Chase Credit Cards

Two small business credit cards are currently offering the best welcome offers that I ever recall seeing them publish but while both welcome deals are identical, it's the all-around package offered by one of these cards that really catches the eye.

We're two weeks away from the start of the 4th quarter of 2023 and, as usual, Chase has revealed, ahead of time, the Freedom bonus categories that will go live on 1 October and which will remain in place for the rest of the year.

Free night certificates that come as a credit card benefit are mostly pretty simple to use, but things aren't always as straightforward as they should be. I, for example, have recently had an incredibly annoying time trying to redeem one particular certificate and as a quick web search has revealed that I'm far from alone, I thought that I'd flag the issue so that anyone reading this knows what can go wrong and how I eventually got around the problem I faced.

Please accept our apologies for the vague headline, but there's a very good reason for it (and no, it's not clickbait!) The bank whose credit cards are discussed in this post has recently implemented some truly idiotic rules around what we can and cannot include in articles that go on to appear (in very abbreviated form) in our daily email newsletter.

One business credit card has been offering a fantastic 100,000 point welcome bonus for over two years, so when we got a heads up (a few days ago) that the card would have its bonus refreshed, I assumed that the great deal was about to be pulled. Amazingly (and I'm a little stunned by this), not only has the 100,000 point welcome bonus not been pulled today, it has actually been made easier to earn! 

The Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card from Chase continues to offer one of the best welcome bonuses on the market, but there's a lot more to this card than just a one-off points bonanza - this is a credit card that offers excellent spending category bonuses, that makes other great credit cards even better, and that offers one of the rarer (and more useful) credit card benefits around.

Generally speaking, if you want a credit card that offers impressive earnings power you have to be prepared to pay for it and, in a lot of cases, paying for it means taking on annual fees of at least $495/year. Not with the Ink Business Cash Card from Chase.

The Chase Sapphire Preferred Card is one of the cards that gets a lot of people started in the miles and points world, and when you consider the card's relatively low annual fee together with the benefits that it offers and the power that the card has to make other cards even better, that isn't particularly surprising. In fact, I think so highly of this card that it now has a permanent place in my wallet.

Something that most people reading this article will probably know is that every quarter, the Chase Freedom Flex℠ credit card and the Chase Freedom credit card (not open to new applicants) offer bonus points for spending in select categories to cardholders who register their cards after the quarterly categories have been announced.

Chase issues two IHG Rewards co-branded credit cards and while the premium card usually gets most of the attention, this post focuses on the less often discussed no annual fee IHG Rewards Traveler credit card which is currently offering a fantastic welcome bonus and which gives cardholders one of the most valuable IHG Rewards benefits around.