January 3, 2014

Getting Started: Award Wallet


This is the second in a series of posts (Here is the first) on getting started earning, managing, and redeeming points and miles.  One question I often get is “how do you keep track of your points?”  I have over thirty points/miles accounts all with different usernames and passwords.  Emily has another twenty or so accounts.  That is 50+ unique numbers, usernames, and passwords to manage representing 1,500,000 miles and points.  That would be pretty impossible without some sort of system.   
 
Easily add/manage multiple accounts













Award Wallet is a free service (there is paid version as well that provides some incremental functionality) that enables you to manage all of your accounts (for your family as well) in one place.  Part of making this work is staying super organized.  AwardWallet makes that part really simple and easy.  Award Wallet enables you to add all of your accounts, keep track of the balances, automatically update balances, add your travel planes, and see which points/miles are about to expire.  You can even add things like Opentable or Starbucks to your account.

It's a pretty intuitive (create an AwardWallet account, add the usernames and passwords for your miles/points accounts and that's it) system but please let me know if you have any questions on getting setup!  It's a similar process to setting up Mint or any other financial aggregation system.  There are a few airlines that have prevented AwardWallet (i.e. United and American) but you can manually update your balance - something I do on a monthly basis.

Keep track of accounts, account numbers, status, balances, and expiration dates 

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