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Old Apr 28, 2005 | 8:17 am
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I had always assumed that the points were solely based on your monthly spend. (How they round...I never really cared.) I have three rewards cards - HH Amex, SPG Amex, and MR Visa.

From an IT perspective, it seems expensive to push points into an individual accumulator every time a transaction takes place. Far easier/cheaper to simply grab the monthly total at the time the batch job runs to build the outgoing file to the airline or hotel in question.
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