Here’s The MileLion’s review of the KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card, a Singapore Airlines cobrand card for those who need wider acceptance than what American Express has to offer.
While its debit card brethren was decidedly dead-on-arrival, this card fares much better thanks to its bonuses on dining, food delivery, online shopping, travel and transport. While it’s not the absolute best to use in each category, it can be a decent option for those who (whisper it quietly) just want a single card solution.
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The KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card may not top its class in each category, but it’s still a good option for those who want a one card solution. | |
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Overview: KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card
Let’s start this review by looking at the key features of the KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card
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Income Req. | S$30,000 p.a. | Points Validity | 3 years |
Annual Fee | S$192.60 (First Year Free) | Min. Transfer | N/A |
Miles with Annual Fee | 10,000 | Transfer Partners |
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FCY Fee | 3.25% | Transfer Fee | N/A |
Local Earn | 1.2 mpd | Points Pool? | N/A |
FCY Earn | 1.2 mpd | Lounge Access? | No |
Special Earn | 3 mpd on SIA Group, dining, online shopping & travel, transport | Airport Limo? | No |
Cardholder Terms and Conditions |
Be careful not to confuse the KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card with the KrisFlyer UOB Debit Card. The two sport similar designs and names, but the value proposition is altogether different.
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Min Income Req. | S$30,000 | N/A |
Annual Fee | $192.60 | S$53.50 |
Base Earn Rate | 1.2 mpd | 0.4 mpd |
Requires KrisFlyer UOB Savings Account? | No | Yes |
Simply put: if you earn enough to qualify for a credit card, there’s very little reason to even consider the debit card option.
How much must I earn to qualify for a KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card?
The KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card has an entry-level income requirement of just S$30,000 per year.
How much is the KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card’s annual fee?
Principal Card | Supp. Card | |
First Year | Free | 1st free, S$96.30 for 2nd onwards |
Subsequent | S$192.60 | 1st free, S$96.30 for 2nd onwards |
The KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card has an annual fee of S$192.60 for the principal cardholder, which is waived for the first year. The first supplementary card is free, but the second onwards will cost S$96.30 each.
Paying the principal card’s annual fee nets you 10,000 miles, which means buying miles at ~1.93 cents each.
How many miles do I earn?
🇸🇬 SGD Spend | 🌎 FCY Spend | ➕ Bonus Spend |
1.2 mpd | 1.2 mpd | 3 mpd on SIA Group, dining, online shopping, online travel, transport |
SGD/FCY Spend
KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card members earn:
- 6 KrisFlyer miles for every S$5 spent in Singapore Dollars
- 6 KrisFlyer miles for every S$5 spent in foreign currency (FCY)
That’s an equivalent earn rate of 1.2 mpd for both.
It’s a bit unusual to see a general spending card without an FCY spending bonus (although the AMEX KrisFlyer cobrand cards don’t offer one for 10 out of 12 months!), and that put its at the bottom of the pack.
Cards | Local MPD | FCY MPD |
![]() | 1.4 | 2.4 |
![]() | 1.2 | 2.1 |
![]() | 1.2 | 2.0 |
![]() | 1.2 | 2.0 |
![]() | 1.2 | 2.0* |
![]() | 1.1 | 2.0* |
![]() | 1.0 | 2.0 |
![]() | 1.0 | 2.0 |
![]() | 1.2 | 1.2 |
*June and Dec only, otherwise 1.1 mpd |
As with all UOB cards, do take care when spending at UOB$ merchants, because no KrisFlyer miles will be awarded. Some major UOB$ merchants include Cold Storage, Giant, Guardian and BreadTalk .
All overseas transactions on the KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card are subject to a 3.25% fee.
Bonus Spending
KrisFlyer UOB Credit Cardholders will earn 15 KrisFlyer miles for every S$5 spent (3 mpd) on SIA Group transactions (both online and offline), defined as:
- Singapore Airlines
- Scoot
- KrisShop
- Kris+
This includes using your KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card to pay for taxes and surcharges on an award flight booked via KrisFlyer, or for add-on services with Scoot. There is no cap on the maximum bonus that can be earned.
