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Amex Platinum Uber Credits
One of the benefits of an American Express Platinum card ( and later this year the Amex Gold Card ) is the Uber credit. The Amex Platinum offers $200 a year in Uber credit split into $15 monthly credits with a $35 credit in December. It can be used for Uber rides or Uber Eats which makes the benefit more versatile. But, what if more than one person in a family carries an Amex Platinum? Can you load those credits onto a single Uber account? The answer is yes.
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When I lived in Los Angeles, I made use of Uber all the time; however, my parents rarely used their credit in the midwest. So, for the last few years we’ve been loading their card onto my Uber account so I’d have access to their Uber Credit. The credit doesn’t go to waste this way plus I’d always let them know if I got a tasty meal from Uber Eats on their credit. My parents used to each have an Amex Platinum, but now only my mom carries once so I have 2 cards attached to my account which yields me $30 a month, Jan-November, and whopping $70 in December.
That’s a lot of uber credit! Obviously…this requires giving someone your account info, so don’t do it if you don’t trust them.
How do you do it?
The first way is to use this link
However I found I could load my card information into my account and it worked fine
Once you’ve do so, close and restart the app. The credits should appear
Which breaks down into the month…
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This is good to know. Do you know if one can toggle the accounts back and forth? For instance let your parents use the credit if they are in a city like NY and then put it back on your card when they are home?
I believe you’d have to delete the payment option and add it to another account
So, do you have to toggle between the various Amex Platinum cards loaded every month to make one of the Uber charges from that primary card and then move it to secondary once it’s charged? I am not sure I follow your methodology in your post.
Each amex adds cumulatively, and each uber ride eats off the total so no toggling is required.
Now that your parent’s AMEX Platinum credit card info is loaded in your Uber account for primary payment, can your parents have the same AMEX Platinum credit card numbers loaded into their own accounts?
Hello, I would love your help. I am trying to give my uber credits to my daughter. Right now she is set up as a family member and has my Platinum loaded into her account for payment. The credit isn’t showing up for her, how do I have the credit go to her account?
Try delinking your card from her account, and if her additional cardmember is attched, delink it as well. Then just relink your card and see what happens
Which credits are applied first, Uber credits or Amex credits?
Dennis – I couldn’t accurately tell you between the two as I only have Amex credits on the account, no uber credits per se.