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Plastiq just added a new feature where you can now pay bills with your credit card via wire transfer and ACH. The benefit of this is that your payments will be sent electronically and reach their destination even faster! So concern for a paper check to get lost in the mail. Domestic Wire (Payment arrives…
I’ve written about Plastiq quite a bunch over the past year as it has personally served as a very lucrative way for me to earn points and miles! Related blog posts: Earn Free Points and Miles by Paying Your Bills with Plastiq. For those not familiar with Plastiq, it is a bill payment system where you…
Over the past few months I’ve written about some great ways to pay a merchant that does not accept credit card. Through the bill payment system Plastiq you can actually use a credit card to pay your bills and Plastiq will send a check directly to the merchant. While Plastiq does charge a 2.5% fee for…
Plastiq announced a lucrative promotion where you could pay up to a $500 bill through their system with no fee – you just need to use a MasterCard through the Masterpass payment option. Plastiq is an awesome way to earn points and miles by using a credit card to pay bills where you typically couldn’t use…
Plastiq is an awesome way to earn points and miles by using a credit card to pay bills where you typically couldn’t use a credit card to pay direct. These bills include rent, car loans, utilities, school tuition, taxes etc. Note: Visa and Amex do not allow you to pay your mortgage through Plastiq, although MasterCard…
I’ve written about Plastiq in the past, but in case you have missed it – it is a payment processing site that allows you to pay bills via credit card. You can use it to pay bills such as rent, car loans, utilities, school tuition, taxes, landscaper, plumber, etc.! You can also use it to…
Plastiq allows you to pay bills with a credit card where the merchant wouldn’t accept credit card otherwise. While there is a fee to use this payment processing system, if you use the right credit card you can actually come out ahead! For example, right now the Chase Ink Preferring is coding Plastiq as 3x points!
Plastiq is an awesome way to earn points and miles by using a credit card to pay bills where you typically couldn’t use a credit card to pay direct. These bills include rent, car loans, utilities, school tuition, taxes etc. Visa and Amex do not allow you to pay your mortgage through Plastiq, although MasterCard…
You’ve probably seen me write about Drop in the past, but it is a relatively new app where you link your credit/debit card and then earn points at many popular merchants for every dollar spent with that linked card. After you earn “Drop” points, you can redeem them for gift cards at Starbucks, AMC, iTunes,…
UPDATE: Plastiq reached out to me to let me know that “mortgage payments are not an allowable category on Visa cards”. I was also told that “any attempt to knowingly miscategorize mortgage payments would result in the termination of their Plastiq account.” Over this summer there were many reports stating that you could no longer…
Last month I wrote about a way to use an online bill-pay service to meet minimum spend requirements. This service, called Plastiq typically charges a 2.5% fee when you use an American Express, Visa, Mastercard, or Discover card to send payment to pay a bill. While paying this fee usually isn’t worth it for your regular…
Yesterday I wrote a post describing how I used the online bill-pay service Plastiq to meet minimum spend on a new credit card I applied for a few months ago. Typically this site charges a 2.5% service fee when you use an American Express, Visa, Mastercard, or Discover card to send payment to pay a bill.…
My passion (and obsession!) for travel deals and points started over nine years ago the day I graduated college and took a job in management consulting. I’d spend every Monday through Thursday hotel hoping and embarking on long plane rides just to earn the extra points and miles. Since I was traveling all the time I decided that I was really going to take advantage of the points and miles game... Learn more about Jen »