Tip: Speed-Add AmEx Offers In The American Express App

Most of us are aware of the limit which the American Express login has in showing just 100 AmEx Offers. It got even worse recently when they added dozens of these % cashback offers in partnership with Drop. It boggles my mind that a behemoth company like Amex hasn’t fixed this problem after all these years. And the special link to bypass the 100 limit doesn’t seem to work any longer.

To remedy this, we add garbage offers to one card and that causes the hidden offers to appear. While I typically peruse Amex Offers in a web browser, I noticed that adding them in the Amex app is much quicker. You can click on the + and then immediately touch anywhere higher on the screen to cancel out the pop-up and then quickly + the next offer, etc.

I’m sure many people knew this for long, but figured it’s worth sharing. (#firstworldproblems) I’ll typically add the garbage offers on a card not in use, and then save the good ones for active cards.

For those adding offers in a web browser, readers in the comments give a suggestion to add offers from bottom to top for smoother quick adding experience.
    Chuck
  • On December 7, 2022, 12:00
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  • I originally wrote the following comment yesterday on an Amex Offer for Kroger Supermarkets page on this site, but reading the above post by Chuck actually was what had started me down the route of looking anew at the offers section of my Amex account, so I thought I'd put my comment here in this discussion area:

    Last night, I learned from this site that the Amex offers number in the hundreds, but only show 100 at a time in your Amex account, so you have to load a gazillion offers to your Amex card in order to see what else is lurking behind the scenes.
    I can’t believe that I didn’t know that before – I had assumed that the 100 deals they showed me were the only ones that I was being offered at that time.
    I also learned last night that it takes forever on their site to click the little buttons (I had to do that for 330 offers), that the ordeal was almost* pointless since I didn’t see any offers in the “hidden” offers that I’d want to use at the moment, that minimizing the (laptop) screen to 33% made it more efficient to click the little buttons without much mouse movement, that it’s not just me who gets plied with multiple wine offers… and I realized with horror that apparently they send reminder emails when an offer you’ve added to your card is about to expire, so I can look forward to hundreds of those coming to my email account in the next couple of months.
    *However, it wasn’t totally worthless, because I think now that I have no current offers available for my card (that I haven’t already seen and added to the card yesterday in order to get rid of them), it will be a lot easier to skim through and clear out the new, incoming ones when they drop onto my account (unless Amex constantly adds scores and scores of them all the time to peoples’ accounts… if they do that, I’m not going to spend that much time mucking around with their stupid system).
    Basically, the few of these offers that I have used over the years, have been noteworthy enough that I have seen them mentioned online (on a savings/earnings site such as this one), or I have happened to notice them when I’ve been in my online Amex account for a different reason, and I’m fine having that low level of involvement.

    Anyway, I’m just posting here to give the data point that I didn’t have any Kroger (or other supermarket chain) offers in all 330 offers I went through last night on my lone Amex card.

    (Actually, I see that this posting must have just been posted an hour or something ago, since it has this morning’s date on it of Dec. 8, so maybe something new is from a supermarket in my Amex offers now… I will check… no, I don’t have any new offers.)

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    I was then asked on that page by commenter "sg77":
    "After adding a bunch of the offers, so that more offers show up, were any of the offers good? Recently it seems to me that the good offers show up (if it’s going to show up) even if I have 100 offers, and the offers beyond 100 are crappy ones I didn’t want anyway. But maybe not always."

    I replied:

    I had wondered the same thing – that maybe in the first 100 offers I was being shown, maybe Amex was proactively showing me:
    a) the most applicable to my situation/customer profile/past purchases
    b) and/or the most “valuable” in a monetary sense
    c) and/or the most likely to be widely popular across the whole spectrum of their customers (like the current $5 off of $15 at Ebay offer is).

    However, what I found was that “a” was not true at all — the last 50 offers that I finally uncovered (after going through 280 of them) actually had the only new offers that I was mildly interested in, from stores that I have bought things from before, and which maybe in another month I would have taken advantage of.

    I found that “b” was not true.

    As for “c”, maybe it’s true for the very popular offers like the current Ebay one — that one was definitely in my first 100, and I think it was actually in the first 6 or so entries on the list —
    but in terms of the name-recognition of the stores and the cash value of the money-back and all the rest of it, I did not see any difference between the first 100 offers that were already showing in my Amex account and the subsequent 230 offers that I uncovered by adding everything to my card one-by-one.

