Earlier this month BMO launched a whole new slate of small business credit cards that all offer rewards. From proprietary rewards to cash back to AIR MILES, BMO has them all in their portfolio and they are all updated for today’s market. Previously BMO was only pushing their AIR MILES business cards and those have been updated and made better while also adding into the mix a BMO Rewards (their proprietary program) and a BMO CashBack Business MasterCard.
A quick look at the cards show that they have very strong sign up offers, the BMO Rewards Business Mastercard matches the personal version with a 35,000 point sign up bonus worth $250 towards travel via BMO Rewards along with the first year annual fee waived. What the Business version lacks and this is surprising since it is a travel card is the Priority Pass benefit like the personal card has. Overall, unless you really need the business tracking and optional employee card option or don’t need the Priority Pass you are better off going with the personal version.
For the CashBack card, same thing, strong initial offer of 6% back on select purchases for 4 months but once your outside of that the card is relatively weak compared to lots of other cards. Once again unless you really need the business tracking and optional employee card
option o you are better off with other non-business cards that are way more rewarding.
Finally on the AIR MILES side, they have two new cards for businesses, an annual fee version and a no annual fee card. The annual fee card is strong not only on the initial sign up bonus of up to 3,000 miles and first year free but it also earn 1 miles for every $10 spend meaning it matches the best personal AIR MILES card out there. However it does not offer the 15% off AIR MILES flights in North America like the personal card. The no-fee version is much like the personal no-fee version with a 500 mile sign up bonus.
Here are the details on the four new BMO Business Credit Cards:
BMO Rewards® Business Mastercard®*
Get 35,000 points after you spend $5,000 in the first 3 months*
– Welcome Offer: No annual fee for the first year*
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Earn 3 BMO Rewards points for every $1 you spend on gas, office supplies and cell phone/internet bill payments*
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Earn 1.5 BMO Rewards points for every $1 you spend*
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25 payment grace days*
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Optional Employee Cards – empower employees with delegated purchasing authority*
– Use your card at Costco locations across Canada*
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Travel Protection*
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Our Liability Waiver Program protects your business against employee card abuse*
BMO CashBack® Business Mastercard®*
Welcome Offer: Get 6% cash back on gas, office supplies and cell phone/internet bills for 4 months*
– Get 1.5% cash back on eligible gas stations, office supplies
purchases and on your cell phone and internet recurring payments*
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1.75% cash back at Shell®*
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0.75% cash back on all other card purchases*
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25 payment grace days*
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Optional Employee Cards – empower employees with delegated purchasing authority*
– Use your card at Costco locations across Canada*
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Our Liability Waiver Program protects your business against employee card abuse*
BMO® AIR MILES®† Business® Mastercard®*
Get up to 3,000 AIR MILES Bonus Miles*
– Welcome Offer: No annual fee for the first year*
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Earn 1 AIR MILES Reward Mile on every $10 you spend*
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Plus – earn 1.25X the Miles when you use your card at participating Shell stations*
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25 payment grace days*
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Optional Employee Cards – empower employees with delegated purchasing authority*
– Use your card at Costco locations across Canada*
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Travel Protection*
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Our Liability Waiver Program protects your business against employee card abuse*
BMO® AIR MILES®† No-Fee Business® Mastercard®*
Get up to 500 AIR MILES Bonus Miles*
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Earn 1 AIR MILES Reward Mile on every $20 you spend*
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Plus – earn 1.25X the Miles for every $20 you spend at participating Shell stations*
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25 payment grace days*
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Optional Employee Cards – empower employees with delegated purchasing authority*
– Use your card at Costco locations across Canada*
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Our Liability Waiver Program protects your business against employee card abuse*
You can find these and other BMO cards on Rewards Canada’s BMO page.