KrisFlyer UOB Credit Cardholders who meet a specified minimum spend on SIA Group transactions (excluding Kris+) in a membership year will earn 15 KrisFlyer miles for every S$5 spent (3 mpd) on the following transactions (whether local or overseas).
Category | MCCs/ Transaction Description |
Dining & Food Delivery | 5812, 5813, 5814 |
Online Shopping* | 4816, 5262, 5306, 5309, 5310, 5311, 5331, 5399, 5611, 5621, 5631, 5641, 5651, 5661, 5691, 5699, 5732-5735, 5912, 5942, 5944-5949, 5964-5970, 5992, 5999, 7278 (only for Shopee, Lazada and Qoo10) |
Online Travel | Agoda, Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com, Kaligo, Traveloka, Trip.com, UOB Travel |
Transport | BUS/MRT, 4121 |
*From 1 July 2020, any online payment made to Computer Software Stores (5734) , Direct Marketing Merchants (5964 – 5969), Artist Supply Stores, Craft Shops (5970) and Florists (5992) will be excluded from earning bonus miles |
While you could earn 4 mpd on most of these transactions with other cards, the key advantage of the KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card is the absence of a cap. Therefore, it might be better to use it for big ticket purchases larger than S$2,000 (any less and the DBS Woman’s World Card would be better).
The specified minimum spend on SIA Group transactions depends on when your membership year ends.
Membership Year Ends | Min. SIA Group Spend |
April 2021 to August 2022 | S$300 |
September 2022 to March 2023 | S$500 |
April 2023 onwards | S$800 |
Do note that UOB recently hiked the specified minimum spend from S$500 to S$800 without notice, which isn’t exactly what you’d call best practice.
If you’re unsure of your membership year, simply check the expiry date on your card. The month refers to the month your membership year begins; if the expiry date shows 02/25, for example, your membership year runs from 1st February to 31st January each year.
Dining & Food Delivery
MCC | Examples |
5812: Eating Places and Restaurants | Crystal Jade, Imperial Treasure, Paradise Dynasty, Deliveroo, Food Panda, GrabFood* |
5813: Bars, Cocktail Lounges, Discotheques, Nightclubs and Taverns | Brewerkz, Harry’s, Jigger & Pony |
5814: Fast Food Restaurants | Burger King, KFC, McDonald’s, Subway, |
*Deliveroo, Food Panda and GrabFood may also code as MCC 5814 |
Dining is defined as restaurants, bars, and fast food outlets. The bonus also applies to food delivery platforms such as Deliveroo, Food Panda and GrabFood.
Do note the exclusion of MCC 5462 (Bakeries) and 5499 (Misc. Food Stores), which would exclude some options like Boost Juice Bar, Crave, Chalk Farm, Famous Amos, and Grain. Restaurants within hotels may also not qualify for this bonus.
Online Shopping
MCC | Examples |
4816: Computer Network/ Info Services | Godaddy, Twitch, Peatix |
5309: Duty Free Stores | DFS, KrisShop, The Shilla |
5310: Discount Stores | N/A |
5311: Department Stores | Taobao, Isetan, Marks & Spencer |
5331: Variety Stores | Muji, Mustafa, Miniso |
5399: Misc General Merchandise | Iuiga, Japan Home, Comgateway |
5611: Men’s Clothing | Benjamin Barker, Dockers, Superdry |
5621: Women’s Ready to Wear | bYSI, Coast, Forever21 |
5631: Women’s Accessories | Bimba Y Lola, Chomel, Coach |
5641: Children’s and Infants’ Wear | Abercrombie Kids, Cotton On Kids, Kidstyle |
5651: Family Clothing | ASOS, Bossini, Desigual |
5661: Shoe Stores | ALDO, Bata, Birkenstock |
5691: Men’s and Women’s Clothing | Prada, G2000, Ezbuy |
5699: Accessory and Apparel | LeSportsac, Crumpler, Esprit |
5732-5735: Electronics, Music Stores, Computer Software | Apple, Audio House, MealPal |
5912: Drug Stores and Pharmacies | Guardian, NTUC Unity, Watsons |
5942: Book Stores | Book Depository, Kinokuniya, Books Actually |
5944-5949: Jewelry, Watches, Toys, Camera, Gift Cards, Leather Goods, Sewing | Cartier, Action City, Canon |
5964-5970: Direct Marketing Merchants | AliExpress, Youtube Premium, Google Drive |
5992: Florists | Xpressflower, The Flower Factory, Bloomback |
5999: Misc and Specialty Retail | Banana Republic, Amazon, eBay |
Online shopping will cover almost every major e-commerce merchant out there- Amazon, Ezbuy, Lazada, Qoo10, Shopee, and Taobao for instance.
