I just wanted to make a quick public service announcement today to remind you that Visa SavingsEdge still exists. For those of you not familiar with it, it’s a passive credit card rewards program that lets you enroll any Visa business card to automatically receive rewards above and beyond your credit card rewards.

What merchants will give you bonuses? Once upon a time you could purchase prepaid Visas at Staples and receive cash back from VSE but sadly those days are long gone, which may or may not have something to do with why nobody ever talks about VSE anymore. There are still a few decent merchants on the list though, including a few big gas station chains:

A few restaurants (Look, George! Panera!):

And a bunch of hotels and a few other travel-related companies:

Wyndham and Las Vegas are outside my realm of interest, alas. And while an addtional 2% back at Panera or 1% back on your gas isn’t a game-changer, it’s better than an additional 0% cash back.

In case you were curious I tried out the VSE app to see if it offered anything the website lacked. It does not; it’s actually a pretty lame app.

I don’t do a ton of online shopping, and the Upromise card is not in my wallet, but Upromise is an interesting enough program that that I do make use of both its portal and its credit card from time to time. The latest feature of theirs to catch my eye is their in-store deals. Apparently these have been around for about a year and a half but I never noticed. [Read more…]

There’s a new rewards program from Acorns, an investment app that rounds up your transactions and transfers money from your account to an investment account. It’s kind of like Keep The Change and other such programs.

Via Business Insider, here is the current list of rewards:

• 1-800-Flowers: $15 for every transaction over $20.
• Jet.com: 5% of each transaction.
• JackThreads: $15 for signing up as a new customer.
• Dollar Shave Club: 10% of each transaction.
• Hotel Tonight: $10 for every booking over $100.

The 1-800-Flowers one caught my eye since some folks have written about stacking rewards with them. I haven’t done any extreme rewards stacking with those guys so I have no idea if the $15 would work with another discount or promotion. I haven’t used jet.com either, but since they’re positioned as an Amazon competitor a 5% bonus on purchases could be pretty good.

I believe there are $5 referral bonuses for joining Acorns out there. If anybody has a referral link of their own, feel free to share it in the comments below and become wealthy beyond your wildest dreams.