On Monday of this week I was looking at the \u201cBank Bonuses\u201d section of my manufactured spend tracking Google Sheet<\/a> and saw that 60 days had passed since signing up for the account and meeting the terms of the bonus, so I logged on to the account to make sure that the 75,000 points had posted. Spoiler alert<\/em>: They hadn\u2019t.<\/p>\n I double checked the landing page\u2019s sign-up bonus terms and also that I had spent $1,000 in the first 30 days, then chatted with Brex using their live chat. It took about 10 minutes, but the support representative confirmed that I met the terms of the offer and said the points would post in 24 hours. Several hours later, I got an email notifying me that the points were in my account. There isn\u2019t more to the story: the points were indeed in my account. Brex\u2019s support had the meatball.<\/a><\/p>\n If I didn\u2019t have at least a tiny sliver of tracking, I probably would have forgotten that the bonus should have posted because between then and now I\u2019ve done a dozen other sign-up or spend bonuses and it\u2019s easy to let one slip through the cracks. It would have cost me 75,000 Brex points, which is worth at least $750 and potentially quite a bit more with mileage transfer partners.<\/p>\n Tracking might sound daunting, but it doesn\u2019t have to be. Here\u2019s what I tracked on my \u201cBank Bonuses\u201d tab of the spreadsheet:<\/p>\n Make sure you\u2019ve got at least basic tracking in some form for sign-up bonuses so you\u2019re not letting money slip through the cracks. It\u2019s surprisingly easy in this game to have a $500 gift card sitting on your desk that you forgot about, a spend bonus that didn\u2019t post, a BestBuy gift card sitting in a stack that was never entered into anything, a gift card email that you marked as read and never saw again, or some other mishap. Please do at least the minimum necessary to make sure that doesn\u2019t happen to you.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re not sure where to start, The Daily Churn Podcast<\/a> recently posted an episode on credit card tracking<\/a> along with their Google Sheets template<\/a>. If you don\u2019t have something like that, perhaps make a copy and start your own? It could mean an extra $750 to spend on your favorite stock, or I guess you could buy 750 Arby\u2019s Roast Beef Sandwiches if they\u2019re running a 5 for $5 special<\/a>, but that might also be your last weekend on Earth after your massive heart attack, so, ymmv<\/em>.<\/p>\n Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n Introduction In October I signed an LLC up for Brex using their TravelBank partner landing page (no, I don\u2019t have a TravelBank account). The sign-up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":2,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7139,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions\/7139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tracking<\/h4>\n
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