You can also expect most major fashion retailers to be on this list (the real issue is whether they offer online shopping, because only online transactions will earn the bonus), along with some unexpected ones like MealPal and hosting providers.
Online Travel
MCC | Examples |
Online Travel | Agoda, Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com, Kaligo, Traveloka, Trip.com, UOB Travel |
While online shopping is broadly defined, online travel is relatively narrow.
UOB has a specific whitelist of OTAs which are eligible for 3 mpd, which includes all the usual heavy hitters like Booking.com and Trip.com. For obvious reasons, the KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card can’t explicitly let you earn bonus miles with any airline outside the SIA Group, but a simple workaround is to book via Expedia or UOB Travel.
Transport
MCC | Examples |
4121 | BUS/MRT, Grab, Gojek, Comfort |
Transport refers to Grab, gojek, Comfort and other taxi operators. It also includes SimplyGo transactions made on buses and the MRT.
Do note that you won’t earn any bonus miles (or base miles for that matter) if you use your card to top-up your EZ-Link balance, or pay at the General Ticketing Machines. You must tap your card (or phone, if you’ve added your card to your mobile wallet) at the gantry in order to qualify for the bonus.

When are KrisFlyer miles credited?
Base miles, and bonus miles from SIA Group transactions will be directly credited to your KrisFlyer account once per calendar month.
It’s a very different story for the bonus miles from dining, food delivery, online shopping, online travel and transport transactions. Of the 15 KrisFlyer miles per S$5 spent:
- 6 KrisFlyer miles per S$5 (1.2 mpd) will be credited at the end of each calendar month
- 9 KrisFlyer miles per S$5 (1.8 mpd) will be credited two months after the end of the membership year, assuming you hit the specified minimum spend on SIA Group transactions
UOB calls the 1.8 mpd portion, with no small sense of irony, “Accelerated Miles”, and it’s one heck of a catch. It means you could be waiting up to 14 months to receive your bonus!
This delayed crediting arrangement gives rise to four problems. I’ve expounded on them in this post, but to summarise:
- You’re locked into the card, because all pending bonus miles are forfeited if you cancel.
- Reconciling bonus points will be a nightmare. It’s already hard enough to check transactions on a month to month basis. Imagine doing it for an entire year’s worth.
- Because your pending bonus miles take anywhere from 2-14 months to reach you, you’re especially exposed to devaluation risk. If Singapore Airlines announces an award chart devaluation, other cardholders can rush out to burn their miles before it happens. You can’t, because they’re in limbo.
- Your miles will age at different rates. Some will be credited each month and start their 3-year expiry countdown immediately, the rest will follow in 2-14 months
UOB will argue that this is necessary because there’s no way of knowing, at the point of transaction, whether the cardholder will go on to hit the specified minimum spend required for the bonus. But there surely has to be a better way of doing this, because the current mechanism holds you hostage- cancel your card early, and lose your bonus!
Now all that having been said, there was a pleasant surprise for KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card members in May 2020, when many found their bonus miles crediting ahead of schedule.

I can’t say if this was accident or design, or whether cardholders can expect this to happen every year. All I’ll say is this isn’t a card for those who want their miles sooner rather than later.
How are KrisFlyer miles calculated?
Here’s how you can work out the KrisFlyer miles earned on your KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card.
Local & FCY Spend | Round down transaction to nearest S$5, then divide by 5 and multiply by 6 |
Bonus Component | Round down transaction to nearest S$5, then divide by 5 and multiply by 9 |
Since all transactions are rounded down to the nearest S$5, the minimum spend required to earn miles is S$5. Anything less than that earns nothing!
