My Tangerine Mastercard offers the following credit card email alerts:
- Remaining Credit Less Than $100.00
- Credit Card Payment Due
- Credit Card Transactions Over $1,000.00
- Money-Back Rewards Earned
- Credit Card Payment Received
- Money-Back Rewards Deposited
The alert I really want is “Your payment is due in a few business days, and we haven’t received anything yet.”
My wife tells me that her credit card offers this alert along with better cash-back rewards than I’m getting now. Maybe it’s time for me to dump my Tangerine credit card.
Tangerine let's you set up an automated payment for the full statement balance:
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You can access that through the "Move Money" function.
@Sebastien Benoit: Thanks for the info. I was trying to optimize interest by keeping most of my cash at EQ bank and not so much in my Tangerine account. Unfortunately, Tangerine doesn't permit automatic full payments from a non-Tangerine account. But maybe making sure there's enough money to cover the credit card in my Tangerine account is a better solution that what I've been doing.
DeleteTangerine used to be a good offering. But over time they've dropped interest rates and watered down the credit card rewards and raised the foreign transaction fee. I haven't closed my accounts with them yet, but I use them less and less as time goes on. A pity.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous: I agree. I'd like to see more fintech that doesn't get gobbled up by one of the big banks. I've been happy with EQ bank so far. Too bad they don't offer a way to get access to bank machines.
DeleteI have been guilty for forgetting to pay outstanding balance. So I devised a safety net which limits damage to interest alone: I have setup an automatic payment at due date of an estimated min payment.
ReplyDelete@AnatoliN: That's certainly better than forgetting the payment entirely like I did.
DeleteTangerine notifications are useless at best. I use Tangerine credit card as well, but only use it for regularly scheduled expenses - Transit, some bills, insurance payments, etc. This way I get 2% and can schedule regular payments to it. I have been burnt on this a few times in the past with different card companies. For adhoc expenses, I made a decision to not use credit cards from companies that don't provide sweep in from my chequeing account on that notes, Rogers offers a card that is close to Tangerine benefits and also offers automatc debit
ReplyDelete@Ran: I hadn't considered being strategic about which card I use in different contexts. It sounds like you've got that worked out.
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