , man, you're the best ! I changed the prefer card as payment and it still used my old card. Now I know why. Thanks !
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Sagar26
10-07-2024 at 10:21 AM.
10-07-2024 at 10:21 AM.
Quote from scottzee :
Anyone else having issues with vendors not allowing you to choose with card to use with PayPal? There used to be an option to choose but now most of the time when you choose to pay it just makes you sign in and doesn't let you choose any options at all. I even made my Chase card my "preferred" card in PayPal and it still used my balance as well as my Amex card for the transaction. 😡

Same, i am trying to pay tmobile through paypal but it doesnt let me use credit card Frown my utilities doesnt take paypal anymore...
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CrimsonFruit7666
10-07-2024 at 05:07 PM.
10-07-2024 at 05:07 PM.
Can also buy GCs at Cardcash the web interface takes PayPal but not Iphone App. So hit the web site.. to buy gift cards
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jawshoeaw
10-08-2024 at 07:09 PM.
10-08-2024 at 07:09 PM.
Chase website wouldn't accept my info , tried 5 times and got locked out. Was able to activate via phone
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J03
10-09-2024 at 11:32 AM.
10-09-2024 at 11:32 AM.
Quote from spoonjab :
Got an alert today that my Freedom card is automatically getting converted to Freedom Unlimited and that we are losing 5% quarterly categories. Is this for everyone? Can I ask them not to?
Did you contact Chase and get an answer on this? I've had my Freedom card since before 5% categories were a thing and have never gotten that alert. Frankly I wish they would. When I first got my Freedom card it was 2% cash back on everything across the board. The 5% categories were a huge downgrade. Looking at Freedom Unlimited, 1.5% on everything, 3% restaurants/drug stores, and 5% travel through chase travel sounds really appealing.
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10-11-2024 at 05:27 PM.
10-11-2024 at 05:27 PM.
Paypal stock is going up lately, keep buying all..
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10-12-2024 at 05:38 PM.
10-12-2024 at 05:38 PM.
Quote from J03 :
Did you contact Chase and get an answer on this? I've had my Freedom card since before 5% categories were a thing and have never gotten that alert. Frankly I wish they would. When I first got my Freedom card it was 2% cash back on everything across the board. The 5% categories were a huge downgrade. Looking at Freedom Unlimited, 1.5% on everything, 3% restaurants/drug stores, and 5% travel through chase travel sounds really appealing.
I did not contact them. I do have a 2nd and that did not get the change
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JXN90
10-17-2024 at 10:24 AM.
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Looks like Shell got rid of PayPal as a payment option in their app.

Edit: nvm they re added PayPal payment.
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lafskso4
10-17-2024 at 09:30 PM.
10-17-2024 at 09:30 PM.
Sad to learn that my Freedom Unlimited does not qualify :-(
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