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Reminder: last date for Clubcard earning for August statements is July 20th

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Just a quick heads up that Saturday 20th July is the last date to have Tesco Clubcard points credited to your account before the August voucher run.

If you have a few coupons to use up, you might want to make a transaction today or tomorrow to ensure they get credited by Saturday.

This is especially useful if you are very close to a 50 point multiple, since vouchers are sent out in multiples of 50p with any extra held over until next time.

It is worth remembering that last August, Clubcard was running a 50% bonus on conversions to both Avios and Virgin Flying Club.  Let’s see if anything similar appears this year.

how to earn avios from credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (June 2021)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

There are two official British Airways American Express cards:

British Airways American Express card

British Airways American Express

5,000 Avios for signing up, no annual fee and a companion voucher for spending £20,000 Read our full review

BA Premium Plus American Express card BAPP

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

25,000 Avios and the UK’s most valuable credit card perk – the 2-4-1 companion voucher Read our full review

You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points, such as:

Nectar American Express

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & two airport lounge passes Read our full review

American Express Platinum card Amex

The Platinum Card from American Express

30,000 points and an unbeatable set of travel benefits – for a fee Read our full review

We also recommend Capital On Tap for limited companies. You earn 1 Avios per £1 which is impressive for a Visa card:

Capital On Tap Business Rewards Visa

The most generous Avios Visa or Mastercard for a limited company Read our full review

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.

(Want to earn more Avios?  Click here to visit our home page for our latest articles on earning and spending your Avios points and click here to see how to earn more Avios this month from offers and promotions.)

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Comments (36)

  • Danksy says:
    18 Jul18 July 11:33

    Squillions….. Im clearly having a blonde moment!! what does MOC mean?

  • Danksy says:
    18 Jul18 July 11:35

    Money off coupon. … D’oh

  • Colin Brown says:
    18 Jul18 July 11:36

    I’m drawn here – can’t decide whether to turn off auto-convert, or keep it on, as there’s some sort of bonus for keeping it on.

    • squillion says:
      18 Jul18 July 12:24

      I don’t think there’s an on-going bonus for staying with auto convert. You stand to lose the opportunity to take advantage of the putative bonus Avios conversion promo we’d all like to see.

      • Nick says:
        18 Jul18 July 13:43

        My concern is that it is not beyond the realms of possibility that the existing 2.4 rate will reduce. I think it’s been 2 in the past….. we are all holding on to our clubcard points waiting for the bonus offer, but is anyone else a bit concerned that things might get worse rather than better?

      • Thomas says:
        18 Jul18 July 14:57

        Whenever there is a bonus conversion promo, they have always offered and added the bonus points onto my account which is set to auto convert, so i have not lost out.
        Is this not the case with everyone ??

        • Colin says:
          18 Jul18 July 15:56

          So you mean they backdate your previous conversions and add the bonus onto those too?

          • Thomas says:
            18 Jul18 July 16:49

            No. To clarify,
            I have always had auto convert set as default on my account and every bonus promotion has seen the bonus applied automatically. I have not lost out…
            I have no need of the physical vouchers so this just makes it a lot easier.

          • Jamie says:
            18 Jul18 July 17:30

            But they don’t back date though ?

            So anything you convert for a normal rate when the promo is not on stays at the normal rate, saving your clubcard points and converting them all is surely a much better idea ?

  • Mark says:
    18 Jul18 July 12:28

    It’s a no-go. You have to choose one single option for each transaction and since there’s a maximum of £50 per year on CC pay-out it follows that you cannot chose CC points for any transaction over £50, or indeed anything over the proportion of that £50 allowance you haven’t already used.

    It will have to be cash, Amazon vouchers or one of the other options.

  • Danksy says:
    18 Jul18 July 13:03

    On a tangent…. But how long does it take for the ore-orde points to appear in your account? I ordered the Diablo iii deal last Thursday but although its in my tesco direct as outstanding u haven’t yet received the points! Do they come when the games are dispatched?

    Cheers

    • Danksy says:
      18 Jul18 July 14:45

      Sorry….pesky ipad (I meant pre-ordered)

    • Colin says:
      18 Jul18 July 15:59

      When the item is in the basket the bonus clubcard points should show up on the screen. Then, as Tesco are taking your cash immediately, the bonus points will be credited to your account in (usually) 2 working days, happens overnight.

      Might be worth giving Tesco Direct a call.

      • Geoff Richards says:
        19 Jul19 July 12:58

        I agree – all my points for Diablo II posted promptly. Got two lots of 1540 and one 2040 so 5120 total points. No cancellations. So aside from disposing of three copies of a game I never wanted, I feel pretty good (makes up for getting cancelled for Dan Brown Inferno earlier in the year)

        • chris says:
          19 Jul19 July 20:03

          small and unimportant, when disposing of them market them as diablo III not diablo II, you wont get as much for 2

          besides that yes the points should of been 48 hours at the most, so best to call tescos direct

  • NohoMan says:
    20 Jul20 July 23:25

    If I have tesco clubcard £5 rewards voucher sitting in my draw, do I leave them there if waiting for a bonus conversion?

    Many thanks

  • Steve says:
    22 Jul22 July 00:00

    Just wanted to ask a question that’s been asked before probably, but can’t seem to find a definitive answer….

    I currently have 5176 points in my clubcard account, with no auto-convert set up for Virgin or BA – when the new period starts will those 5176 points from the previous period points carried forward?

    • Rob says:
      22 Jul22 July 09:03

      No. You will be posted Tesco Clubcard vouchers for £51.50 with a 2 year expiry date. Put them in a drawer, if you don’t need the miles now, and hope for a conversion bonus. You can convert them to miles via the Clubcard website, or indeed use them for another deal or even (bad value) spend them in a Tesco for face value.

  • danksy says:
    22 Jul22 July 11:54

    I found out what has happened! Somehow a different clubcard was setup on Tesco Direct (which for some bizzare reason wasn’t registered to any of my previous addresses!)

    They’ve transferred the points over to my ‘real’ clubcard and I’ve now changed my Tesco passwords!

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