Raise.com has added a neat feature in their app that when you add a gift card to your cart, it’s reserved for you for five minutes. This is to mitigate the frustration of going back and forth trying to buy a card and seeing the card sold out by the time you finish the purchase. (Been there done that – happens especially on fast moving cards.)
[#rant] I personally HATE when businesses have additional features on the app that aren’t on the website. I don’t understand why they can’t let consumers choose their preferred mode of shopping. Some things like a mobile payment option are understandable, but standard features should be the same across all platforms, IMHO, no matter what your marketing team wants. [#endrant]
There are numerous other changes in the updated app as well. I updated to the app and found it neat and snappy.
They added an interesting feature where you’ll get a push notification if you have a gift card in your Raise Wallet for a nearby store. Pretty cool to get such a reminder, but note this means you’ll have to keep your Raise Wallet up to date and delete old cards, otherwise, I imagine you’ll continuously get notification for the old, depleted cards.
You can read our review of buying gift cards on Raise here.
FYI, the Raise app accepts Apple Pay and Samsung Pay which earns 3x with the US Bank Altitude card.