A simple illustration. Suppose you spent S$9 on your KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card. You might figure that’s 10.8 miles (@ 1.2 mpd), but in reality:
- The S$9 is rounded down to S$5
- S$5 is divided by 5 and multiplied by 6 to yield 6 miles
You actually earn 6 miles, yielding a mere 0.67 mpd.
This is an extreme example, of course, and the effect of rounding gets smaller as your transaction size increases. But it’s exactly why you should think twice about using your KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card for small transactions that aren’t in S$5 blocks.
To show how rounding affects you, let’s compare the KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card to the Citi PremierMiles Card. On paper, both of them earn the same 1.2 mpd on all local spending. In reality, however, the Citi PremierMiles performs much better because of its favourable rounding policy.
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S$5 | 6 miles | 6 miles |
S$9.99 | 6 miles | 11 miles |
S$15 | 18 miles | 18 miles |
S$19.99 | 18 miles | 23 miles |
S$25 | 30 miles | 30 miles |
S$29.99 | 30 miles | 35 miles |
S$35 | 42 miles | 42 miles |
S$39.99 | 42 miles | 47 miles |
If you’re an Excel geek, here’s the formulas you need to calculate points:
Local & FCY Spend | =ROUNDDOWN (X/5,0) *6 |
Bonus Component | =ROUNDDOWN (X/5,0) *9 |
Where X= Amount Spent |
For the full list of formulas that banks use to calculate credit card points, do refer to these articles:
What transactions aren’t eligible for KrisFlyer miles?
A full list of transactions that do not earn KrisFlyer Miles can be found in the T&C. I’ve highlighted a few noteworthy categories below:
- Charitable Donations
- Education
- Government Services
- GrabPay top-ups
- Insurance
- Real Estate Agents & Managers
- SPC Service Stations
- Utilities
The KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card will earn miles for CardUp transactions, but not ipaymy.
What do I need to know about KrisFlyer miles?
The KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card credits KrisFlyer miles directly to your account on a monthly basis, with no conversion fees.
This is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, you save on the usual ~S$25 conversion fee that most banks charge. On the other, direct crediting means the 3 year expiry countdown starts immediately. Contrast this to other cards where you enjoy “two validities”: one on the bank side, and one on the airline side.
In case you were worried, cancelling your KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card has no impact on KrisFlyer miles already in your account.
Other card perks
Instant KrisShopper Icon status
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KrisShopper Icon status |
KrisShopper is KrisShop’s free-to-join loyalty programme, and awards a bonus of 2-4 mpd on KrisShop purchases depending on membership tier.
From now till 31 January 2023, KrisFlyer UOB Credit Cardholders can enjoy instant KrisShopper Icon status, which awards a bonus 3 mpd on all KrisShop purchases. Be advised, however, that this is only possible if you have not already signed up for KrisShopper.
KrisShopper Tier | Qualifying Spend | Earn Rate |
![]() | N/A | 1.5 mpd |
![]() | N/A | 2 mpd |
![]() | S$5,000 | 2.5 mpd |
![]() | S$10,000 | 3 mpd |
![]() | S$15,000 | 4 mpd |
*Qualifying spend includes purchases on KrisShop.com, KrisShop on Kris+, KrisShop on KrisWorld, Inflight purchases on Singapore Airlines. Excludes GST, duties and delivery charges |
Registration is required, and can be done via this link. Status will be upgraded within three months of registration, and valid for a 12-month period following that. You will subsequently need to requalify through regular means, i.e. spending S$10,000 on KrisShop within a membership year.
Don’t forget that from now till 30 November 2022, making purchases via KrisShop on Kris+ earns a flat bonus of 4.5 mpd, so an Icon member is looking at 7.5 mpd, before credit card miles are factored in.
The T&Cs of the status match can be viewed here.
Discounts for KrisFlyer Experiences
KrisFlyer Experiences is a platform that allows members to redeem their KrisFlyer miles for money-can’t-buy-experiences. We’ve seen F1 Sky Suites, a KrisFlyer cruise-to-nowhere and a specially-chartered points plane to Langkawi.
KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card members occasionally enjoy a 10% rebate on the number of miles required, which can be substantial depending on the experience. This is normally offered in limited quantity, so subscribe to The MileLion and get alerted when new deals go live.
Miles extension perk
If you ever wanted an example of UOB’s fetish for complicated T&Cs, look no further than the miles extension perk.
Simply put, KrisFlyer UOB Credit Cardholders can enjoy a one-time 12-month extension for KrisFlyer miles earned between 1 January to 31 December 2021.
Not so simply put, they’ll have to jump through a whole lot of hoops. This involves sending a registration SMS from August 2023 to December 2024 (yes, 2023 and 2024!), and calculating how many of expiring miles came from the KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card specifically.
Earn Month | Expiry Month | SMS submission period |
Jan 2021 | Jan 2024 | Aug 2023 to Jan 2024 |
Feb 2021 | Feb 2024 | Sep 2023 to Feb 2024 |
Mar 2021 | Mar 2024 | Oct 2023 to Mar 2024 |
Apr 2021 | Apr 2024 | Nov 2023 to Apr 2024 |
May 2021 | May 2024 | Dec 2023 to May 2024 |
Jun 2021 | Jun 2024 | Jan 2024 to Jun 2024 |
Jul 2021 | Jul 2024 | Feb 2024 to Jul 2024 |
Aug 2021 | Aug 2024 | Mar 2024 to Aug 2024 |
Sep 2021 | Sep 2024 | Apr 2024 to Sep 2024 |
Oct 2021 | Oct 2024 | May 2024 to Oct 2024 |
Nov 2021 | Nov 2024 | Jun 2024 to Nov 2024 |
Dec 2021 | Dec 2024 | Jul 2024 to Dec 2024 |
Keep in mind, this benefit is only available for up to 60,000 miles.
I’ll spare you the details, but if you want to understand just how convoluted this is, refer to the article below.
KrisFlyer UOB Account
The supposed “killer feature” of the KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card is its ability to earn a bonus 5-6 mpd when paired with the KrisFlyer UOB account. This sounds phenomenal, but I’d strongly advise you against it.
First of all, this account pays a measly 0.05% interest. With interest rates on the rise, that’s an almost derisory rate.
If you think you’ll make up the difference with miles, you should know that the KrisFlyer UOB account caps the bonus miles you can earn at a mere 5% of your monthly average balance.
For example, if you put S$50,000 inside the account, the maximum bonus miles you could earn each month is just 2,500 (5% of 50,000), which you’d hit after spending just S$500 on your KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card.
This means that unless you have a ridiculously high miles valuation figure, the opportunity cost is simply too high to be worth considering.
Fast track to KrisFlyer Elite Silver
The AMEX KrisFlyer Ascend has a fast track to KrisFlyer Elite Gold, but KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card members will have to settle for KrisFlyer Elite Silver.
Cardmembers who open their cards between 1 May 2021 and 30 April 2022 and spend a minimum of S$5,000 on SIA Group transactions or S$50,000 on all other retail transactions will receive an upgrade to KrisFlyer Elite Silver.
This is referred to as a “fast track”, but in reality is anything but. Qualifying cardholders will receive their status upgrade within 6 weeks from the last month of the first membership year. You could hit the qualifying spend on your first day, and still have to wait 13+ months to get your status!
Status earned through this “fast track” scheme is only valid for the first year; subsequently, you’ll have to requalify by flying at least 25,000 elite miles in a 12-month membership period.
All in all, it’s much ado about nothing because KrisFlyer Elite Silver has extremely weak benefits. Members receive:
- A 25% bonus on KrisFlyer miles
- Complimentary Standard Seat selection on Singapore Airlines and SilkAir
- Priority reservation waitlist
- Priority airport standby
- Discounted service fees
Forget about lounge access, priority boarding, priority check-in or additional luggage allowances. This is as basic as it gets.
