what is the best credit card for miles and cashback to use with cardup currently ?
and, which is more worth it ?
- Miles
- cash back
For miles, you would have to how you value your miles. At 1.4mpd, $1000 payment will incur $26 fee, which gives you 1436 miles (minus cut off, for cards like PRVI which only awards for every $5). That gives $0.016+ per mile. Or $0.01868 per mile if you use a 1.2mpd card. Still better than those who will accept the Citibank premier miles annual fee of $192.60 for 10k miles ($0.019 per mile) or the OCBC voyager card of $10k for 500k miles ($0.02 per mile). That is, if you have that many things to spend on. Of course, if you have other cardup discount codes and/or promotions on your credit card for spending, the value you are effectively "purchasing" the miles comes down.
For cashback, it is more straight forward. First you must make sure your card gives cashback for cardup transactions, then your cashback must be more than the cardup fee, otherwise you will need other promotions to tie in to get value out of the transaction.
I find people always ask for "best" without giving any other information. How do we know what is best for you? Each cashback card has its limits on the rebates you can get. BOC family card gives 5% rebate up to $30, or max $600 spending. To someone with a $584 bill, it will be best as after the fee, it adds up to almost $600 spending. But for someone with a $2000 bill, then it is not the best card for the entire sum of money.