Bonus has expired and is no longer available.
Update 1/24/18: Offer is back. Oddly, I can’t find it in my Drop app, maybe it’ll show there soon. Requires new activation. Let me know if you see it. Update: now it’s showing for me.
The Offer
Check your Drop app for the following offer:
- Drop is offering 200 points per $100 in Plastiq bill payments
200 Drop points is worth just 20 cents, but many of us make larger payments which could amount to nice little bonus. For example, a $2,500 mortgage payment will get you $5 back.
Plastiq is a popular bill payment service. Drop is a cash back app which works by linking your bank or credit cards.
The Fine Print
- Valid until
December 31, 2017 - Must activate offer first
- Please allow one week for us to verify that you’ve completed the offer
- Offer cannot be combined with any other offers with Plastiq (the Drop offer might not combine with this offer, for example)
Our Verdict
We introduced Drop back in June. People were having a lot of problems with Drop at rollout, but now it seems to be working fine, probably due to the addition of the $5/wk earning limit. There isn’t huge potential due to the limits, still some find it a nice way to earn a small bonus continuously.
Being that a lot of people are using Plastiq regardless for various bill payments, might as well get the extra $.20 per $100. The offer continues until December, and this can help you get to your $5/wk earnings. Just be sure to activate the offer first.
If you’re new to Drop, you can use our signup code doctorofcredit during registration. You can get a Plastiq referral link here (here’s mine).
Hat tip to reader shaky02dd
This offer is dead again.
I am assuming that the card that is being used at platiq has to be linked with drop correct? how can i do it with gift card?
Right, it’ll only work for credit card payments
where do you see these offers? I only see the same 5 offers as always: McDonalds, Starbucks, Trader Joes, Walmart. Where can I see ALL the offers? surely there’s more than this or is it targeted?
It will pop up when you open the app. Make sure you select activate at that point because you won’t get the pop-up again.
I get nothing like that. I get a Sam’s club offer and like two other crap promos. Keep refreshing app and same results.
EDIT: Had to refresh app 15-20 times to get the Plastiq promo to show on the app’s Home Screen. I don’t think that this has been noted very well in DOC’s article; it’s not as easy as just going into the app and finding all offers. but grateful regardless
Yep… just got offer on my Drop account. Love in Christ.
Chuck, re 1/24/18 email, I couldn’t get it to show up when clicking on email. What worked for me is clearing the drop app cache (Android). It showed immediately after I opened the app, to activate offer.
To be fair, the announcement says “you should see the offer come through in the next few weeks”.
I see it. You have to keep opening and closing the app until it appears.
Strangely, this worked for me – each time I reopened the app, 2 or 3 new offers were shown to me at startup for activation.
It’s now November and I’ve been emailing them weekly for the past 4 weeks about a plastiq offer that I have been using and not getting points for.
Beyond not getting points, I also got only 1 response to my emails. Which was a form letter littered with emoji.
Points were finally applied ~11/25 for purchases that went back to the 1st week of October.
They did not apply September points earned. They have only applied some low amount November/December points – skipping over the 1000+ point purchases and only applying the ~50 point ones.
So if i activate this promo, will I still get the $500 fee free promo?
I am not willing to lose that for $2
I haven’t received any points yet either. I have to assume at some point the big banks will work with someone like Drop or a similar company to blacklist us from them.