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Got a new feature on my BCE. Send & Split.
Send money to friends and family using your Amex card. No fee, but no rewards. One thing that's not clear is whether interest accrues on the transaction.
Split the cost of a gift among family and friends. Amex will handle payment processing.
T's & C's
Says subject to APR, but not sure it applies when you PIF. Probably does, but who knows.
Send & Split
*PayPal may charge a fee when sending to non-US recipients
Amex Send & Split™ (“Send & Split“) is only available in the American Express® App (“Amex App”) to Card Members with an eligible Card. Eligible Cards are US-issued Basic Consumer Cards that are issued by American Express National Bank and are not cancelled. Prepaid Cards, American Express Corporate Cards, American Express Small Business Cards, American Express-branded cards or account numbers issued by other financial institutions and American Express Cards issued outside of the United States are not eligible Cards. To use Send & Split, you must first have an email address on file, enroll in Send & Split in your American Express Online Account (“Online Account”) and open an Amex Send™ stored balance account in the Amex App (“Send Account”). Send & Split allows you to: (i) send a person-to-person payment from your Send Account to Venmo and PayPal users (“Send”) and (ii) split a Card purchase (“Split”) and receive funds to your Card account as a statement credit or to your linked Venmo or PayPal account. You may use Send & Split with an Additional consumer Card that is issued in the US by American Express National Bank and is not cancelled if you also have an eligible Card in the same Online Account and that Online Account is enrolled in Send & Split. You must have or create an account with Venmo or PayPal and link your Online Account to your PayPal or Venmo account to use Send & Split. You must add money to your Send Account from your eligible Card(s) to Send to a Venmo or PayPal recipient. The money you add will be reflected in your Send Account balance. The charge on your Card for an Add Money transaction does not earn rewards and is subject to the Card’s purchase APR. Once the Send from your Send Account is available in the recipient’s Venmo or PayPal account, you do not have the ability to cancel the transaction. There is no fee to Send to US recipients. PayPal charges a fee to Send to non-US recipients. With Split, you can split pending or posted purchases that are made with your eligible Card in your Amex App. Once you select a purchase to Split, select the contacts you want to request to Split with. You can choose to get paid back as a statement credit to your Card account (a Split credit) or to your linked Venmo or PayPal account. Split credits to your Card account apply when we receive confirmation that the Split request was completed but may take 24-36 hours to post to your Card account. You are still responsible to pay the full purchase amount charged to your Card, regardless of whether you are paid back via Split. You earn rewards for purchases that you split in the same way that you earn rewards for other purchases. Other eligibility and restrictions apply. For complete details visit https://www.americanexpress.com/content/dam/amex/us/services/peer-to-peer/send-and-split/terms-and-c... to view Terms & Conditions. Send Account issued by American Express National Bank.
There's no interest unless you carry over statements
It's a quite nice feature
It even lets me draw on my AU Plat card, up to 4k per rolling 30-day period. Other personal cards have a 2k rolling limit, though.
Great for free cash float if you have someone to move money via Venmo/PP with you.
@Anonymous wrote:There's no interest unless you carry over statements
It's a quite nice feature
It even lets me draw on my AU Plat card, up to 4k per rolling 30-day period. Other personal cards have a 2k rolling limit, though.
Great for free cash float if you have someone to move money via Venmo/PP with you.
OK, great so if you PIF monthly and continue to do so, you can use this feature without cost. A bit more robust than Discover's 💸 over feature.
Go the email about this just now, although it was attached to my Gold card and haven't logged in to see if it's available on others.
Neat feature, not sure if it's beneficial as Discovers cash back at checkout. Sound ike you can only send Money to fmaily/Friends, not yourself.
@Anonymous wrote:Go the email about this just now, although it was attached to my Gold card and haven't logged in to see if it's available on others.
Neat feature, not sure if it's beneficial as Discovers cash back at checkout. Sound ike you can only send Money to fmaily/Friends, not yourself.
Yeah, looking at it more like using the card for cash, which very few outside credit union cards are good for that.
It worked once for me (loading the Send account from AMEX app and then paying someone not in my contact list in Venmo). The second time I tried this and my transaction kept being declined. It said if I had loaded I needed to call AMEX to "unlock" my account. I just sent money another way and then refunded the load to my card.
@MASTERNC wrote:It worked once for me (loading the Send account from AMEX app and then paying someone not in my contact list in Venmo). The second time I tried this and my transaction kept being declined. It said if I had loaded I needed to call AMEX to "unlock" my account. I just sent money another way and then refunded the load to my card.
Good old software glitches on new features.