Originally Posted by
wobbly wings
Do they update the status to Platinum before or at the same time the pts are posted (or indeed the status gets updated because the pts are posted)?
Barclays have to tell the to change your status and by the looks of things they are only doing it once per month at the most so if you just miss one run you could wait another month and then it depends how quickly IHG act on the information from Barclays.
From what other people have said recently it's certainly not linked to the points crediting to your account.