    Basically, like many other commenters have noted here, this Amex offer system is screwy and does not reflect well on Amex —
    beyond being so user-unfriendly, it’s not even strategically sound in terms of marketing or guiding customer behavior, and it surely turns off much more business than it gains to have it be so awkwardly put together.
    It is painful to fiddle with it to try to see how one can get the full value out of it (as I did last night), and there is no reason to make the customer’s experience of it so unpleasant.

    What I don’t know for sure yet is whether,
    if the number of offers in my Amex account build up again and I’ve got a lot of hidden ones beyond the 100 that I can see,
    if I see online (on a site like this one) a tip that there is a decent and accessible offer that a lot of Amex customers are being shown (such as the little Ebay $5 off $15 one that is available now),
    if I would be able to go to my Amex account and, if the offer I am trying to activate is not in the first 100 offers that are showing on my account, if I could do a quick search for that recommended offer on the Amex site and have it come up, or would I have to manually sift through hundreds and hundreds of offers (by adding them all to my card) to see if I could uncover the recommended offer I was looking for. Do you know if it’s possible to search for a specific company’s name in the offers?

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    And commenter "Carl Pietrantonio" on the other page let me know that "Easily findable online is a little subroutine you add to your browser that will, when activated,, load ALL your offers onto your card(s). Just have to do a little work to find it."

    I replied:
    Thank you, Carl, for mentioning that.
    I had already seen on this site a description of several options for that kind of an automated routine to handle the Amex offers, and I chose last night not to delve into that sort of solution for my situation, as the Amex offers aren’t that useful to me on the whole, and it would have been more time-consuming for me personally to try to set something like that up, rather than just do a one-time clicking extravaganza while I was watching tv last night, and wait and see how fast and furiously Amex tosses new, mostly irrelevant offers at my account, and see if I can dispatch with them relatively quickly on an on-going basis now that the offer “inbox” is clear, as I described in my prior comment.

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    And now I see that Chuck wrote yesterday a follow-up post to his post on this page, going into more detail about a Chrome extension that helps people deal with their Amex Offers:
    https://www.doctorofcredit.com/free-chrome-extension-easily-adds-all-available-amex-offers/

  • AMEX mobile app is used to let you delete useless AMEX offers. Now they remove that function : (

  • There's also a javascript code you can bookmark from Github that automatically adds them. It will run in a background tab while you do other stuff. It's only a few lines of code. All it does is click the offer buttons for you. Search github for "American Express - Add all offers to card at once". Not affiliated in anyway, I found it passed around another forum.

    • I recently did this and it has been an absolute game changer, it may appear intimidating but after spending 10 minutes to figure it out ... it was so freaking cool. You click one button and your web browser automatically clicks and adds all existing Amex Offers. I love it.

      • There's no known privacy implications when using that code? Just checking before I invest time. Ty!

        • I'm no cyber security expert but as @devin stated it's just a few lines of code and takes just a few minutes to implement. When reviewing the code I don't see any websites where it's sending your AmericanExpress.com login credentials to, no IP addresses, it simply searches for the add button and clicks it for you, non-stop, when you have 11 cards it's a huge time saver.

          https://milestomemories.com/this-cool-trick-lets-you-add-all-amex-offers-at-once/

          Awesome username BTW, I love it.

        • It's only a few lines of code. It looks for the offer add button and clicks it, then waits a random amount of time to search again. Really, that's all it can do.

  • I use an app called maxrewards, it lets me sync and activate automatically all offers across credit cards (including the hidden amex offers) so I do not even have to think about it. You need to have the premium version to do it, as the free one just shows the best credit card to use in different scenarios and track card benefits. I do not know if I can post this here but here is my link, we both get a free month: https://maxrewards.app.link/andreas82

    • Except MaxRewards has been having a ton of issues loading AMEX offers correctly lately. I would hold off on signing up right now because there's a possibility AMEX found the exploit MaxRewards uses and fixed it. Without the multi-card add function, I'm not sure the app itself is worth the subscription.

      • They use Plaid which is something you've probably seen anytime you've connected a bank to another bank. Same API used by services like PersonalCapital

        • Maxrewards DOES NOT USE Plaid, they "bragged" in their Reddit AMA that they have a homebrew connection. From there it went as well as you would expect.

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