fr3qu3ntfly3r

According to The Points Guy

Chase Pay Merchants include:

Walmart (Online only)

Best Buy (Chase pay app)

&pizza (Chase pay app)

Potbelly (Chase pay app)

Several others.

mia

Listed here:

https://www.chase.com/digital/digita...chant-partners

HawkeyeFlyer

I can hit this one on groceries alone. Glad Chase has made the first two quarters so easy to hit.

fr3qu3ntfly3r

It's not official since chase hasn't updated the bonus categories website yet. However, multiple sites are mentioning those categories for quarter two.

isle-hawg

I do not MS or want to deal with GCs anymore, very disappointing that Chase keeps copying Discover each quarter with few exceptions for the major category. Chase pay is useless to me, PayPal has some use.

Caribgrl

A bit disappointed in these categories for this quarter because of the fact that we will be on a vacation at some point during this quarter so something like restaurants would have been perfect. But I can get gc's at the grocery stores as well as gc's from Wal-Mart.com So definitely will max this quarter out...

pdxer

Actually, they have, at least for groceries. The 'coming soon' graphic on the Freedom calendar is named cal_icon_groceries.png. Unfortunately, no clues for the next two categories.

nall

Categories confirmed in press release:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...New-Category-5

mia

I do not have a PayPal account, but many small online merchants use PayPal as their payment processor. I simply enter my card details and decline the annoying opportunity to create an account. Would we expect that type of transaction to qualify for the bonus?

serpens

I had not even considered that it would not qualify for the bonus; I just assumed it would. Now you have me worried.

Please, if anyone knows, speak up.

bgriff

I'm a big fan of the Paypal option -- I use it fairly frequently to pay for purchases at smaller online stores ... mainly because I am too lazy to type in my address and credit card number. (I feel a little bad for some small merchants because as I understand it, Paypal charges outrageous merchant fees, well above what Amex or any other credit card company would charge ... but oh well. Perhaps Paypal is sharing some of that bounty with Chase this quarter to make this promotion possible.)

Keep in mind -- many bigger clothing/shoes/accessories/etc. retailers and department stores are Shop Through Chase partners *and* accept Paypal payments. There are some pretty nice rates of return possible.

It also seems like Chase is trying to be crafty about getting people to change their default cards for recurring bills to Freedom, and hoping that people won't bother to change it back to something else afterwards. This quarter, there was an incentive to change your phone and cable bill, as well as your Netflix bill, to your Freedom card, and I'm sure many people won't bother to change it back even though it will only earn 1% going forward. Similar with making Freedom your default Apple/Android Pay card, and now your default Paypal card.

@mia -- I suspect using PayPal without setting up an account will work the same and qualify for bonus points either way.

sdsearch

When you do, does the payee come across as "paypal -- name of merchant" or just "name of merchant"? Only if the former (which is how "true" PayPal purchases come cross) would I guess you might get a bonus, certainly not if the latter and thus there's nothing on your statement that says "paypal" about the purchase.

I have a PayPal account simply because I was buying stuff regularly on ebay years ago. Back then, it was the only way to pay on ebay with a credit card (and I've been wanting to earn miles/points with credit cards for getting close to two decades now). And back then, eBay was the easiest place to find certain used stuff (especially stuff "out of print" or otherwise no longer available new). Nowadays Amazon has much more of that than they did a decade ago, so I use eBay much more rarely.

Also, though I don't have any Citi AT&T Access card yet, per the wiki in the Citi Forum AT&T Access More card thread, it says that some online stores don't earn 2x/3x if you pay directly but do if you pay via PayPal. So that's another reason to use PayPal, if you have one of those cards and want to shop at one of those stores.

tmiw

Also, Shell gas stations now accept Chase Pay inside (and some outside too) even though they're not listed at the link. I don't recall if they have gift cards but I also haven't looked too closely.

mia

If I understand correctly, Chase Pay displays a QR code. The pump would have a scanner that can read it, or does Chase Pay also support another technology?

tmiw

It uses GPS to figure out which gas station you're at, after which you enter the pump number in the app and it communicates directly with the pump.