Scoot Privileges
KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card members enjoy the following benefits when flying Scoot:
For principal cardholder | For companions (on same itinerary) | |
Complimentary priority check-in and boarding | ✔ | ✔ |
Additional 5kg luggage allowance with purchase of any baggage fare bundle | ✔ | ✔ |
Complimentary standard seat selection | ✔ | |
One-time booking flexibility waiver | ✔ | ✔ |
None of these are anything to get excited about, really. There’s no free checked bag, only a 5kg upsize when you purchase a bag allowance, and even though the complimentary seat selection could have been useful, it’s limited to the principal cardholder only and not his/her travel companions.
I’d say the most useful benefit is the one-time free booking change, which can be made online up to 4 hours before departure. Fare differences may apply.
To enjoy these benefits, be sure to book your Scoot tickets via this dedicated portal.
KrisShop Privileges
KrisFlyer UOB Credit Cardholders enjoy a single-use promo code KFUOBKS2022 that gives S$20 off a minimum spend of S$100 (before GST). Unfortunately, there is an extensive brand exclusions list.
2x S$15 Grab voucher to/from Changi Airport
KrisFlyer UOB Credit Cardholders will receive a biannual S$15 Grab voucher valid for rides to/from Changi Airport.
This can be redeemed once per half yearly (i.e Jan to Jun/ Jul to Dec), with the promo code KFUOBCC. Redemptions are capped at the first 1,000 uses per month.
2x S$15 off Changi WiFi
KrisFlyer UOB Credit Cardholders will receive a biannual S$15 ChangiWiFi voucher.
This can be redeemed once per half yearly (i.e Jan to Jun/ Jul to Dec). Cardholders can generate a e-redemption code by SMSing KFUOBCC<space>16-digit card number to 77862.
Redemptions are capped at the first 1,000 uses per month.
Complimentary travel insurance
Accidental Death | Medical Benefits | Travel Inconvenience |
S$500,000 | S$50,000 for medical evacuation | None |
Many cards offer complimentary travel insurance, but not all policies are made equal. I’ve done the analysis previously, and UOB’s policy is as bare bones as they come.
You have S$500,000 coverage for accidental death or disablement, and S$50,000 for medical evacuation. There’s no coverage for medical expenses, or even travel inconvenience. Lost your luggage? Flight delayed? This policy won’t pay anything.
Since it’s woefully inadequate as your primary cover, you’ll almost certainly need to get separate travel insurance.
Summary Review: KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card
With an average local earn rate and no bonus on foreign currency spending, who is the KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card suitable for? Someone who just wants to use one card for everything.
If you’ve been reading this website regularly, you’ll know that I’m staunchly against such an approach. Using a one-card strategy means leaving a lot of miles on the table, and earning sub-optimal returns on your spending.
Nonetheless, if you still insist on doing so, the KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card would help you make the best of a bad situation. I can’t think of any other general spending card with so many different bonus categories: dining, food delivery, online shopping & travel and transport will cover the bases for a lot of people.
Just be aware that of the 3 mpd you’ll supposedly earn, 60% of it (1.8 mpd) will only arrive 2-14 months later. It’s also well shy of the highest you could be earning for such transactions (4 mpd is the gold standard), but the lack of a cap could make this a useful card for big-ticket purchases.
Oh, and don’t expect too much in the way of Singapore Airlines benefits either. Although this is ostensibly marketed as a Singapore Airlines product, it’s really more of a Scoot card.
So that’s my review of the KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card. What do you think?
