List Of Shopping Portals

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The List Of Shopping Portals

I’m breaking the list into two sections: airline and non-airline portals.

The airline portals all have a lot of details in common while the others are more idiosyncratic.

Non-airline Portals

These portals are mostly stand-alone portals from a specfic website or app, and they all have different terms.

I’ll give the important details for each: the sign-up bonus, the minimum cash out, and the redemption methods.

Acorns Portal

Acorns is primarily a brokerage that lets you automatically invest spare change, but they do have a shopping portal. This is only available for people who have an Acorns account which has a monthly fee.

The amount earned will be added to your investments.

The rates are a bit on the low side and it probably doesn’t make sense to sign up for Acorns just to use the portal.

For more on Acorns see this post.

There’s almost always some bonus. Currently, it’s $5 and requires a $5 investment.

No minimum. Whatever amount you earn will be added to your Acorns account.

The cash back will be added to your Acorns account.

Capital One Shopping

You don’t have to have a Capital One account or card to use the Capital One Shopping portal (though they will advertise their cards sometimes ). In addition to the base cash back the site features coupons and deals heavily, and as far as I can tell some of the deals are not available elsewhere.

There’s both a site and an app, and sometimes the rates are different between the two. Also, the portal will sometimes send you better deals based on things you were looking at.

There’s one rather unique and interesting feature of this platform: price protection. If you sign up and allow them to link your email account they automatically scan for shopping receipts. If they find that an item you purchased has fallen in price within 30 days of buying, they file a claim on your behalf to get the difference back.

Only Gmail, Yahoo!, and Outlook email accounts are linkable though, and you do have to give them access to read your emails. They say that they only read receipt emails.

(Capital One Shopping seems to have ended its referral program for now. They offered a huge bonus of $200 for both referrer and referee, then stopped the program shortly after, so I think the amount might have been an accident on their part. Hopefully, it will restart soon.)

Right now there’s no offer, but in the past it’s been $30, $40, or even $200! I’d wait until there’s a new offer to join.

Varies by gift card chosen. Some are $5, but others are $10 or more.

A selection of gift cards. Getting cash isn’t an option with this one.

Dollar Dig

Dollar Dig is a shopping portal that offers the typical mix of cash back, paid offers, and coupons. Generally the offers pend for 90 days before crediting, but some offers have their own terms.

The cash out minimum is a bit high, but I have found strong cash back rates here on some useful websites.

None currently known

$25

Paypal, Dwolla, Check(US), Amazon gift card(US)

Dosh

While the Dosh app is primarily a source of card-linked offers, it does also have some stores listed in a portal.

To take advantage of the offers you have to link at least one debit or credit card. But that’s a good idea anyway because Dosh is one of the best card-linked offer programs. It’s entirely passive once it’s set up, and you’ll automatically get cash back at participating stores when using linked cards.

As far as the portal goes there are not a ton of stores offered, but the ones that are there have decent cash back rates.

No current bonus, referral program is paused

$15

Bank transfer, Paypal, and Venmo

Ibotta

$5 after you submit your first receipt

$20

Gift cards, PayPal, bank transfer

Lolli

Lolli is interesting because you earn either cash or bitcoin. You decide which to earn when you sign up, and right now you can’t change it later.

Lolli has both a site and an app. On both, they have a shopping portal alongside some card-linked offers.

In the app, there’s also a daily check-in to earn small amounts of money.

$5 once you make your first purchase through the portal

$15 in USD or bitcoin

Either a cash or bitcoin withdrawal

Payce

Payce used to have more card-linked offers than portal stores, but they’ve discontinued the card-linked offers. Since the change, I would say some of the rates are strong, and I’ve seen some exclusive offers here too. It’s worth checking out.

The payment options are unique, though I haven’t taken advantage of the different choices myself and can’t say what it’s like.

There’s usually no bonus for creating an account, though $5 and $10 has been offered in the past.

$10

Paypal, Venmo, bank account transfer, and donations, as well as two very unusual options: paying a debt in collections and paying a bill directly. Apparently, they’ll look up the service provider and allow you to make a payment.

Rakuten

No list of shopping portals would be complete without Rakuten.

Rakuten is one of the most well-known and well-established portals. It’s available on as both a site and an app, and it has an extensive collection of stores.

The rates are usually competitive and the cash tracking system is straightforward. A unique feature of Rakuten is the ability to cash out in American Express points if you connect an American Express card. It could be useful if you’re trying to build up Amex points.

They almost always have some kind of referral sign-up bonus going. Periodically they offer a $40 bonus.

There’s usually a sign-up bonus but the amount varies. Right now it’s $40, which you’ll receive after spending $40 cumulative on shopping trips through the portal. Basically, the Rakuten promo lets you get a certain amount of free stuff.

$5.01 within each earning period. If you don’t make enough to cash out it will be carried over into the next period.

There are three ways to cash out: Checks, PayPal, and American Express points (if you have an American Express card). Cash outs take place every three months on a set schedule.

RebatesMe

RebatesMe offers high rates and frequent bonus double rates on a number of useful stores. The purchases track quickly but it takes several months on average for earnings to be credited.

