How to double your points with every dollar you spend

Australians love their points, and they love to travel. No surprise, that so many Aussies rely on their credit cards to collect points for booking flights, upgrades and hotel stays.

Of course, it takes time and patience to build your stockpile of points that way – especially when most cards only earn you around one point per dollar spent.

If you want to earn more points faster, you’ll want to use the surprisingly little-known trick of ‘double dipping’.

As the name indicates, double-dipping lets you earn points twice on the same purchase, even while using your regular credit card.

Think of it as stacking one serve of points on top of another.

That’s the premise of Passport Rewards, which links shoppers to thousands of retailers across 21 countries.

You still use the same card as always, and shop with the same retailers as you usually would.

But with Passport Rewards, each swipe of your credit card earns many more ‘bonus’ points than you might expect.

Power up your points with Passport Rewards

Passport Rewards is free to join, and when you shop at a participating Passport Rewards retailer – which can be a supermarket, fashion or beauty shop, or an electronics store — you can earn points twice over.

There’s the usual serve of points from your credit card: points which may be issued by an airline, bank or credit card company.

On top of this, you also earn Passport Points – which can be converted into the points and miles of many airline and hotel loyalty programs (including Accor hotels, Air Canada, Air France, Cathay Pacific, Etihad and more).

And many partners offer 2, 3 or even 4 Passport Points per dollar.

So a $200 online shop can earn not just the same handful of credit card points you’d normally expect, but also a significant top-up in Passport Points – bringing that next flight or holiday closer.

Unlocking the power of points 

With the worst of winter behind us and summer on the way, you decide to spring into fitness with a new pair of running shoes: $200 spent at Passport Rewards partner Puma lands you as many as 800 Passport Points.

$120 spent on sports supplements at Passport Rewards partner Elite Supplements gives you up to 480 Passport Points.

That $190 pair of sunglasses from Vision Direct is worth up to 760 Passport Points.

Refreshing your casual work wardrobe at M.J. Bale? $300 on a new pair of chinos and three shirts equals up to 750 Passport Points.

A $120 bottle of your favourite fragrance from Myer adds up to 300 Passport Points.

$80 on a bag of premium dog food or cat food from VetSupply or Jumbo Pets is up to 160 Passport Points.

$300 on a quick Sydney-Melbourne trip with Virgin Australia? That’s 150 Passport Points.

Just from those examples, you’ve earned up to 3,400 Passport Points in addition to the usual airline or bank reward points of your credit card.

And with over 300 retail partners in Australia – also including Woolworths, BWS, Bing Lee, Guess, Breville, Lenovo, and many more – you can begin to appreciate how effective double-dipping is.

Passport Rewards even offers a unique accelerator to boost your monthly earnings as much as twelve-fold.

Isn’t it time you put your points earning on the fast track?

Join Passport Rewards today – it’s free, and you’ll receive 500 Passport Points as a starter bonus.

This article was produced in collaboration with Passport Rewards.