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Plastiq, the service that lets you pay bills online and charge them to a credit card, has a new referral program.
For each person you refer that makes a payment of $20 or more, you earn $400 worth of fee-free credit card payments to use yourself.
The person you refer will earn $200 in fee-free payments after they make their first $20+ payment as well. So they’re better off signing up through a referral link than signing up without one.
Through April 18 Plastiq has the lowest fee for paying taxes by MasterCard.
Paying bills via credit card can be useful for:
- Meeting minimum spend requirements for a signup bonus.
- Spending enough on a card to earn a spending threshold.
- Everyday spend, if you have the right card or if you need to top off for the right award.
Not to mention it can be useful for managing payments online, and to manage cash (paying a bill at the beginning of a card billing cycle, and paying the card’s bill before the due date).
Plastiq will let you pay an US or Canada business or person for any amount. The only restriction is that the payment has to be for a good or service. You can pay an individual person, for instance, if they’re your landlord and you’re paying them rent or if they are your contractor or landscaper.
Just don’t try to pay yourself, a spouse, or another person just to send money (a “peer to peer transfer”), that’s not allowed, and I’ve seen reports of some individuals receiving payment being asked for documentation that there was a bona fide good or service involved for which they’re being paid.
And note that Plastiq is in most cases mailing checks which have to be received and processed by the recipient so it’s not for last minute, urgent payments.
Here’s my referral link so that the first time you make a payment of $20 or more you’ll get the ability to pay $200 in bills with a credit card fee-free. Feel free to leave your referral link in the comments.
They will also give you $25 in fee-free payments if you post your referral code on Facebook or Twitter today, March 23, and tag Plastiq in your post.
To tag Plastiq in Facebook, use @Plastiq and select the Plastiq Facebook page in your status. To tag Plastiq in Twitter, use @payplastiq in your tweet. Please note that it can take up to one business day for the FFDs to be credited to your account.
Note that if you don’t use your fee-free credits, or earn more, for 90 days your credits expire.
First time using Plastiq! Thanks for the referral!! Here’s my referral link: https://try.plastiq.com/398575
Thanks in advance!!
Thanks for the article. I always wanted to use plastiq but the fee stopped me. Below is my referral link.
https://try.plastiq.com/398584
Thanks in advance
Here’s my referral link: https://try.plastiq.com/339858
Thank you, Gary, for giving us a chance to get some credit for this. Appreciate ALL that use my link 🙂
https://try.plastiq.com/396868
So if I join and make at least one $20 payment, could I use my $200 in fee-free payment to pay my taxes?
Here is my referral link
https://try.plastiq.com/398567
Thanks in advance
Here is another referral link. Thanks
https://try.plastiq.com/361646
Here is my referral link: https://try.plastiq.com/398630
Thanks y’all!
The fee-free is pretty awesome. Here’s my referral:
https://try.plastiq.com/297692
Thanks in advance! And thanks Gary for letting us post 🙂
Try Plastiq with my referral link, I’d appreciate it, thanks – https://try.plastiq.com/377319
Here is my referral link.
Here is my referral link:
https://try.plastiq.com/397748
Here is my link, thanks in advance for anyone that uses it!
https://try.plastiq.com/264149
Thank you for letting us know about the promotion. I plan to pay my taxes using it. Appreciate everyone that uses my link!
https://try.plastiq.com/398775
Here is mine! Thanks, everyone!
https://try.plastiq.com/398776
Thanks for the info! Here’s my link:
https://try.plastiq.com/398808
Heres another one in case someone still needs to pass on some love –
My referral link is https://try.plastiq.com/340490
Thanks!
Here is my referral link:
https://try.plastiq.com/399012
thanks
I did not see my fee free charges bonus when I signed up. Does it take a while for it to post?
Here is my referral link also:
https://try.plastiq.com/399138
I used a link from one of the readers above, someone please use my link to pay it forward.
Thanks
https://try.plastiq.com/399190
Jumping in the link party! Thanks in advance. https://try.plastiq.com/318917
Thanks, Gary. Here’s my link https://try.plastiq.com/291393
Here’s my referral!
https://try.plastiq.com/340664
Good luck and thanks!
Thanks, Gary, Here’s my referral link
https://try.plastiq.com/399933
I find Plastiq limiting and annoying to use. The new user interface is more clunky to use than the previous. When you set up an account to pay some of the important information is not there when you pay again. I also find it frustrating I can not pay same as can payments. I like purchasing items with a same as cash deal and then using gift cards which I get 5 pts per dollar to pay the bill. Evolve payment service on the other hand was easy to use. They kept all your payment information, they processed most payments electronically. I was able to pay my same as cash accounts. Now evolve had plenty of problems they limited how many payments you could make, They continued to change the rules to prevent fraud. The word part is they have now closed up shop. Plastiq is certainly a way to earn points, just does not work as well as Evolve did.
Used the referral link above. Would appreciate passing along the good will. Thank you.
https://try.plastiq.com/400032
Need to pay about $3000 a month in rent, the rental company accepts credit cards but with a fee, what’s the best strategy to use my card for this without having to pay the fee?
Thanks everyone! Let’s keep the conga line moving:
https://try.plastiq.com/398750
theBOAT
I just used theBOATs, please use mine if you’d like: https://try.plastiq.com/402811
https://try.plastiq.com/406500
Let’s keep it going:
https://try.plastiq.com/406503
Just signed up and made first payment using your referral link, Gary. Here’s mine in case anyone wants to pay it forward. Thanks!
https://try.plastiq.com/412292
Would appreciate someone using my referral link:
https://try.plastiq.com/401770
Still works.
https://try.plastiq.com/404009
Would appreciate if someone could use my link. Win win!
https://try.plastiq.com/410873
Signed up using your link Meg, would appreciate if someone used mine:
https://try.plastiq.com/416413
Thanks!
Want to pay utilities, mortgages, rent, loans etc and earn credit card rewards?
Sign up under my link below and you will get $200 of FFD.
https://try.plastiq.com/398992
For every person who registers with Plastiq via your referral link and makes a payment of at least $20, you’ll get an additional 400 Fee Free Dollars and that person will get 200 Fee Free Dollars as well.
https://try.plastiq.com/398992
Please use this link to signup Plastic, You will get 200 fee-free dollars after spending $20 in payments towards your bills ( New customers only)
https://try.plastiq.com/373722
Would appreciate someone using my referral link:
https://try.plastiq.com/455748
Please use my referral link- highly recommend Plastiq
https://try.plastiq.com/410873
Please use my link and then pay it forward!
https://try.plastiq.com/618300
If you have a business credit card, this sign up is much more lucrative. $2,500 Fee free dollars!
Sign up Link –
https://www.plastiq.com/cardholder_ui/password?referralCode=325801
My unique referral code is: 325801
Proof: http://imgur.com/nX8xtEw
Remember to use your BUSINESS credit card to set up a $100 payment.
This does work and I’ve been getting $2,500 FFD in referrals, Must use by the end of March.