[Expired] New American Express Authorized User Bonuses – List Of Offers & Everything You Need To Know

Offers have now all expired, view current American Express bonuses by clicking here.

Update 07/10/18: Another round of offers has just been sent out. Subject line is ‘<name>, experience the rewards of sharing when you add Additional Cards to your account’. Hat tip to reader vonUnterstein

Update 06/11/18: Offers added on Business Platinum, Business Gold Rewards & Delta Gold Business

Update 05/25/18: Offers on the Premier Rewards Gold card are going out via snail mail via Frequent Miler. If anybody has a working application link  (from a possible e-mail offer) please share it in the comments.

The Offers

American Express Business  Platinum

  • Add new additional card members to your account through this e-mail and earn 5,000 Membership Rewards points after they spend $1,500 in eligible purchases on their card in the first 3 months of card membership (limit of 20,000 points).

American Express Business Gold Rewards

  • Add new additional card members to your account through this e-mail and earn 5,000 Membership Rewards points after they spend $500 in eligible purchases on their card in the first 3 months of card membership (limit of 20,000 points).

American Express Business Delta Gold

  • Add new additional card members to your account through this e-mail and earn 2,500 Delta miles after they spend $500 in eligible purchases on their card in the first 3 months of card membership (limit of 10,000 points).

American Express Platinum

  • Add new additional card members to your account through this e-mail and earn 5,000 Membership Rewards points after they spend $500 in eligible purchases on their card in the first 3 months of card membership (limit of 20,000 points). Offer ends August 31st, 2018

Keep in mind you can add up to 3 Platinum authorized users for $175. You can also add gold authorized users for free.

Hat tip to reader Liz

Premier Rewards Gold

  • Add new additional card members to your account through this e-mail and earn 5,000 Membership Rewards points after they spend $500 in eligible purchases on their card in the first 3 months of card membership (limit of 20,000 points). Offer ends August 31st, 2018

What You Should Know

  • If you aren’t targeted, call American Express to see if they can add the offer to your account. This is usually possible. At the moment the direct links don’t seem to be working either, so calling in regardless of whether you received an e-mail or not seems like it’s required.
  • SSN is not required when you add an authorized user, but you need to provide one within 60 days of account opening (people have been denied the bonus in the past for not providing this in time)
  • American Express authorized user accounts do count towards your Chase 5/24 status/total.

F.A.Q

Does being added as an authorized user prevent you from getting the sign up bonus?

No, you can be added as an authorized and then sign up for the card as the primary cardholder and still receive the sign up bonus.

Who needs to spend the money to trigger the bonus?

Authorized user needs to complete the spend requirement. Keep in mind authorized users have their own unique card number so this is easy to track. It’s highly unlikely that spend completed by the primary cardholder will trigger the bonus.

Our Verdict

Please share any other offers you received in the comments, along with any direct login links if you have them available. Previously people were having issues with these bonuses posting, but over the last week it seems like more and more of them are posting. Hopefully the people still waiting will be put out of their misery soon.

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justmeha
justmeha (@guest_1236202)
August 9, 2021 14:07

i think this roundup should be revived

Adam
Adam (@guest_622095)
July 26, 2018 09:27

Just noticed an offer on the Hilton Ascend. $250 spend for 5k bonus x 4. Email came in on 7/24.

Alex
Alex (@guest_621001)
July 24, 2018 08:11

An AmEx rep just told me that employees added to business cards must be at least 18. He explained that authorized users for personal cards was different, and allowed kids 13+. I was trying to add my 16-year-old son as an employee on my AmEx Business Platinum, and had already received the card, but couldn’t get past the card confirmation screen that asks for SSN and DOB.

I couldn’t find anything about minimum ages for employee cards on the AmEx website to confirm what the agent said. But assuming that policy is true, the 18+ rule for employee cards might be a good fact to add to future “need to knows”.

FreebieMR
FreebieMR (@guest_616363)
July 12, 2018 18:35

Called in three times to Amex. Only on the third call did they say that they couldn’t add the AU promotion to my account. However, they added 3K MR to my account instead.

dave
dave (@guest_616282)
July 12, 2018 14:26

I tried calling in to see if this was available on my Amex Gold Rewards card but it didn’t work.

Leo
Leo (@guest_615583)
July 11, 2018 10:10

I tried chatting with Amex today to add this to my business platinum and business gold card and was told there are no current offers and nothing they see. Womp Womp!

Eric
Eric (@guest_615396)
July 10, 2018 19:57

Not sure about those fuss fuss fuss above. But most of my bonuses have been posted on time. As in within 3 – 4 days. One exception was my referral last May. Amex didn’t post it till late July. Amex sent me an email and a letter in August regarding bonus not posting in a timely fashion. They credited an extra 15K due to an inconvenience. But then again I hold 6 Amex-issued cc (not counting third party Amex). But again my most recent Amex cc app went to pending and got approved after it went to their office in SLC. The rep specifically mentioned “you don’t have history of opening and closing accounts for bonuses”. So I wonder if those fuss fuss fuss were engaging in MS, gamming, etc.

John
John (@guest_612316)
July 3, 2018 17:20

Are there any POID numbers showing on PRG offer letter. I called to match the adding additional users offer, but the rep continuously asked me the POID number.

Jatan
Jatan (@guest_621775)
July 25, 2018 15:35

Got the offer yesterday by email for my PRG that was opened in March — you can try POID GAML:0001

John
John (@guest_621796)
July 25, 2018 16:30

Thank you. Could you also share the link, so I can try please?

JW
JW (@guest_604500)
June 12, 2018 00:48

I read somewhere that AU card will not be counted against Chase 5/24 if the AU was added to a business account. True?

Orin
Orin (@guest_599546)
May 26, 2018 13:47

I tried chatting with Amex today to add this to my gold card and was told it is no longer available and was limited time and that time is over and there are no current offers