CardMatch is a tool that is offered by creditcards.com, it’s supposed to show you all of the pre-approved and targeted offers you currently have. The problem is that it only shows cards from issuers that they have an affiliate relationship with (meaning if you get approved, they get paid). CardMatch often shows offers that don’t show up anywhere else, so it’s definitely something worth checking on a regular basis. That being said, you should also check the pre-approval links from each card issuer separately as well.
Here is a story from reader Bryan which does a good job of illustrating this point:
When I used the Cardmatch tool, American Express cards didn’t even show up. When I used the American Express link to check for pre-qualified offers, I had the bonus 50k on the American Express Premier Rewards Gold Card when you sign up and spend $1k in 3 months. I applied and was approved within a few hours.
Me and my mom checked the other day and she had both the 100k Platinum and 50k Gold offers on Cardmatch. My wife didn’t have any Amex offers on Cardmatch but we get a 50k standard Platinum offer every time we sign on to online billing down in the Offers section
As you can see, different people in his immediate family had different offers from different sources. It’s always a good idea to check regularly for this offers, because you never know what will show up. To make things easier for you we created this resource page which lists all of the pre-approval/targeted offer links for each card issuer.