Overall Score | |
★★★1/2 | |
Ratings Guide | |
5 Stars ★★★★★ | An essential card for miles chasers, with few viable alternatives |
4 Stars ★★★★ | A very good card, although other equally good alternatives may exist |
3 Stars ★★★ | A decent card to round out your collection, but not absolutely essential |
2 Stars ★★ | Very limited use cases, and outperformed by most other cards |
1 Star ★ | Paperweight. Use for picking teeth or ninja stars |
Interesting point about the Krisflyer UOB account. It does link with the UOB PRVI too if you use that as your general spend card. I did some calculations and assuming a valuation of 1.8 cpm, your breakeven point for the Krisflyer UOB account is actually just over 1% interest p.a. (meaning to say, if your interest in your bank account is less than 1%, you could potentially earn enough miles with the Krisflyer UOB account to make up for it). At this falling interest rate environment, this could look more and more enticing. Calculations (I’m assuming you hit the 5%… Read more »
Isn’t the most important value of the UOB Deposit account that you get 5mpd on total annual card spend, if you maintain a balance of S$1000 per month? Yes the interest is tiny but the 5mpd on total annual card spend is >> than anything else I’ve seen period for losing interest on $1000 only — seem like the best miles deal. But I may be missing something?? https://www.uob.com.sg/personal/krisflyer-uob/credit/account.html?i_cid=pfs:sg:owned:int:site:na:li:na:na:na-evergreen:direct:na&vid=none
Regarding rounding, in my experience with the card, it’s at the calendar month level and not at the transaction level, regardless of what the T&Cs say. This applies at least for base miles – my accelerated miles are not in yet.
Miles are awarded based on the sum of all transactions posted in a calendar month, rounded down to the nearest $5, then divided by 5 and multiplied by 6.
Thanks for the data point! That would indeed be better. I do find it curious that uob says to receive the 3k first spend miles, you need to spend at least $5. That would suggest their system is set up in a way that it won’t recognise a transaction of less than $5 as a trigger for miles.
That said I don’t actually have the card so you probably know better than me… I suppose the ultimate test would be to make all your transactions for a given month less than $5!
That actually did happen, thanks in part to CB since I mainly use this card for SimplyGo. I had a few SimplyGo transactions last month, each individually less than $5, but in total more than $5. Miles still awarded.
KF UOB Credit Card: Terrible proposition made worse by UOB’s poor customer support. My wife has been struggling to get her bonus miles. After 3 calls and paying the annual renewal fee, 2 months later they “manually adjusted” 3000 bonus miles against what CS confirmed was a 18,000+ eligible spend. Here’s the problem with deferred bonuses when the system doesn’t work and CS is rubbish! 3 calls x 20 mins each, frustration of having to walk a different through the problem each time and despite promises to get back, no one does. Not worth the effort. Any suggestions on what… Read more »
Regarding the $20 rebate for Krisshop, I had to endure a horrific month to chase for it. At the time when I got my card and made the Krisshop spend, the terms were exactly as you quoted: “Cardholders enjoy an annual S$20 rebate on KrisShop purchases with a minimum spend of S$100 nett in a single transaction.” (I fortunately had kept a copy of the actual terms as proof). My spend fully met this condition. After making the purchase but before my rebate was credited, UOB (presumably at the behest of KF) unilaterally changed the qualifying spend to “S$100 nett… Read more »
Hi Aaron – on the “online shopping” qualifying spend, am I right in thinking that this must relate to “fashion” websites only falling within the merchant codes, rather than just general shops within the merchant codes (although hard to see how fashion falls into some of the merchant codes), so might exclude things like Amazon and Lazada? Reason being that the T&Cs define “Online Shopping Card Transactions” as those “Card Transaction(s) made at fashion websites that sells clothes, shoes, jewellery, accessories and bags as its main business activity including card-not-present transactions like ecommerce/mail/phone order transactions in local and foreign currencies,… Read more »
as long as it’s within the MCC it’s fine.
ok cheers!
Wondering if the amaze card does “convert” the spending at offline retail shops to online for UOB KF card?
I’m interested to know too about pairing Amaze and UOB KF. This is in the T&C: W.e.f. 1 March 2022, please be informed that transactions with transaction description “AMAZE* TRANSIT*” will be excluded from the awarding of KrisFlyer miles on the KrisFlyer UOB Credit Card.
Isn’t the most important value of the UOB Deposit account that you get 5mpd on total annual card spend, if you maintain a balance of S$1000 per month? Seems like the best miles deal (if you can spend $800 on SIA stuff + maintain $1000 balance on trivial interest). But I may be missing something?? https://www.uob.com.sg/personal/krisflyer-uob/credit/account.html?i_cid=pfs:sg:owned:int:site:na:li:na:na:na-evergreen:direct:na&vid=none