Do purchases with a "convenience charge" count towards SUB?

[AnimatorProcrastinator]

I have a gold Delta Amex card with the $3,000 in 4 months for 60,000 miles offer. I'm already at $2,000, and i'm thinking of paying some tuition in order to reach $3,000 quickly. However, when I go to pay the tuition with a CC, it of course shows that I have to pay the convenience charge (AKA paying the swipe fee for them). I have no issue paying the extra $10 or whatever to be able to use my Amex. My question is, will Amex count this towards my SUB if I have to pay the convenience charge? Maybe this doesn't matter at all, just wondering. 

[Anonymous]

Yes, it will count towards your minimum spend. 

[Anonymous]

The fee is added to the original charge so it's part of the charge.  Amex doesn't know that it's a $1000 tuition bill plus a $10 "convenience fee"... they just see a charge for $1010.

So yes, it should apply toward your SUB.

[K-in-Boston]

Absolutely!  I charge my kids' extremely expensive private school tuition each month because the rewards outweigh the fee.  Same for my electric bill which charges a small fee, and my gas bill during the winter (but not in the summer when the fee would end up being like 8-10%). Also tax season works if the fee is low enough. FWIW the tuition payments I make (and all ancillary charges for after-school, catering, fundraisers, etc.) are billed separately from the convenience charges.  Without doing this, there's no way I'd be able to do things like $75k annual spend on SPG Luxury and having multiple $5,000 signup bonuses to hit at once.

[Anonymous]

I do the same thing with my daughters pre k tuition. Easy to get squeeze more big sign up spends in. And I can change on line every month.

Also my work allows me to change online now my check gets direct deposited so I can slice and dice the money to many banks. Makes it very easy to do bank sign up bonuses.

Another trick is you can fund a PNC bank account with up to 2k from a credit card charge.