The online holiday shopping bonus season is here! It’s time to earn more miles, points and cash back

 
Halloween is done and the Christmas Holiday shopping season is now in full swing! With that comes the opportunity to earn a bunch more miles and points when you shop online. We’ve seen numerous bonus offers come out for shopping online via airline and cash back shopping portals this week. Be sure to check them out if you are going to be doing some shopping over the next week or two! 

One thing to note is that there is likely going to be some bigger and better bonus offers for Black Friday/Cyber Monday but you’ll want to take shipping time into consideration especially if you are ordering from the U.S.. Sometimes it’s better to only earn 5x points instead of 10x if it means you’ll get the gift under the tree in time.

You can also find these offers listed on our 2021 Black Friday / Cyber Monday / Holiday deals page


Air Canada Aeroplan

The Aeroplan eStore is offering up to 5x points at select retailers during their first holiday event of the season. Just a small selection of the 5x points merchants include The Bay, Mark’s and Indigo. And with Indigo if you use a Mastercard linked to AIR MILES with their new card linked offers you can earn extra miles if you spend over $65. This first Aeroplan eStore Holiday Event runs until November 14, 2021. Click here for more details.

Rakuten (formerly ebates.ca)

The big cash back site formerly known as ebates is offering up to 3x the cash back when you shop with select retailers. Some of the 3x cash back retailers include The Gap, Old Navy and Lenovo. They have not posted an end date to 3x cash back. Click here for more details

The rest of the bonuses that we added to our sites this week are for U.S. airline programs so you can utilize these for those orders from the U.S. retailers. Ideally when you order from the U.S. you want to use a No Foreign Transaction fee credit card to save you 2.5% on average for those orders. Check out our Ultimate No Foreign Transaction Fee Credit Card Portfolio for some of the better options! 

Plus if you are like the Rewards Canada family, sometimes you are ordering from a store that doesn’t ship to Canada so we utilize a forwarding service called Stackry (this is our referral link, if you sign up you’ll get $10 off and we’ll also receive a $10 credit) Stackry will receive it at their U.S. address and forward it to you for a fee and shipping costs of course! The great thing is that many U.S. retailers don’t charge for shipping in the U.S. so you only pay the one shipping charge from the forwarder.

Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan

Earn up to 1,500 Bonus Mileage Plan Miles when you shop online via the Mileage Plan Shopping portal. Click here for more details Valid until Nov 19, 21

Tier 1 bonus: 300 miles for qualifying purchases of at least
$150
Tier 2 bonus: 750 miles for qualifying purchases of at least
$350
Tier 3 bonus: 1,500 miles for qualifying purchases of $550 or
more.  

American AAdvantage

Earn up to 4,000 Bonus AAdvantage Miles when you shop online via the AAdvantage Shopping portal. Click here for more details Until Nov 19, 21

Tier 1 bonus: 500 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $150

Tier 2 bonus: 1,500 miles for qualifying purchases of $600

Tier 3 bonus: 4,000 miles for qualifying purchases of $1,200 or more.

Delta SkyMiles

Earn up to 2,000 Bonus SkyMiles when you shop online via the SkyMiles Shopping portal. Click here to learn more. Valid until Nov 19, 21

Tier 1 bonus: 500 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $200

Tier 2 bonus: 1,000 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $400 or more

Tier 3 bonus: 2,000 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $800 or more.

Southwest Rapid Rewards

Earn up to 3,500 Bonus Rapid Rewards Poits when you shop online via the Rapid Rewards Shopping portal. Click here to learn more. Valid until Nov 22, 21

Tier one bonus: Earn 500 Rapid Rewards bonus points for qualifying purchases of $100 – $499.99

Tier two bonus: Earn 1,000 Rapid Rewards bonus points for qualifying purchases of $500 – $999.99

Tier three bonus: Earn 3,500 Rapid Rewards bonus points for qualifying purchases of $1,000 or more.

United MileagePlus

Earn up to 5,000 Bonus MileagePlus Miles when you shop online via the MileagePlus Shopping portal. Click here to learn more. Valid until Nov 19, 21

Tier 1 bonus: 500 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $100

Tier 2 bonus: 2,000 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $500

Tier 3 bonus: 5,000 miles for qualifying purchases of $1,000 or more.