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The Offer
Direct Link to offer (this contains my referral link) | Find your referral here
- Rakuten shopping portal is offering their best-ever referral bonus:
- New member gets $50 when they join via referral link and spend a total of $50 in qualifying purchases within 90 days of joining.
- Referrer then gets $50 as well.
Offer valid 9/10/25 – 9/30/25.
Our Verdict
$50 is the best we’ve seen and is an excellent deal for a simple portal signup. You can also invite your spouse, friends, and family to get this deal and you’ll get $50 for referring them too. My thanks to anyone who signs up using my referral link.
You also have the option to earn your Rakuten cashback as Membership Rewards points instead which some people will find more valuable.
An easy way to meet the $50 spend requirement is to click through Rakuten to Giftcards.com and buy a $50 gift card from Visa, Starbucks, Instacart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Target, etc. Of course there are hundreds of other merchants on Rakuten which work just as well, but buying a $50 Visa gift card is something almost anyone can find a way to use.
No referral sharing in the comments below.
I see many exclusions, household items that we can buy excluded, we don’t really need anything else from there, what is the most liquid items people are getting?
Rakuten closed my account in the past for accruing too much cashback, so I’d be wary of trying to churn this. I had about $10,000 pending that they never paid out.
$10,000 in cashback pending? holy moly
What unscrupulous activities were you doing to get that much within a quarter.
Whoa I wonder if you can escalate that somewhere. Seems like they definitely decided to not follow through T&C
Has anyone successfully referred themself?
Yes multiple times.
Any way to churn this? I referred P2 six years ago, but they have been completely inactive on Rakuten for years.
Create a new account.
Can I create an account with a new email id. How will they track it
IP?
Do you need to install the browser extension to qualify?
No. Also per T&C the referral bonus and the extension bonus cannot be done at the same time.
Be interested to hear how many referrals you get! Congrats and hope you get a lot!
How to make sure i made the referral correctly? Referred p2. P2 signed up, but I don’t see pending referral in my account yet. Maybe it will show up after p2 spending 50?
It’s not a completed referral until the referred spends the required amount. Not sure it even shows pending, might go direct to confirmed.