Update 9/28/23: Some people are now seeing increased offers when referring people to the Capital One Shopping portal. My referral link offers $50, but apparently some referrals are giving as high as $60. h/t DoC
The Deal
- Refer someone to the Capital One Shopping portal and both you & the referee earn $30-$60.
- My referral link (we’ll both earn $50).
Key Terms
- To qualify for a referral sign up bonus, your refer-ee must be a new Capital One Shopping user, sign up and install the Capital One Shopping desktop computer or mobile browser extension via your referral link, and make Qualifying Purchase(s) totaling $10 within 30 days of signing up.
- Limit $300 in referral earnings.
- A Qualifying Purchase means a purchase via Capital One Shopping that earns Capital One Shopping Rewards.
- By participating in the referral program, you are telling your refer-ee that you’re a Capital One Shopping customer.
- Bonuses will be automatically applied to your account and your refer-ee’s account within 30 days after satisfying these requirements, but issuance may be delayed during the determination of whether a Qualifying Purchase has been made by a new user.
- You may only earn bonuses for a limited number of referrals per referral period.
- Bonuses will be awarded as Capital One Shopping Rewards, and are subject to the Capital One Shopping Terms of Service.
Tips & Ideas
I don’t normally post about the various different limited time shopping portal referral bonuses unless they’re particularly notable. With this latest Capital One Shopping offer I wanted to post about it for a few reasons though.
First, they’re now offering an increased referral bonus for both sides of $30 when the person you refer signs up, installs the browser extension and spends $10. I think their referral program is fairly new and up until now had only offered $20 per referral, so this is 50% more. The requirement to only have to spend $10 (rather than earn $10 cashback) makes it easy to do as they can presumably buy a $10 gift card from Giftcards.com or GiftCardMall to trigger that.
A second great feature of the portal/browser extension is that they frequently offer increased cashback rates on a targeted basis. Sometimes those are sent via email, but other times you’ll find those by clicking on the ‘Filters’ button on the home page and then doing a search of the ‘Merchant’s list from the subsequent dropdown.
A third reason I’ve been loving Capital One Shopping in recent months is because it often tracks – and subsequently pays out on – transactions that don’t work with other portals. That can be of particular interest for this site’s focus as it can make certain deals profitable that might’ve previously been break even, such as when you take advantage of Amex Offers. There’s never any guarantee that Capital One Shopping will track and pay out on those types of transactions, so I always count it as a bonus when it works. But there have been a number of bonuses along the way.
1) No – using the Capital One Shopping portal is independent of being a cardholder
2) No – you can pay with any card