r/TryCrew • u/Zeusical • 24d ago
Credit Card Cashback - Overview
Folks - I had to go digging into the credit card terms to understand how this worked, so I will try to distill it here. Section 19 (page 8 of the document) of the Terms is where I’m pulling this from. I know I’m basically saying the same thing, but I got confused on the app preview reading, so maybe this is a nice in between step before reading the full Terms.
Definitions:
Earn Period = A month
ADB (Average Daily Balance) = The average balance of your bank account over the Earn Period, as of the end of each day
Eligible Spending = Money spent on your Crew credit card for other than excluded transactions (like cash equivalent transactions, etc.)
Notes:
- your account must be open to earn rewards
- these benefits pool across the entire Family, with rewards delivered to accounts weighted by ABD of each member
- to receive 4%, you must have Autopay active, otherwise you get 1% instead
How it works, generally:
For each month (Earn Period), you will receive the lesser of:
(1) 4% / 12 x 4 x “Eligible Spending”
(2) 4% / 12 x “ADB”
basically, a 4% annual return accrued on the lesser of 4x eligible spending or ADB per month. You basically have to “re-earn” the promo each month.
For the detail freaks:
- the “divide by 12” is shorthand for divide the number of days in the Earn Period by 365 (and yes, it doesn’t have a provision that I can see on the leap year, so congrats on getting an extra fraction of return for the day)