Ink Business Cash℠ Credit Card Review (2025.11 Update: $750 Offer; New Bonus Restriction)
2025.11 Update: The $900 offer is expired.Currently there’s only a 75k offer.
BTW, there’s a new bonus restriction on this card: “The new cardmember bonus may not be available to you if you have ever had this card or any other Chase for Business card without an annual fee.” HT: DDG.
2025.9 Update: The $900 offer comes back.
2023.9 Update: There’s a $900 offer link now, act fast before it dies! HT: DoC.[Update] The official offer is now also $900.
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Benefits
- $750 offer: earn $750 bonus cash back after spending $6,000 within the first 3 months of card membership.The recent best offer is 90k.
- Although this card is advertised as a cash back card, it actually earns UR points.We estimate that Ultimate Rewards (UR) points are worth about 1.6 cents/point, see below for a brief introduction.
So the 75k sign-up bonus could be worth about $1,200.
- Earn 5x UR per $1 spent on the first $25,000 spent in combined purchases at office supply stores and on cellular phone, landline, internet and cable TV services each account anniversary year. If you have a business that can max out these categories, that’s 125,000 UR per year!
- Earn 2x UR on gas and restaurant on the first $25,000 spent each year.Earn unlimited 1x UR per $1 spent on all other purchases.
- Purchase Protection – Covers your new purchases for up to 120 days against damage or theft up to $10,000 per claim and $50,000 per account.
- Primary car rental insurance.HOWEVER, unless you can prove that you are traveling on business (which you will be required to do in the case of a claim), you will be better using the primary car rental insurance on the Chase Sapphire Preferred or the Chase Sapphire Reserve.
- Refer a friend: You can earn 10,000 bonus UR points for every approved account you refer, up to a maximum of 5 approved referrals (50,000 UR points) per calendar year.
- No annual fee.
Disadvantages
- It has foreign transaction fee, so it's not a good choice outside the US.
Introduction to UR Points
One of the best way to use UR points is to 1:1 transfer to Hyatt points.UR points can also be transferred to some airline miles.One of the most common and best way to use UR points is to 1:1 transfer them to United Airlines (UA) miles (Star Alliance), and combine them with the UA miles earned from the UA card.Other good options are: Southwest (WN) (Non-alliance), British Airways (BA) (Oneworld), Virgin Atlantic (VS) (Non-alliance), etc.
If you use UR points in this way, the value is about 1.6 cents/point.
Recommended Application Time
- [5/24 Rule] If you have 5 or more new accounts opened in the past 24 months, Chase will not approve your application on this card, no matter how high your credit score is.The number of new accounts includes all credit card accounts, not only Chase accounts.See this post for details about how to possibly bypass this rule.
- You are not eligible for this sign-up bonus if you received a sign-up bonus on this card within 24 months.Note that what this 24-month clock starts from when you last got the sign-up bonus, not the time you open the account or close the account.
[Correction] There is no such rule for Chase Ink series!
- [New] The new cardmember bonus may not be available to you if you have ever had this card or any other Chase for Business card without an annual fee
- Don’t apply for more than 1 Chase business credit cards within 30 days, it’s highly likely that you will get rejected.
- We recommend that you apply for this card after you have had a credit history for more than a year.
Summary
The sign-up bonus is really nice considering it is just a no fee card.Also it is a good card to earn 5x UR.
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After Applying
Be prepared to be asked about a lot of details of how your business operates.
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