Originally Posted by
sweetpea1813
Thanks so much for your prompt response. Yes, I saw that on the wiki. I guess I was hoping for other people's personal experience. I just opened the card, and the billing period doesn't end until May, but I made payment as soon as I hit the $1,000 spend. I am hoping not to wait until May (close of the statement) to receive my points. I didn't know whether the points would post within a shorter period after payment, even though the billing period does not end for 1.5 months.
Payment has NOTHING to do with when the points earned would be posted.
Your statement date shown online is NOT the actual statement date. For whatever reason, Chase site never is able to show a correct statement date for the FIRST cycle. That date shown online is actually a constantly changing date, i.e. you may see totally different date each time you log in.
Using the phone system you would then find out your real statement date.