Cashback from Barclays blue?

WillPS

ForumUser7 said:

Anyone tried university tuition fee invoice payments by debit card for this 5% cashback offer please? Ts and Cs say no bill payments, but internet suggests bills and invoices may be classed differently. I’m not convinced it’d work, but thought it was worth checking. Thank you

Depends on which MCC your university utilitises.

ForumUser7

Thanks both - I’ll give it a try, just unfortunate that it is unlikely that any due cashback would become available before the end of this calendar month.

At least with chase I can try with £1 and then see immediately!

pochisoldi

magnetiser said:

pochisoldi said:

Test purchase made on the 14th October, cleared the account on the 16th.

It's 21/10/23. The app is showing £0.00 "As at 11/10/2023". Clicking on the "Barclays Cashback Awards" link takes me to an app page showing total cashback £0.00, Available cashback £0.00, pending cashback £0.00.
Clicking on the "Redeem and view offers" button takes me out of the app to a web page which repeats the £0 total/pending/available" information, and clicking on the three dots at the top followed by "Linked Cards" shows a single card - the card that expired years ago, and the current card is not shown.
A phone call to Barclays on the 19th, took 30 minutes with the conclusion that "It should be working". I opened a complaint - still waiting for the confirmation letter.
In the meantime I spent just short of £50 on the card over the weekend to see if anything turns up.
My gut feeling is that the only way I will see any money from this "promotion" will be in the form of compensation.

Can anyone else tell me if they see their cashback balance increase on the "website accessed through the app" when they've made a purchase, and if so how long did it take to show up?

Did you have any luck here? I've also had to raise a complaint due to the card linked being incorrect. I wouldn't mind, but I've only ever had one Barclays card, so really not sure how that's happened.

Zero cashback showing for transactions from 9th October onwards.

Nothing - no confirmation of the complaint (will chase that tomorrow), "Linked card" shows old card, with latest card not shown.

App still shows "Barclays Cashback Rewards £0.00 cashback balance as of 11/10/2023".

No evidence of any cashback earned (small test transaction on the 9th, just shy of £50 spend last weekend).
I have switched back to my usual spending cards for cashback - expect to be given some form of compensation.

ForumUser7

WillPS said:

ForumUser7 said:

Anyone tried university tuition fee invoice payments by debit card for this 5% cashback offer please? Ts and Cs say no bill payments, but internet suggests bills and invoices may be classed differently. I’m not convinced it’d work, but thought it was worth checking. Thank you

Depends on which MCC your university utilitises.

If it is MCC 8220 (https://usa.visa.com/content/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/visa-merchant-data-standards-manual.pdf) presumably it’ll work, as university isn’t ruled out in the Barclays ts and cs. Fingers crossed I suppose!

ForumUser7

Sorry all, 1 more question - if I spent £280 on my Barclays card for example, I would get £14 cashback at 5% if it wasn’t a £10 cap. Presumably due to the £10 cap, I would get the £10 rather than nothing (due to having gone over the cap)?

I’d previously heard from Barclays (but I suspect it is wrong) say for example I spent £100, and got £5 cash back, and then went onto spend another £100 I would get another £5. However if my second transaction exceeded £100, I would in fact get nothing for it as I would’ve exceeded the £10 cap if it was paid.

orange-juice

ForumUser7 said:

Anyone tried university tuition fee invoice payments by debit card for this 5% cashback offer please? Ts and Cs say no bill payments, but internet suggests bills and invoices may be classed differently. I’m not convinced it’d work, but thought it was worth checking. Thank you

If you have a curve card and a second  rewards card, you can pay using the Barclays card, then wait a few days to check whether the cashback tracks. If it doesn’t, use the go back in time feature and put the transaction on the other card. You have 30 days to do the gbit.

Bridlington1

ForumUser7 said:

Sorry all, 1 more question - if I spent £280 on my Barclays card for example, I would get £14 cashback at 5% if it wasn’t a £10 cap. Presumably due to the £10 cap, I would get the £10 rather than nothing (due to having gone over the cap)?

I’d previously heard from Barclays (but I suspect it is wrong) say for example I spent £100, and got £5 cash back, and then went onto spend another £100 I would get another £5. However if my second transaction exceeded £100, I would in fact get nothing for it as I would’ve exceeded the £10 cap if it was paid.

Your suspicions are correct. If you spent £280 on your Barclays card in one month, so long as the transactions were qualifying ones, you'd earn £10 cashback for that month rather than nothing. 

granta

I can see I've been awarded the £10 cashback today. It's listed in the App under Barclays Cashback Rewards rather than the Blue Rewards. Sill question, but how do I move it to my current account?  When I click on Redeem, it takes me to an external webpage.

friolento

granta said:

I can see I've been awarded the £10 cashback today. It's listed in the App under Barclays Cashback Rewards rather than the Blue Rewards. Sill question, but how do I move it to my current account?  When I click on Redeem, it takes me to an external webpage.

That's where you redeem it. It takes a day or two for the money to arrive in your Barclays current account. During that time, you can't see your £10 anywhere.

The system Barclays use for this looks much like the Natwest/RBS Rewards redemption system which works reliably if slowly.

granta

friolento said:

granta said:

I can see I've been awarded the £10 cashback today. It's listed in the App under Barclays Cashback Rewards rather than the Blue Rewards. Sill question, but how do I move it to my current account?  When I click on Redeem, it takes me to an external webpage.

That's where you redeem it. It takes a day or two for the money to arrive in your Barclays current account. During that time, you can't see your £10 anywhere.

The system Barclays use for this looks much like the Natwest/RBS Rewards redemption system which works reliably if slowly.

Thanks. For some reason the page wasn't loading so I thought it might be an error. I will try later.
Does it make you login to your account?

I don't use the Natwest one so not come across anything like this before! just assumed it would be simple like redeeming the Blue Rewards.