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Welcome offers on The Business Platinum Card® from American Express: Targeted offers up to 250k.

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The Business Platinum Card® from American Express

October 31, 2024: We found that it is possible to get a 250k point welcome offer on The Business Platinum Card® from American Express using a referral link or through a targeted offer.

Most sites advertise only their affiliate offers on The Business Platinum Card® from American Express. But you can likely find a better welcome offer with a bit of effort.

As of our last update, here’s what we found was available:

  • Standard (affiliate) offer: bonus_miles_full Learn how to apply. (See Rates and Fees)
  • Referral offer: Earn 250,000 Membership Rewards® Points after you spend $20,000 in eligible purchases on your Business Platinum Card® within the first 3 months of Card Membership. (Referral link)
  • Targeted offer: Earn 250,000 Membership Rewards® Points after you spend $20,000 on eligible purchases with your Card in the first 3 months of Card Membership.

All information about The Business Platinum Card® from American Express has been collected independently by cardsandpoints.com.

Here’s what you need to know about the current Amex Business Platinum welcome offers.

Standard offer: 150k Membership Rewards® points

Here’s the standard welcome offer on the The Business Platinum Card® from American Express. This offer is continuously updated through a data feed from our affiliate partners.

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The Business Platinum Card® from American Express

Annual fee: annual_fees
(See Rates and Fees)

Standard welcome offer: bonus_miles_full

Learn how to apply.

This bonus is earned as Membership Rewards® points.

Referral offer: 250k Membership Rewards® points

On October 30, 2024, we confirmed that some existing cardmembers were able to generate referral links that display the following offer:

Referral offer: Earn 250,000 Membership Rewards® Points after you spend $20,000 in eligible purchases on your Business Platinum Card® within the first 3 months of Card Membership.

Here are some referral links that we’ve confirmed bring up this offer. If you want to contribute your own referral links to be displayed on this page, subscribe to our newsletter. We put out calls for subscriber links when we hear of a better offer available through referral links.

Targeted offer: Up to 250k Membership Rewards®

At the time of publication, we were able to find a targeted offer for 250,000 Membership Rewards® points after $20,000 of spending in 3 months. We were able to pull this up in both Chrome Incognito mode and Safari Private Browsing mode by going to the Amex website directly. We were also able to find the offer by searching for “Amex Business Platinum” and clicking the link to the American Express website.

American Express Business Platinum 250k offer.
250k targeted welcome offer on The Business Platinum Card® from American Express

Finding a targeted offer can be a tricky task, but here are the top three tactics we use to find the best targeted offers:

  • Visit the American Express website directly and see if a targeted offer for the card is displayed.
  • Search for “Amex Business Platinum” and click on the links to the website.
  • Trying the two tactics above in an Incognito or Private browsing window might yield different results.

Only American Express knows how it generates targeted offers. Seeing a good offer doesn’t guarantee that you’ll see that offer again when you refresh your browser window.

If you want to do more digging to find the best targeted welcome offer available, we have an article on finding the best Amex welcome offers with some other tactics to try.

Bottom line: A little work can get you a larger bonus

When it comes to getting the best welcome offer on The Business Platinum Card® from American Express, clicking on the first link you see likely won’t get you the best offer available. Since American Express markets different offers through different channels and seeds targeted welcome offers through its website, you can often get a better offer with minimal effort.

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  • For rates and fees of the The Business Platinum Card® from American Express, please visit this link: See Rates and Fees

About the author

  • Photo of Aaron Hurd, credit card and travel rewards expert.

    Aaron Hurd is a credit card, travel rewards, and loyalty program expert. Over the past 15 years, he has authored over a thousand expert contributions published by leading outlets including WSJ, TIME, Newsweek, Forbes, NerdWallet, The Points Guy, Bankrate, CNET, and many others. He has also served in consulting roles for many of these same outlets, designing content strategy, hiring teams of teams of editors and contributors, developing thought-leadership pieces, and ghost-editing for senior editors. Aaron is well-known in the miles and points community and regularly presents about travel rewards at conferences like the Chicago Seminars and Minnebar. Aaron has enjoyed the game of optimizing credit card rewards since getting his first credit card shortly after he turned 18. He started learning about credit cards and travel rewards from the (now defunct) FatWallet Finance forums and FlyerTalk. He holds more than 40 open credit cards and has first-hand experience with almost every major credit card product.

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