How to Load Serve from Amex Cards

Why Templates? gives you a set of valid reasons on why to use such templates or basic workflow diagrams on a day-to-day basis. To summarize, if you run out of big bonus spend cards (or soon enough you will), the world of category rewards aint so bad. You could make some decent money, though not as much as the 100k or 75k cards. But still, I think it makes sense to pursue this during lull times. The reason to use templates is to simplify your process and think less about which cards and where to spend. I just print them out and put it in my room or car. If you wanna go real agile (software programmers know what I am talking about), you could print it out and paste it in your study room or bed room. Trust me, it just frees up the mental resources down the line. These money loading business could quickly go out of hand with you not knowing where you loaded and how to verify it, which store to go and which card to put the spend on. The best way is to just write it down, the good old-fashioned way. Eventually, it will evolve to just a bunch of templates that you could be tweaking as these rewards structure, the way the prepaid cards are loaded and the credit card programs inevitably change.

One of the hallowed programs are the American Express one and the ones depicted on the picture below is the American Express branded Blue Cash family one (so Blue cash Preferred, blue cash - old and new one). You could also substitute this with the new EveryDay card and EveryDay card Preferred. In each of these cards, you basically buy the gift cards/vanilla reloads/one vanilla gift cards/whatever from CVS/7-eleven/whatever and then load directly into your BlueBird/Server Card from the money kiosk at Family Dollar/Wal-Mart/CVS itself/whatever. Note that at the time of this writing, the Wal-Mart/CVS does not work as their softwares no longer support loading money. It is their company policy rather than regulatory or any such thing. Hence the reason I have put whatever, since one door closes inevitably leads to another one opening. You could use any of these cards and then check your point balances and decide for yourself. This is probably my bread and butter way to earn credit card reward points. This also seems to be the most popular one for the other bloggers out there. Again, dont over use or abuse it and just use other strategies mentioned in this blog and you should be mostly fine.

Also note  that Amex really does not consider 7 - eleven to be a gas station or a standalone gas station so likely, you would not be getting any points off that.

 

Workflow Diagram/Simple picture to load money from Amex Credit Cards to BlueBird: