The Citi AAdvantage Executive Card now offers up to $200 in annual InKind dining credits, split into two $100 halves. Here's how to activate it and why I love InKind.
No. One. Asked. For. This.
For me, it's useful (presuming they get it working). I've already set up an account there because there is one restaurant in town that pops on Resy, and so this is...$200/yr in free food?
[Paying those bills is always a bit of a farce. $20 onto one Amex, $20 onto another, and heaven help me if I got a Platinum...I frankly tip the staff a bit extra because of all that.]
I added my advantage executive card and do not see the $100 credit. really disappointing that something seems so easy but doesn’t work
I already had my Citi Exec in my inKind wallet. Since there was no $100 credit, I deleted the card and added it again. Nope. Also set it as the default. Still nada. The screen to add a card even has an image promoting this new benefit, yet it clearly doesn’t work reliably.
Thank you Ben. It worked for me. Takes a minute for the credit to show up, but it’s there.
Here is my referral code if anyone wants to pay it forward and help the little guy.
https://app.inkind.com/refer/ZCXGVS7Z
InKind cash back is no longer flat 20%, it is less 10% on weekends.
Honestly, I mostly just buy discounted gift cards with Costco and load them. I don't carry much of an excess balance (generally sub-$100) but it's easy enough to re-stock at-will.
Worked for me. Added card and $100 in credits appeared. Will be very easy for me to use this.
I loaded the Citi card onto my account five minutes ago. It looks like it's already good to go.
This is less of a coupon book PITA than a lot of other things, and if I had to guess this will cover the "gratuity" side of a dinner or two.
I've never heard of InKind. What is it?
Any response would not do you justice. The most relevant and comprehensive answer is found via a Google search or Ben's review article.
@ Jason -- You can find my review here:
https://onemileatatime.com/guides/inkind-dining-app/
Do you have to use the whole $100 in one go?
I have the Citi World Elite card, not the World Legend one.... I downloaded the app, added my card.... nada. Any insight into the reason why no credits are showing? Other than the card difference
@ Mark N -- Just to clarify, you have the Citi AAdvantage Executive Card, and not another Citi AAdvantage card?
UPDATE: The bonus of $100 credit came thru into my account about 6 hours after setting up my new inKind account.
FYI, this didn't work for me last night (after creating an InKind account and adding my card), so I deleted and re-added my card this morning and now I see the credit. YMMV but for those of you who didn't get the credit added, delete and try again.
Thanks for flagging! I wonder if Citi noticed cancellation rates after the last "enhancement" and decided to throw people a bone.
I hit 48 months since SUB in early October, so cancelling the card felt like a duty. I'm out of the country until February, so hopefully this credit is available when I come back to sign up.
Feels like they're just replacing the Grubhub $10 monthly credit (which they announced was going way) with, in this case, something better.
Yeah, the card needed some more makeup. You know what else needs some F-me lipstick? The Strata elite. It should get the in-kind benefit too. At least $100. CSE is just a sad card man. And anyone who disagrees is lying to themselves, and would be better off spending the $600 CSE fee on an Airbnb Luxe stay with the Amex platinum. At least then they can sufficiently be deluded into having a special card.
Til next time, take care of yourselves and each other.
The AA Exec card serves two primary purposes - Admirals Club access and an easier pathway to AA status. You either value those things or you do not. If you do value them, AA/Citi just handed you a $200 credit (feel free to value it at $130 or whatever if you can buy $100 worth of inKind credits for $64.99, but it's still $200 that's easy to use at 10,000+ locations - my local coffee shop and pizza place take inKind, this is not even something you need to sit down for a meal for).
The Citi Strata Elite - I agree with you unless you are someone that is constantly spending a lot of money eating out Friday and Saturday night. Otherwise 4 AA passes + PP is astonishingly little to offer. The only point of putting up with coupons is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow - which for me is either lounge access or status related (even the low level hotel status through Amex Plat / ChaseSR has a value).
Either you value lounge access and status or you don't. But that's the ballgame for most of these high AF cards. (And if you can put up with Bilt's incompetence, the potential for 3x points on unbonused spend.)