physixfan      2023-09-22     2024-09-07 22 Comments

Ink Business Cash℠ Credit Card‎ Review

2024.3 Update: The $900 offer is expired. The current offer is $750.

2023.9 Update: There’s a $900 offer link now, act fast before it dies! HT: DoC. [Update] The official offer is now also $900.

2022.10 Update: The offer is now $900, and it is the best ever offer on this card.

Application Link

• Chase Ink Cash

Benefits

1. $750 offer: earn $750 bonus cash back after spending $6,000 within the first 3 months of card membership. The recent best offer is 90k.
2. Although this card is advertised as a cash back card, it actually earns UR points. We estimate that Ultimate Rewards (UR) points are worth about 1.6 cents/point, see below for a brief introduction. So the 75k sign-up bonus could be worth about $1,200.
3. Earn 5x UR per $1 spent on the first $25,000 spent in combined purchases at office supply stores and on cellular phone, landline, internet and cable TV services each account anniversary year. If you have a business that can max out these categories, that’s 125,000 UR per year!
4. Earn 2x UR on gas and restaurant on the first $25,000 spent each year. Earn unlimited 1x UR per $1 spent on all other purchases.
5. Purchase Protection – Covers your new purchases for up to 120 days against damage or theft up to $10,000 per claim and $50,000 per account.
6. Primary car rental insurance. HOWEVER, unless you can prove that you are traveling on business (which you will be required to do in the case of a claim), you will be better using the primary car rental insurance on the Chase Sapphire Preferred or the Chase Sapphire Reserve.
7. [Limited Time] Earn 5x UR points on Lyft, until March 2025. Here is the official link for this promotion.
8. Refer a friend: You can earn 10,000 bonus UR points for every approved account you refer, up to a maximum of 5 approved referrals (50,000 UR points) per calendar year.
9. No annual fee.

Disadvantages

1. It has foreign transaction fee, so it's not a good choice outside the US.

Introduction to UR Points

• You can earn UR points with Chase Freedom Student, Chase Freedom, Chase Freedom Unlimited (CFU), Chase Sapphire Preferred (CSP), Chase Sapphire Reserve (CSR), Chase Ink Cash (Business), Chase Ink Unlimited (Business), Chase Ink Preferred (Business), etc.
• You can move your UR points from one UR card to another at any time.
• UR points never expire. You will lose the UR points on one card if you close the account, but you can prevent losing your UR points by moving the points to another UR card beforehand.
• If you have Chase Sapphire Preferred (CSP), Chase Sapphire Reserve (CSR), or Chase Ink Preferred (Business), UR points can be transferred to some hotel points. One of the best way to use UR points is to 1:1 transfer to Hyatt points. UR points can also be transferred to some airline miles. One of the most common and best way to use UR points is to 1:1 transfer them to United Airlines (UA) miles (Star Alliance), and combine them with the UA miles earned from the UA card. Other good options are: Southwest (WN) (Non-alliance), British Airways (BA) (Oneworld), Virgin Atlantic (VS) (Non-alliance), etc. If you use UR points in this way, the value is about 1.6 cents/point.
• If you have Chase Sapphire Reserve (CSR), you can redeem your UR points at a fixed rate 1.5 cents/point towards air tickets or hotels on UR travel portal; if you have Chase Sapphire Preferred (CSP) or Chase Ink Preferred (Business), you can redeem your UR at a fixed rate 1.25 cents/point towards air tickets or hotels on UR travel portal.
• If you have any of the UR cards, you can redeem your UR points at a fixed rate 1 cent/point towards cash.
• In summary, we estimate that UR points are worth about 1.6 cents/point.
• For more information about UR points, see Maximize the Credit Card Points Values (overview), and Introduction to UR: How to Earn and Introduction to UR: How to Use (very detailed).

Recommended Application Time

1. [5/24 Rule] If you have 5 or more new accounts opened in the past 24 months, Chase will not approve your application on this card, no matter how high your credit score is. The number of new accounts includes all credit card accounts, not only Chase accounts. See this post for details about how to possibly bypass this rule.
2. You are not eligible for this sign-up bonus if you received a sign-up bonus on this card within 24 months. Note that what this 24-month clock starts from when you last got the sign-up bonus, not the time you open the account or close the account. [Correction] There is no such rule for Chase Ink series!
3. Don’t apply for more than 1 Chase business credit cards within 30 days, it’s highly likely that you will get rejected.
4. We recommend that you apply for this card after you have had a credit history for more than a year.

Summary

The sign-up bonus is really nice considering it is just a no fee card. Also it is a good card to earn 5x UR.

Related Credit Cards

• Chase Ink Cash (this post)
• Chase Ink Unlimited
• Chase Ink Preferred

After Applying

• Call 800-453-9719 to check Chase business cards application status. This is an automated telephone line, and the information has the following meanings: Receive decision in 2 weeks means your application is probably approved; Receive decision in 7-10 days means your application is probably rejected; Receive decision in 30 days simply means your application requires further review and there’s nothing to tell you for now.
• Chase reconsideration backdoor number: 888-270-2127 or 888-609-7805. It’s pretty hard to recon Chase business cards. Be prepared to be asked about a lot of details of how your business operates.

Historical Offers Chart

Application Link

• Chase Ink Cash

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