They charge an inactivity fee of $1.99 per month if your account hasn’t earned any cash back in the last year. It’s charged to the account balance until it reaches $0.

There’s usually one offered and the amount varies. The standard offer is $10, but it’s possible to get $40 (I did!). They require you to earn $10 in cash back through their site within a year of signing up.

$10

They offer gift cards, checks, Paypal, and intriguingly, credit cards as payment methods for getting your earnings.

RetailMeNot

The great thing about RetailMeNot is that it’s faster than average and it’s simple. Instead of saving up cash back earnings, it’s possible to withdraw each time you earn anything. They pay out real cash so there’s no deciding on gift cards.

For me, it took about a month and a half to credit earnings.

There’s an inactivity fee after 12 months of no cash back earned. It’s $2 each month and will not cause your account to go below $0.

There’s usually no sign-up bonus for RetailMeNot, but currently, I think they’re offering a bonus of $5 to new users. This promo should last until 6/04/24.

$5.01. The cash back needs to be redeemed from your rewards balance.

Paypal or Venmo

Swagbucks Shopping Portal

Signing up for Swagbucks itself will net you 1000SB ($10). To get the bonus you need to purchase $25 or more through the Swagbucks shopping portal. There’s no separate sign-up for the portal page.

$1 for Amazon, $5 for Paypal. The amount varies by method.

A ton of different choices. Store gift cards, or direct cash to Paypal or a bank account.

Tada

Tada is both a shopping portal and a receipt-scanning app. The receipt scanning part works on the same system as Swagbucks magic receipts, if you’re familiar with that.

When I first signed up for Tada I thought the selection of stores for the portal was extremely limited. I only saw about 10 and I debated about including this portal on the list at all.

I didn’t notice the All Stores button at the top until a couple of days later.

So don’t be like me, either click on the link to see what stores are listed or search for them in the search bar.

$10 after buying $25 worth through a portal store. I was also offered $2 for redeeming a receipt offer and $3 for linking a store account and scanning the first receipt.

$20

Paypal, gift cards, virtual mastercard

TopCashback

TopCashback is one of my favorite portals. They usually offer high rates and have frequent promos that boost the rates even more. Cashing out is simple and you can get real money if you like. When I’ve had a problem with tracking they were willing to help. The only negative is that it takes earnings a while to become payable, usually on the scale of months.

TopCashback usually offers a sign-up bonus if you go through a referral, but the amount varies by promo. When I signed up the promo was $35, and right now the highest I see is $15.  Generally, they require you to earn $10 in cash back on the site before the bonus is awarded.

Varies by redemption method, but for Paypal it’s $0.01.

Numerous store gift cards, Paypal, Visa gift cards, and bank transfers are all offered.

Airline Portals

Most airlines run their very own shopping portals. Airline portals all work in pretty much the same way. They earn miles on a given airline’s loyalty program, and their redemption methods are same as that program’s.

Because they are all so similar I’m not going to give many details for them. I don’t want my list of shopping portals to be more repetitive than it has to be.

Instead I’ll list the program, which airline it’s attached to, and give a link.

Many of the airline portals offer occasional sign-up bonuses, so you might want to wait until a promo to sign up. The best way to know about the promos is to sign up for the airline’s email newsletter.

There’s also sometimes a separate promo for downloading their “button”, the browser add-on that activates automatically. So once you join you might want to wait on the button until they make an offer.

AAdvantage eShopping

This is the American Airlines portal. I don’t think they usually offer any sign-up bonus.

They pretty routinely offer specials and seem to have some of the highest rates. They also have a wide selection of stores.

Alaska Mileage Plan Shopping

This portal earns Alaskan Airlines miles and has some good rates. I don’t know of any sign-up bonuses.

British Airways Executive Club Portal

This one is the shopping portal for British Airways. I’m not aware of any sign-up bonuses.

I thought the selection might be slim for United States-based stores but I was wrong. There’s a wide selection with good rates.

Rapid Rewards Shopping

This is the portal for Southwest Airlines. As you would expect you can earn Rapid Rewards miles on purchases.

I don’t know of any sign-up bonuses.

TrueBlue Shopping

This is the shopping portal for jetBlue airlines.

In addition to the portal, they also have a list of card-linked offers, which you can find on the same site.

I don’t know of any sign-up bonuses.

United MileagePlus Shopping

This portal is for United Airlines.

They seem to have a regular sign-up bonus of 500 miles for spending $25 or more within 2 weeks. The bonus is 1000 for United credit card holders, which mimics the better rates that card holders get in the portal.

There’s a good selection of stores and the portal is easy to use.

List of Shopping Portals – Conclusion

Hopefully, you found some useful portals you didn’t know about yet.

Portals are fairly easy to use, and a good way to start getting more money back on your online purchases. If you haven’t used them before, just start with one and try it. If you already use portals keep an eye out for new rates or rarer stores. The cashbackmonitor.com site is great for comparison.

This page will keep growing over time as I add new portals.

Some places on my list of shopping portals also have card-linked offer programs, but I wanted to keep the focus of this page on the portals themselves.

Like always, feel free to comment or make suggestions.

Thanks for reading!