How to track your program points?
 

I heard there are some sites where you can track all your airline and hotel program points in one place. Any suggestions on what sites are out there, or which ones are best? Also are there any security issues with keeping this stuff on the web.

Personally - tracking all the programs I am in is a lot a paperwork. How do you guys do it?

Could try rewards manager at www.americanexpress.com

Try www.maxmiles.com

I track all of my miles in Quicken. Free product (well, I bought it for my finances). It doesn't have all of the features of some of the other products, but it works great for my needs.

Try www.milesdirect.com

Maxmiles and Milesdirect cost money. Amex RewardsManager appears to be free. Can anyone confirm?

I just posted on another thread about this: http://www.concoursez.com/ . It is still in beta form and somewhat limited in the programs it covers, but it is free.

Yes, AMEX Rewards Manager is free, and I like it. I get a monthly e-mail that has been very accurate and up to date.

Free is good! Any concerns about security?

http://www.OnMoney.com is free and allows you to enter all the major airline ff programs and hotel programs. They update daily and you can log on and check all your balances relatively quickly online.

on my personal excel sheet (on my Mac and synchronized daily with my Palm III) I note:

horizontal:[*]Date (of planned/realized activity)[*]Activity details (flight details or hotel or rental car or 'whatever'), [*]promotion code[*]link to the saved confirmation for some promotions[*]real/basic miles[*]UA miles Rudi[*]UA status miles Rudi[*]LH miles Rudi[*]LH status miles Rudi[*]Qualiflyer miles Rudi[*]Qualiflyer status miles Rudi[*]UA miles Gisela[*]UA status miles Gisela[*]LH miles Gisela[*]LH status miles Gisela[*]Qualiflyer miles Gisela[*]Qualiflyer status miles Gisela

vertical: in add to the individual stays listed chronological it starts with the lates summaries of:[*]Diners points total[*]Marriott points (and stays of the current calendar year) (whenever I reach another 30'000 points I transfer them into UA miles)[*]HHonors points (never cashed any points in yet)[*]Starwood points (from time to time I transfer them into Qualiflyer points)[*]Joker program points (= points program of Swiss Telecom), can be transferred into Qualiflyer miles[*]Key points (Union Bank of Switzerland points program)

cell-background colour: [*]planned = white[*]done = green[*]claimed 1st time = rosa[*]claimed 2nd time = red

Free MaxMiles-powered rewards management services are available at:
www.rewardsmanager.com (AMEX) www.clickrewards.com (called RewardCentral) www.expedia.com ("Mileage Tracker" is free for the first year and continued free if you buy 3 tickets at Expedia during the year) www.oag.com (also called Mileage Tracker)

I signed up for Amex RewardsManager. I already use the site for other Amex services, so it'll be convenient to use this, too. Also - I noticed that RewardsManager has the rental car companies that MilesDirect doesn't have. Kinda nice to be able to track those, too...

I have an excel spreadsheet simmilar to Rudi's. I have a column where I put a Y or N to track if the flight or stay has posted. I also track the bonus points.

www.milesandpoints.com is another free MaxMiles driven system.

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My Aviation Pages
My Travel Pages

I use quicken too, and I find it really very very efficient.
I can have a look at the flights or nights not yet credited, I can write a line saying 'this promotion is valid through...), and even say that I sent a letter, a second letter,...
Very usefull and nice to use !

Maxmiles through clickrewards so it's free is what I use.

Just for those of us that use these internet sites for doing that.

How do you track the flight you made and that, on the next accouny you receive 3 months later, are not yet registered ?
Are you able to write a line in provision of a future confirmatin ?
(We can do that on money or quicken, and we just compare with tthe real summary)

Felis:
MilesDirect has a feature called "EZ Reconciler" that lets you enter your flight/non flight activity in manually. It can be "post dated" and you can also enter the estimated number of miles. kinda like the account register in Quicken and Microsoft Money.

For those who use Quicken, could you explain whether you are using Quicken.com or the PC version? How does it track mileage (or where is it on the quicken.com web site)? Thanks.

Djlawman

Stay away from milesdirect.com. Bad CS (actually NO CS)....and they can't seem to keep track of programs correctly.

I use myaccounts.myciti.com which is powered by Yodlee. It's free, even to those without Citibank accounts, and it aggregates travel programs, bank accounts, credit card accounts, and a bunch of other stuff.

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I've used http://www.maxmiles.com for about a year now. They've done a great job tracking my programs, elite levels & sending me an e-mail statement every 2 weeks.

I signed up for MaxMiles through Expedia a while back. They had a deal if you booked two tickets per year with them, they will pay your annual fee. They have paid my fees for last year and this.

I love www.yodlee.com and it's free and has an application for my Palm Pilot.

Djlawman,

I just use the "plane" ole PC-based Quicken. Nothing fancy, but works well. I run graphs, reports, etc. Nice to see something in my Quicken account rising (unlike my stocks!).

FF

Djlawman,
I do use alrso the good old PC version, and create besides my profile 'felis' and another one, let us call it 'vroumvroum'. I am then able to create an account for Delta, an another one for avis, and then for marriot, .... Even an aother one for the SWU (upgrades) but there is the limit.
Then I declare that the caaount uses miles or kilometers instead of dollars, euros, and, as the sofware is not very smart, it says: OK !
And then , it is the same method as for a banck account.I just must condolidate when I receive my paper summaries, manually.

Personally, I don't ever let it take that long. Any decent airline will post its own miles online within an hour of the flight and partner flights within 24 hours. If something doesn't appear online within a week or so, I make the tedious copies, etc, and send them off to the airline.

Hotels and Continental (do they use 10,000 people and one abacus to run their computer systems or something?) tend to be much slower, but can also usually be chased down before the next statement comes out.

I have used maxmiles for about 1-1/2 years. I have not been charged at all. I also have not used expedia's service.

I am not complaining, but I wonder how I got away if maxmiles is a pay service? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

www.onmoney.com lets you track your account for many airline, hotel, & online rewards programs.

Some credit card and other financial accounts can also be tracked.

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