American Express has a promo, which Public Mobile customers can take advantage of. Only AmEx cards issued by American Express Bank are eligible (i.e. not Scotiabank issued AmEx, etc.).
If your plan is $30+ every 30 days (after awards and taxes), you can just let AutoPay occur for 3 cycles (last cycle must occur before 2020/03/31) to satisfy the promo requirements for a $10 AmEx statement credit. Otherwise (e.g. if you're on a $10, $15, or $25 plan, or you have multiple rewards that bring your bill to under $30/30 days), you can accelerate the process by doing 3 manual top-ups (on the same account, or spread across different accounts using the same card) of at least $30 after taxes.
Follow these steps:
- Register your AmEx card from your online account or the AmEx app (if the offer appears under "My Offers" or "Amex Offers"). If you don't see the offer in your account, you can still register online using this link.
- Log into your PM account in the self-serve portal.
- Click on the "Make a Payment" button, and add (or replace your existing CC with) your AmEx card using the "Manage Credit Card" link that's there.
That's it... wait 3 billing cycles, and you should receive your $10 credit after the last one posts. Or, if you don't want to wait and would prefer to accelerate things (and are willing to spend ~$90+ now):
- Complete the steps above.
- Under Payment, select "One Time Payment".
- Ensure the shown credit card corresponds to your AmEx.
- For Payment Type, select Other (Enter the desired payment amount), then enter the amount you want for top-up. For example, in AB, I chose $29 because $29+5% GST = $30.45. If you have 13% HST, you might want $27 so that your total is $30.51. The system will calculate your applicable taxes and display the total to be charged.
- Click "Submit", and funds will be added to your account.
- Repeat from the same account, if you wish, or if you manage more PM accounts, you may want to top those up in the same manner.
- As a last step (optional), I replaced the AmEx with my original CC, and did a $1.00 top-up, just to make sure my original CC will successfully be used when available funds are depleted and AutoPay kicks in again.
Note that you don't forfeit the $2/30d AutoPay rewards as long as a credit card is registered, even if you have adequate funds in your account.
Please find/read the promo details in the fine-print at the bottom of the sign-up page, and the full disclcosure and terms of the AmEx promos here. First 50,000 AmEx cards to register are eligible to participate.
